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Vehicle tracking specialist Quartix has announced it has more than doubled its new fleet tracking installations in the UK in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period last year.
The company is confident of registering further strong growth in both sales and installations in the second half, and expects sales growth of at least 60% over the year as a whole. Turnover is expected to reach £8million.
Commenting on the six-month performance, Quartix managing director, Andy Walters, ... [more]
Chaps, a Cambridgeshire company specialising in mechanical services has equipped its transport fleet with Quartix real-time vehicle tracking, and as a result is benefiting from significant savings through the fleet’s more efficient use.
Knowing the precise location of its 44 cars and vans, and mobile staff, is essential to the firm. This – and the fact a previous system proved unreliable – was the main reason it opted for Quartix’s 24-hour online tracking. Another was the system’s ability to ... [more]
The unique qualities of Sadolin Quick Drying Woodstain have delivered a first class finish at the exclusive Ingliston Country Club and Equestrian Centre in Renfrewshire, where timber clad buildings are being protected from the extremes of the Scottish weather.
As well being able to withstand demanding Scottish winters, the buildings need to look attractive too as the top flight equestrian centre is often in the spotlight, holding national level competitions and playing host to TV crews broadc... [more]
Quartix reports that more than 50 per cent of its overall sales are now derived from its high-specification pay-as-you-go vehicle tracking product.
The company attributes the product’s success to fleet managers’ nervousness over the future viability of some competitor companies and a reluctance to enter into long-term, binding contracts at a time of uncertainty.
Andy Kirk, sales and marketing director, said: “The recession has seen the collapse of, or problems at, many telematics companies... [more]
At the end of last year, the UKTFA announced to members that from 2010 they would require either UKAS-accredited ISO 9001 quality management certification or BM TRADA product certification as a condition of membership.
Members of the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) have taken the decision to transfer their certification under the former UKTFA Q-Mark and Q Mark Plus schemes to the new BM TRADA Q-Mark for Timber Frame.
The former schemes have been suspended, but UKTFA members have bee... [more]
L. Lynch Plant Hire is holding a series of Quick Hitch Safety Road Shows to highlight the benefits of its new hitches and to address safe on-site working practices - particularly when using different types of quick couplers - with all appropriate staff including both equipment users and non-operator personnel.
L. Lynch Plant Hire has marked its switch to new generation dual pin capture quick hitches by calling on other construction industry personnel to help improve site and equipment safety ... [more]
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