Fruits of success for Impact
Handling in food and drink sector
J.O. Sims, one of the UK’s leading
suppliers of fresh fruit, fruit ingredients
and fruit snacks, has agreed a five-year,
full supply and maintenance contract
with Impact Handling. The exclusive
agreement sees J.O. Sims take delivery
of a new fleet of the latest generation
CAT® Lift Trucks, comprising reach trucks,
electric counterbalance and powered
palet trucks.
The new agreement is another success
for Impact, one which builds on its proven
food and drink industry expertise and
dedicated offerings for the sector.
Terry Kendrew, Managing Director
at Impact handling says: “We work
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extremely closely with our customers
in the food and drinks industry to fully
understand their challenges. By doing
so we are able to respond with uniquely
flexible and pro-active solutions that
support their operations where it really
matters.” Mr. Kendrew continues: “It’s
an approach that’s been met with a very
positive response from customers and
has resulted in considerable success for
Impact across the sector”. benefit from the new equipment and
J.O. Sims farm over 1,000 acres of
cherry, apple, peach, nectarine and
apricot orchards and are the country’s
largest supplier of cranberries and wild
blueberries. Their extensive packaging
and warehousing facilities in the UK will isn’t absolutely right for its role we are
support package.
James Young, Warehousing Manager at
J.O. Sims comments: “The Impact team
really have been brilliant and exceeded
all of our expectations, particularly with
their flexibility in supporting changes
to the requirements of the fleet early
in the new agreement.” He goes on to
say: “In busy periods if the equipment
nowhere near as productive, which is
something we no longer need to worry
about thanks to Impact.”
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