JCB secures multi-million pound deal with Travis Perkins

JCB secures multi-million pound deal with Travis Perkins

JCB secures multi-million pound deal with Travis Perkins

One of the UK’s largest builder’s merchants. Travis Perkins has invested in 500 new JCB machines worth more than £7 million for its Tool Hire division.

The company has bought a fleet of JCB mini excavators and One Tonne High Tip site dumpers to further strengthen its UK-wide tool hire business. This brings the company’s investment to more than 2,700 JCB machines in the past decade.

Supplied by JCB dealer Watling JCB, the new machines have been delivered to Travis Perkins’ vast network of 660 branches ready for use on construction and development sites across the country.

Watling JCB Managing Director Richard Telfer said: “This significant investment in JCB equipment continues a long-standing relationship with Travis Perkins. Over recent years we have continued to strengthen our aftermarket business to ensure we provide a market-leading service for Travis Perkins. This order supports our continued investment in enhancing the customer experience when dealing with Watling JCB.”

Travis Perkins Tool Hire Managing Director Catherine Gibson said: “As we continue to invest in our Tool Hire business it is important we work with suppliers who offer value for money and market-leading innovation for our customers. JCB clearly demonstrates its ongoing commitment to us and to our customers by delivering on both counts.”

Pictured (left to right) at JCB World Headquarters are: Travis Perkins Chief Executive Officer of General Merchanting Division Paul Tallentire, Travis Perkins Tool Hire Managing Director Catherine Gibson, JCB Group Managing Director Global Key Accounts Yvette Henshall-Bell, Watling JCB Managing Director Richard Telfer and Watling JCB National Account Director Mike Roby.
Pictured (left to right) at JCB World Headquarters are: Travis Perkins Chief Executive Officer of General Merchanting Division Paul Tallentire, Tool Hire Managing Director Catherine Gibson, JCB Group Managing Director Global Key Accounts Yvette Henshall-Bell, Watling JCB Managing Director Richard Telfer and Watling JCB National Account Director Mike Roby.

Travis Perkins Chief Executive Officer of General Merchanting Division, Paul Tallentire, and Tool Hire Managing Director, Catherine Gibson, visited JCB World Headquarters to see their new fleet of Excavators and Dumpers. The one tonne High Tip dumpers are part of a full line up of JCB site dumpers manufactured at JCB World Headquarters, Rocester, while the mini excavators are produced at JCB Compact Products, Cheadle, Staffordshire.

Northampton-based Travis Perkins is one of the largest suppliers to the UK’s construction industry, supplying the building trade for more than 200 years. It offers plant and equipment hire through all of its 660 branches, and stocks more than 100,000 product lines for trade professionals and self-builders.

Post source : J. C. Bamford Excavators Ltd

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