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BIRCHWOOD PRICE TOOLS MERGER
Power tool wholesaler, Price Tools, is being merged with Birchwood Anthony Smith and Sales
Products. The combined business will be called Birchwood Price Director Paul Simpson
Tools (BPT) and begins trading from April. retaining the same roles
Birchwood and Price Tools are both divisions of The BSS Group, with BPT, as does Price Tools General Manager/Director,
with complementary products and sharing many customers. Paul Nieduszynski. 85 staff work at Nottingham and 60 at
The business itself will be re-branded and restructured, with Birmingham, although some personnel will transfer to Nottingham,
Birchwood’s Nottingham site becoming the head office and main where the premises have recently been expanded.
distribution centre. Price Tools’ Birmingham site will become a flagship BPT will offer an expanded range of 20,000 products including
BPT branch, with further locations in St Albans and in Naas, Eire. power tools, hand tools and site equipment, and brands such as
BPT’s Head of Marketing, Chris Mellor-Dolman, told EHN that the Bosch, DeWalt, Defender, Makita, Scruffs and Van Vault. As a result of
respective management teams will remain, with Birchwood’s MD the merger, the sales force will double in size.
Fairview lifts Hire Network trophy HSS wins Hilti e-commerce award
The Epsom branch of specialist hirer Fairview Lifting Gear At the Show, Hilti (GB) Ltd presented an e-commerce award to HSS
Services has won the Hire Network Award, which rewards staff Hire. The award acknowledged HSS as Hilti’s largest e-commerce
service excellence at a specific depot. “Fairview staff do what partner for Great Britain, taking into account the amount of traffic and
they say they will, giving reliable, courteous service,” said Hire business they have created online over the last 12 months. Our photo
Network MD Barry Dean, who presented the Award during the shows HSS Commercial Director Phil Wolff (left), receiving the award
Show. Fairview, based in Essex, has a third depot in Liverpool. from Hilti GB MD Adrian Murphy.
Barry Dean is pictured (extreme right) with, from left, Fairview’s On the Show itself, Adrian comments, “it was a positive event during
Liverpool Depot Manager Rob Price, MD Jeff Hudson, Regional challenging times. The steady flow of
Account national and independent customers
Manager Kevin gave us a great opportunity to
Lewis and reinforce our relationships and we
Epsom Depot were also pleased with the business
Manager Sam return. Our Fleet Management sales
Warner. Hire at the 2009 Show were over 50%
Network Award higher than last year’s, bringing to
runner-up was 80 the number of hirers that are
Mark 1 Hire’s enjoying the benefits of one monthly
Southend payment in return for the latest Hilti
branch. products and services.“
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