Makita held a Trade day at the Walton Hall (Mercure) Hotel in Warwickshire this week.

The company say they have in excess of 270 tools in their product portfolio, whilst at this event they were launching a further 30 new products.

The event began with a welcome and introduction to the day’s events by Mark Earles, Makita business development manager, who ran through a number of slides and spoke about the vast range of products they produce and highlighted the many new products on test throughout the day.

Attending were a cross section of industry professionals that included machinery dealers, contractors, service providers and end users. The delegates were spilt into seven groups to visit the seven demonstration workstations.

In most cases the new products offered, were centred around new improved performance and running times. Brought about by the ever-improving battery technologies. Makita’s new PDC01 back pack also offers a universal power system that can be used with most of their tools, increasing running times considerably.

Makita’s marketing manager Kevin Brannigan said the company were very excited about the new range of cordless garden products that they were launching and very pleased with the turnout of well over 70 plus delegates at the event.

Kevin was also keen to point out that they believe the success of Makita products was purely down to synergy between the products’ reliability, efficiency and performance which is largely driven by the development of the brushless motor technology and the ongoing advancement of battery design and performance.

Service Dealer's Laurence Gale trying out one of the new mowers this week

You can read more about the day and some of the products launched in the next issue of Service Dealer magazine.