Steadplan takes over Croft Fleet
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LANCASHiRE-BASED MAN service dealer Steadplan has taken over the franchise in Leeds from Croft Fleet Maintenance following an asset purchase.
The deal, struck late last week, makes Leeds the third Steadplan site, along with the MAN service dealership in Clitheroe and an MAN and Renault Trucks workshop in Rochdale.
Steadplan has taken on 38 employees – including 21 technicians, which brings the total people employed by the group to approximately 100 – and added the isuzu Truck (UK) franchise.
MD Jim Smith says having successfully opened the Rochdale centre 18 months ago, Steadplan is delighted to have the opportunity to acquire a Leeds operation with an existing MAN customer base. “in terms of our own expansion, this seems to us to be an appropriate and natural progression.” Andy Turner, MAN head of UK network development, says that when Croft Fleet Maintenance made its decision to sell, MAN was pleased an existing dealer was able to get involved.
“it gives us and all MAN operators a smooth and seamless continuation of our national network provision, and further simplifies communications with the slowly-reduced investor numbers in our private capital dealer group,” he says.
“We know from past performance that Steadplan will invest into its new Leeds business to offer both local and transient MAN customers a first-class support service.”