Devon Conversions goes Continental
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• Welfare specialist Devon Conversions plans to break into the international market within the next year, helped by its new BS5750 status.
Only 20 conversions a year have been exported until now, all by manufacturers. Now it plans to export direct, aiming for about 50 units in the first year, and it will be looking for agencies in the Middle and Far East, and possibly Africa.
The company also plans to font) links with some Continental bodybuilders by the end of this year, with the bodybuilders and Devon Conversions selling each other's products, and is expanding its workforce to cope with an anticipated 10% growth in production.
In 1990 it produced 762 units with a turnover of Otn.
Managing director Gareth Haylett attributes the company's recent success to its move away from its minibus work to welfare and ambulance work. During 1991 be plans to increase turnover to £3.6rn by continuing this trend.
So far this year Devon has an order book worth L950,000, including a £326,000 order for 35 ambulances for the North West Regional Health Authority. Orders could be boosted by a new product range, including a 12-seater minibus conversion of Volkswagen's T4 Transporter.