Invest in Tomorrow: Building on the Vision of Our Founder

At Pistol Group, our journey has always been guided by the forward-thinking philosophy of our original founder, F. J. Pistol. In his message to industry leaders many years ago, he reminded us that progress and profit can only be sustained through growth, and that growth demands one essential ingredient—investment. His words, “Invest in Tomorrow,” continue to resonate with us today.

For Mr. Pistol, investment was never just about financial returns. It was about reinvesting in innovation, tools, and people to secure long-term success. He believed that true progress comes from looking ahead, preparing for change, and ensuring every achievement today builds the foundation for tomorrow.

That vision remains at the heart of everything we do. As we navigate new challenges and opportunities, we remain committed to the principle of “Invest in Tomorrow”—ensuring that we deliver higher productivity, smarter solutions, and a sustainable future for our clients, our teams, and the communities we serve.

Invest in Tomorrow
A Message from F. J. Pistol
Embassy’s Managing Director

Progress makes for profit, but to sustain either needs a wider operation—economic growth.

As the word ‘growth’ alone suggests, this wider operation means change. Change means investment.
Briefly, a company must obviously produce something superior to its competitors, or something as good—but more economically. In either case, the object is for the end product to command market preference.

If the plan succeeds, progress is made and so is profit. But what are the ingredients that underly the success of such a plan?

High on the list are the essentials of inventiveness, incentive and investment.

Fortunately, today one can often avail oneself of the inventiveness of others. Increased profits are sufficient incentive. But investment is the first action that must be taken to ensure the ultimate success.

The indispensability of investment is not always clear to the manufacturer, faced with the problem of economically producing goods of better quality in greater quantity.

Yet, a glance at any industry geared to the mass production economy of today will show the necessity of investment. Without investment in the high powered, high speed, accurate tools of production the small labour forces in so many industries could not produce their high output.

The chain reaction is constant. As each investment is realised, so the profit it produces can be partially re-invested against the future—if progress is to continue.

In a mass production economy the re-investment of the savings arising from past investment in tools of production, is the implementing necessity for growth. Without it, progress comes to a halt.

Some still believe in the adaptation of an old machine to fit a new need and, indeed, make profits without investment.

But this path of progress is short and leads to disaster. The profit ratio is low and, although it may temporarily sustain a company, it must inevitably leave it without investment capital to replace the machine when it eventually becomes uneconomical.

Investment in modern tools results not only in profits, but in savings which can be used for re-investment against the future.

It brings higher productivity—it ensures that there is a future.