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Bertram Rope visits Ransomes
Venues announced for 2017 Women’s World Cup
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have announced the five host grounds for the ICC Women’s World Cup in 2017
Bertram Rope, the great, great, great grandson of the founder of the Ransomes business back in 1784, together with his son Simon, daughter Amelia and Simon’s partner Louisa Knapp, visited Ransomes Jacobsen’s manufacturing facility in Ipswich as the guests of Managing Director Alan Prickett.
Over light refreshments, the group were given an overview of the business before embarking on a tour of the factory to see how today’s commercial mowers are manufactured.
Bertram Rope thanked Alan Prickett for his hospitality saying, “This was a wonderful experience. As a family, we are delighted that the company founded by my great, great, great grandfather is still thriving over 200 years later.”
Alan Prickett said that the company were delighted to have re-established links with the founder’s family.
The ECB has confirmed Somerset, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Lord’s will host the competition’s 31 matches starting on June 26th next year - with the Home of Cricket set to stage the final on July 23rd.
It will be the first time that the tournament has been held in England since 1993 when the home side beat New Zealand in the final at Lord’s, revisiting the scene of their triumph in 1973 in the first Women’s World Cup Final against Australia.
Steve Elworthy, ECB’s Director of Events said: “This is a very exciting time for the women’s game in this country and staging a Women’s World Cup here will really help drive interest and participation in women’s cricket at every level.”
“It’s critical we use this event to reach out to young children in particular, so we’ve moved the tournament start date to earlier in the summer - a decision which will help our host venues encourage attendance by engaging with schools in the build-up to the event.”
Clare Connor, ECB’s Director of England Women’s Cricket and
Clare Connor
Chair of the ICC Women’s Cricket Committee, said: “At a global level, the introduction of the ICC Women’s Championship has made our game more competitive and exciting than ever before.”
“It has created global context and meaning to all our ODI series whereby the result of every match has a direct impact on qualification for next summer’s World Cup.”
“In this country, last summer’s record-breaking attendances for the Women’s Ashes series showed there is a growing audience and
appetite for women’s cricket - we witnessed excellent crowds, including full houses at Chelmsford and Hove, coupled with growing media and commercial interest.”
“The launch of the new Women’s Cricket Super League here later this year will give the women’s game another significant fillip and help set the stage for what promises to be a fantastic showcase for our sport next summer.”
Lely business split creates new trading company
Lely’s agricultural and turfcare divisions have split, with a new trading company, Turfcare Technology, being formed
David Cole, managing director of the new Turfcare Technology, says the rationale behind the business separation was to create two independent businesses, each having the freedom to develop their own strategies and able to focus on growth in their own and respective markets.
“This process of evolution, while 8 I PC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2016
challenging during its implementation, places the Turfcare business, including Turfcare in Ireland and Denmark, in an ideal structure for growth in current market segments and as importantly, for any new ones, when they should come along.”
Since 1st January 2016, when Turfcare Technology came into effect, an approach has developed for the turf business to become part of Royal Reesink N.V., resulting in Lely and Reesink, with the full support of The Toro Company, signing a ‘letter of
intent’ for Reesink to acquire the Lely turf business.
Royal Reesink N.V. is a Netherlands based holding company specialising in the distribution and sale of capital equipment and allied support services. There are nineteen companies in the Reesink group. Significantly, this includes Jean Heybroek - the Toro distributor in the Benelux region of Europe. Jean Heybroek has enjoyed a business relationship with Toro for sixty years, with the same strong legacy that Lely has enjoyed as a Toro business
partner of some thirty-two years.
David confirms that, at this stage, this announcement is one of mutual intent to reach agreement for the change in the ownership of the Turf business. “While not finalised yet, this is seen as a further, positive opportunity for the future of the company’s turf activity. The ‘agreement of intent’ with Reesink will now move to the final stages of a due diligence process, with the completion of the transfer of ownership expected during the second quarter of 2016.”
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