VALTRA has appointed two new dealers in South-west Scotland: Shire Agri-Hires and Cam Engineering.

RECO has purchased Strautmann UK Ltd and is now the sole importer of Strautmann machinery into the UK.

WHO better understands the maintenance, repairs and parts service needs of farmers and other tractor owners than someone who operates a fleet of them across the country? That's the logic behind a new enterprise - DLC Equipment - started by David Lloyd Jones at Colwyn Bay in Conwy; a new dealership supplying and servicing Landini farm tractors across north Wales.

BUILDING a business fit for a new generation is the aim of a new venture in South Wales that sees an agricultural engineering business return to the new tractor market. Lanes Agricultural is the farm machinery business of Lanes Garage, based at Llanvetherine, near Abergavenny, Gwent, and the newly-appointed sales and service dealer for Landini farm tractors.

AN ABERDEENSHIRE farm machinery dealership has come of age by starting to sell new agricultural tractors for the first time. As a fully-fledged sales and service dealer for McCormick, Kirktown Machinery, at Westerton of Pitarrow, near Laurencekirk, is set for expansion.

JOHN O'Groats machinery dealer JT Cormack is looking forward to a boost for its business with the company's appointment as sales, service and parts dealer in the Highlands for the McCormick tractor range.

LANDINI tractor owners in mid-Wales and Shropshire are being supported by the appointment of a new dealer to the Italian marque's sales and service network.
Beddoes Machinery Sales is run by Brian and Paul Beddoes, who come from a farming family and have 20 years' experience supplying machinery.

FARM machinery dealers keen to base new business opportunities on providing a high standard of service and parts supply are turning to the McCormick tractor range to give their operations a boost. They are also bolstering the nationwide coverage of dealers backing the McCormick range with local sales, parts and service.

KUHN Farm Machinery has extended and restructured its product support function in Great Britain with the deployment of six regionally based personnel to complement two further headquarters-based staff.

KUBOTA has further strengthened its UK dealer network with the appointment of Rod Gaskin (Farm Equipment) Ltd as a Kubota tractor and groundcare dealer for North Hampshire and West Sussex.

SOMERSET-based John Deere dealer Kings Farm Machinery of Dulverton has recently been purchased by James Mason Ltd of Chudleigh, the leading John Deere agricultural machinery and groundscare dealer in Devon.

A DORSET agricultural engineer is preparing for a boost to his business after winning the local franchise for one of Britain’s leading farm tractor suppliers.

FROM September 1, Amazone and Krone will go their separate ways in Great Britain.

JOHN Deere dealer Farol Ltd is now open for business at its new branch on the Holmbush Industrial Estate at Midhurst in West Sussex.

SAME Deutz-Fahr’s penetration of the Eastern Counties has now been further strengthened by the appointment of Wisbech-based Bennett & Tegerdine as a Deutz-Fahr dealer.

THE Same Deutz-Fahr Group has ensured the marketing continuity of the entire range of Deutz-Fahr drum mowers, balers and bale wrappers for the next two seasons.

MCCORMICK has signed up five more sales and service dealers to back-up its growing tractor range.

MILTON COMMON, Oxfordshire-based Farol Ltd has been awarded the John Deere territory vacated by John Seale Ltd in the South of England.

AGCO has strengthened its position in Hampshire and parts of Sussex with the appointment of John Seale Ltd to sell Fendt and Valtra tractors, along with Massey Ferguson combines in specific areas of the counties.

THE Argo Group has set up a new company to handle sales, distribution and after-sales support of Landini, McCormick and Valpadana tractors in Britain.

CUMBRIA-based John Deere dealer Taylor & Braithwaite Ltd has been appointed sole UK importer for Veenhuis, Holland’s market leader for slurry injectors and tankers, including disc, trailing shoe and arable machines.

DEUTZ-Fahr has added new dealers in Suffolk, Hampshire and North Yorkshire to further strengthen the brand. 

THE addition of a tractor range to the Claas franchise, and the increasing growth of its other businesses, has resulted in Oliver’s separating its franchises into two separate companies.

BEAULIEU, Hampshire-based Dovey Ltd has been awarded the McCormick tractor franchise for a trading area that extends from Southampton to Weymouth and from Shaftesbury to Salisbury.

J RILEY, of Attlebridge, near Norwich, has been appointed sales, service and parts agent for Valtra Tractors.

SAME Deutz-Fahr UK’s dealer network now benefits from the addition of three new dealers – all of which have been awarded the Deutz-Fahr franchise.