GAP Group
  • Compressors 1 10Mar

    GAP PLACE ORDERS FOR £10 MILLION ADDITIONAL PLANT

    GAP Group has placed orders for an additional £10million of plant which will be delivered over the next 4 months. The £10million order follows on from GAP’s £2million investment in January 2011 when GAP opened 6 lifting depots and the opening of GAP’s second purpose built non-mechanical depot in Warrington costing £1.5million, which is due to open in April 2011.

    The recent £10million expenditure equips GAP with additional fleet, rather than simply replacing or renewing older machines, thus showing the company’s commitment towards ensuring customers are provided with the newest and highest quality equipment available. A further £15million will be spent in 2011 on fleet renewal. GAP continues to invest more as a percentage of turnover than any of its competitors and the company’s recent purchase of unmanned plant, for delivery in the first financial quarter of 2011/2012, includes mini excavators, compressors, dumpers and rollers. This equates to over 400 pieces of plant; which will be distributed throughout GAP’s 59 depots across the UK.

    Joint Managing Director, Douglas Anderson, commented; “While many of our fellow tool and plant hirers are cutting back on expenditure and only renewing equipment, we are delighted to be moving forward by adding to our fleet in this difficult economic climate and to be able to provide our customers with exactly what they’re looking for. We always aim to exceed their expectations and we are positive that our recent investment will allow us to do so”.

    GAP’s procurement policy guarantees that it stays ahead of industry innovations and with welfare and environmental concerns becoming ever more important to customers, GAP’s procurement department is always looking out for respective safe and environmentally friendly alternatives. For example, the 60 rollers purchased from AMMANN were chosen as a result of their high health and safety standards and superior noise and vibration levels, while the mini excavators from Kubota are powered by a reliable, fuel effective and environmentally friendly Kubota diesel engine.

    Ken Stewart, Group Procurement Manager at GAP, commented; “Here at GAP we recognise that customers want the most recent and best quality machines available and that, above all, it’s crucial that we meet these requirements and we are very confident that adding to our fleet will lead to a great deal of customer satisfaction”.

    Ultimately, it is the company’s aim to ensure the provision of the latest product developments and so they will continuously look at renewing and replacing old equipment but more importantly adding to their fleet, with forecast purchase orders already placed for repeat quantities of mini-excavators and rollers for delivery by the end of September 2011.

    Also published in "International Rental news", avaialble at: http://www.khl.com/magazines/international-rental-news/detail/item62537/gap-invests-for-fleet-expansion/