Volvo opens depot for FM
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Factory-owned distributor Volvo Truck & Bus (South) has opened a £2m depot on Coventry's Middlemarch Business Park in the run-up to the launch of Volvo's new FM.
Built on a two-acre brownfield site, the outlet replaces [Premises in the city centre which the company had outgrown.
"Some of our customers are already established on the park, and it will be easier for other customers to reach us, and vice-versa, thanks to the motorway and trunk road network," says VT & B (South) managing director Alistair Robinson. The branch is near the M6 and M69, and is linked to the M1 via the Az15/M45.
The distributor's territory spreads as far as Croydon, Watford and Basingstoke, and now includes the former John R Billows Volvo businesses at Kettering, Bedford and Stoney Stanton. Duffields is taking over the former Billows operation in Peterborough. M C Truck & Bus of Maidstone has taken responsibil4 For the operation on the south coast, acquiring the activities at Southampton, Portsmouth, Andover and Burgess Hill.
Meanwhile, independent Volvo distributor Hartshorne has spent 21.5m on acquiring Volvo outlet Nottingham Truck & Bus and moving the Hartshorne business at Alfreton, Derbyshire, into new premises. NT & B used to be owned by Volvo itself. Both moves consolidate Hartshorne's position as Volvo's distributor for the West and East Midlands, and help bring Volvo's Vision 2000 programme closer to reality.