Parkway Celebrates 25-years with Takeuchi
The team at Parkway Plant Sales in Stockport recently celebrated 25 years as a Takeuchi dealer. Reaching this major milestone is significant in the company’s history; Parkway Plant Sales was set up in 1999 to sell the new Takeuchi excavators that had just started to arrive on UK shores. They saw the potential having heard only good reports about machine design and performance.
The new Parkway team stepped into the world of machine sales and never looked back. From the start the Parkway ethos was “to be a machinery dealer that looked after the smaller sized customer – the smaller owner operators/ plant and tool hire taking first steps into compact plant,” says Philip Oldham, Managing Director of Parkway Plant.
With more than 3800 machine sales delivered over twenty-five years, Parkway’s success stretches across the Northwest with customers big and small.
Parkway recall the early days when innovative customers were willing to try something different, that proved to be so much better. The machine from the get-go was totally reliable, backed by a supportive local team at Takeuchi in Rochdale who were eager to please this new customer base. Parkway seized the opportunity to convert customers who were willing to try something new and the brand was on its way.
Over the years having a leading brand like Takeuchi has really helped expand the Parkway sales business; additional major franchises are now on-board including Belle, Stihl and CNF Mini Tracked Dumper, Vibromax amongst many. 25-years has seen ups and downs in the market and consistently new products that continue to impress. The product range has gone from 4 or 5 models to now more than 20 models from 1 to 15-tonnes.
Highlights of course include Mr Takeuchi breaking the ground, shovel in hand, in 2016 to kick-off Parkway’s groundworks for the new purpose-built showroom facility in Bredbury, Stockport. To celebrate Parkway’s 20th anniversary the team visited Takeuchi in Japan and had a very special one-to-one Q&A session with Mr Takeuchi; what an insight with a genuine pioneer for our industry. Mr Takeuchi in 1971 invented the World’s First Compact Tracked Excavator, and the rest is history.
25 years marks a major milestone, Parkway right from the start became an important champion for the Takeuchi brand across the North-West and really helped propel sales to record levels. They remain one of Takeuchi UK’s largest dealerships, have won Dealer of the Year a record seven times and have really set the standard for Takeuchi Dealerships nationwide.
”“Parkway Plant’s 25-years with Takeuchi has been a great journey. We are happy to have one of best excavator brands on the market and very pleased that we have helped put Takeuchi on the map across the North West”
Pictured: centre Philip Oldham, Managing Director Parkway Plant, left Andy Buckley Parkway Plant Sales and right Daisuke “Yana” Yanagisawa, Managing Director Takeuchi Mfg. UK Ltd.,
