Steve Gibbs
DEMO DAYS RETURN
Will you attend this year?
by Service Dealer Editor, Steve Gibbs

With some manufacturer-organised dealer demo days back on the cards for late-summer, how keen are you to get back out there and attend?

 

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NEWS
RW CRAWFORD'S NEW DEPOT TO OPEN MONDAY
In Ropley, Hampshire

This week's WEB ONLY story is dealers RW Crawford have announced that their new branch at Ropley Business Park, Alresford will open on Monday 2nd August 2021.

 

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Crawford's Ropley depot opens Monday
IBCOS / CATALYST ANNOUNCED AS JOINT PLATINUM SPONSORS
Of 2021's Service Dealer Conference & Awards

Service Dealer are pleased to announce Ibcos and Catalyst Computer Systems as joint Platinum Sponsors of the 2021 Service Dealer Conference & Awards which returns to the Double Tree by Hilton Oxford Belfry this November.

 

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Adam Giles, Account Manager, Ibcos (2nd from right) presents Neale Hopley of Buxtons with their Forestry Machinery Dealer of the Year award at 2019's Service Dealer Awards - with Service Dealer owner Duncan Murray-Clarke (left) and comedian Charlie Baker (right)
LISTER WILDER SECURE JBM ARBORICULTURE PARTNERSHIP
Supplying products across all depots

Through importers DJB Machinery, Lister Wilder will be stocking and supplying JBM stump grinders from July 2021.

 

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Lee Hatton, groundcare area sales manager with some of the new JBM machines
GJR APPOINTED BY CAMPEY
New dealer

Campey Turf Care Systems has appointed Monmouth based GJR Machinery as their new dealer for South Wales, Mid Wales and Herefordshire.

 

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Geraint Richards of GJR Machinery
ALAMO ANNOUNCE CHANGE IN SEGMENT REPORTING
Split between two new divisions

Beginning with Q4 2021, Alamo Group say they will report business results in two new segments, namely, the Vegetation Management Division and the Industrial Equipment Division.

 

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Alamo Group have announced a change in segment reporting
BRITISH PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS CELEBRATES 70 YEARS
Returns in October

The British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival will be celebrating 70 years when the event is held on 9th and 10th October 2021 at Mindrum Mill, Northumberland

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British Ploughing Championships
SERVICE STAFF ARE ASSESSED FOUR TIMES A YEAR
Pay rates are performance related

Monitoring the performance of service and parts personnel on a regular basis is vital in the retention of skilled staff for the US dealership that employs over 2800 staff.

 

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RDO Equipment Co
FARMTRAC FULLY CHARGED FOR SHOW
All-electric compact tractor to be displayed

Farmtrac say their FT25G so impressed show founder Robert Llewellyn on his Fully Charged TV show last year, that it will be on display at Fully Charged LIVE UK in September. 

 

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Farmtrac FT25G
TECHNOLOGY PAYS OFF FOR GLENEAGLES
Supplied by dealers Double A

As Gleneagles enters the fifth year of its partnership agreement with John Deere, they say their adoption of the latest precision technology is paying off across their championship courses.

 

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Scott Fenwick, Craig Haldane (front centre & right) and members of Gleneagles’ greenkeeping and gardens team with John Deere and dealer Double A staff on the 18th fairway of The King’s Course.
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