About Us

Freeman Solutions Limited, the name behind the "Spares-Direct-2-U" brand was formed in 2004 by Managing Director Andy Freeman. After working for Yorkshire Switchgear, Merlin Gerin and Schneider Electric in the UK over a period of 18 years, Andy saw that there was a gap in the distribution market for a top notch supplier of spare parts - particularly for obsolete products - that traditional distributors did not cover in their portfolio.

The key to the solution was to make product information available to the customers.

Andy explains "Working as a Senior Manager within the Project & Services Division of Schneider Electric for a number of years showed me that the information available to customers about obsolete products and their spare parts was not as well developed as I would have liked - and certainly that was a feeling echoed by many customers. People that had bought products whilst they were in standard production through various buying channels, suddenly found that the item was 'no longer available' through those channels, and they just assumed that this was the case - full stop. However, in many instances, parts could still be procured.".

Spares-Direct-2-U has worked extremely closely with the manufacturers to put together a coherent data set on the older products that are still available, and published it via our website.