000821 - Exec News 1 26/6/09 14:23 Page 2
Brandon extends its training offering JCB wins Bo-Rent order
Brandon Hire has launched an extended range of The Dutch-based hirer,
external training programmes designed to combat Bo-Rent, has placed an order
what it terms ‘tick box training’. National Training with JCB’s Light Equipment
Manager, Jim Maccall, said: “There is a tendency for Division worth almost £500,000. The deal is for 290 machines including rammers,
people to attend a training course to simply ‘tick the forward vibratory plates and reversible vibratory plates.
box’. However, we recognise that there is a marked JCB Sales Operations Director, Chris Spring, said this represents the single
difference between ‘attending’ and ‘successfully largest order to date for the Division, which recently began manufacturing at the
completing’ a course.” £7m JCB Attachments factory in Uttoxeter in a bid to grow its share of the light
Courses use real-life situations and equipment to compaction equipment market. The range, produced under the JCB Vibromax
facilitate learning in a more engaging manner outside brand, includes vibratory plate compactors, reversible plate compactors and rapid
a typical classroom environment. Topics cover a wide blow tampers.
range of construction related and Health & Safety Bo-Rent started life as a hardware store in Amsterdam in 1974 and has grown
issues, with courses being held at more than 70 into a major hirer of equipment to the construction industry with 65 depots in
locations across the UK. On-site training is also Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. It employs more than 350 people.
available. An encrypted web-based database for
records management has been launched, which can
Camon prepares to celebrate
be accessed by the individual and their employer to
store and verify their training history.
Tracmaster, which manufactures the Camon
range of grounds care equipment, celebrates its
25th anniversary in August and to
commemorate the event it has launched a
simple to enter competition at its web site,
www.tracmaster.co.uk. The prize is a Camon
C8 rotavator worth more than £2,000.
The Burgess Hill-based company employs
18 people, more than half of whom have chalked
up 12 years’ service, with several having worked
there for 20 years or more. Founder and MD
Stephen Pitt says that the anniversary has acted
as a catalyst for expansion. Initiatives include the
appointment of 50 new dealers in the UK and Ireland, a re-designed web site with
on-line shopping due to go live in the autumn, and three new products including a
hydraulic rotavator, multi-purpose tiller and a portable twin-chute chipper/shredder.
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