About Us

Who We Are

Founded in 2007 by James G McCoy and his daughter Colleen, JG McCoy is a proud family business, dedicated to creating “new inventions for old problems” in the construction industry.

The company’s focus on innovation and pro-activity was there right from the beginning. As Colleen says: “My Dad handed me a device he’d just created and said ‘let’s take it to market!’”

That device turned out to be the game-changing, highly commended Kicker Bracket, which began production in 2008, and is now one of the company’s most popular products.

Not that the process was easy. When it came to getting a new product to market, James and Colleen were unknowns. They had to convince the right people to back the idea, make the tools, manufacture the parts, patent the design…and then, persuade contractors to work with the result!

Their efforts were worth it, as in 2008 JG McCoy won a high commendation Construct award for innovation and best practice.

Continuing their wave of innovation, the Box Bead was added to the company’s product range in 2009, followed by FAB safety bench designs in 2016. Safety and quality are always at the forefront of JG McCoy designs, with finished products often improving upon – or setting completely new – standards.

From their own experience in the construction industry, James and Colleen have always understood the value and importance of collaborative partnerships. They have always been proud of the fact that their products have opened the doors to partnerships between manufacturers, suppliers, and contractors.

JG McCoy continues to be driven by James and Colleen’s unending passion for quality, safety, and sustainability in every product they create.

CREATING SOLUTIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

Our Vision

We are a family run business with over 40 years experience in the construction industry.

Our patented products and award winning kicker system have been developed from the perspective of the tradesman; our end-user, in hand with the contractor’s need to reduce project costs and timescales but without sacrificing quality.

Our Mission

Our continuing focus and commitment, from each products’ development through to their delivery, forms the basis of what we do and what our customers know: we are here to aid the trades.

Our Values

Everything we do at J G McCoy is based upon our company ethos ‘aiding the trade’. This approach ensures that each one of our products introduces the best standard possible to the Construction Industry as well as improving site safety practices.

With a focus on innovation, our award winning Kicker System, Box Bead and FAB Bench Range delivers higher quality standards and improved safety and sustainability to construction projects. Whether high-profile or small works; we are equipped and stocked to easily provide direct dispatch to all UK projects.

Our Team

We work hard for your success

CEO

James McCoy

James knows from all his years of experience in the Construction Industry that certain areas of works are problematic to build and lack a quality standard. It’s clear, it’s not effective and everyone grapples with it. Seeing the change in the Industry’s vision to directly improve its safety systems and quality was an opportunity not to be missed. “In all my years in the building trade, I could see solutions to these problems and designing a system/product would transform from these cumbersome, slow and costly ways to safe, reliable and cost effective best practice. This is evident from our Kicker System, which offers an attractive solution to a difficult detail in R C Framework. These are problems and I can invent a solution.”

Managing Director

Colleen McCoy

Colleen graduated in Archaeology from Southampton University, taking up the challenge of marketing and building a business was daunting but possible with the strong family unit and support from our manufacturers, tool makers and forward looking contractors.

We went site to site to convince project managers, steel fixers, shuttering carpenters and plasterers to win them over to the new ways. We played the long game from the ground up, which is paying off now as the original site teams enquire into the latest news. We supply a range of new products and confidently believe that these will make it easier, faster and cost efficient to the contractors.