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UK based Lavendon, the world’s largest powered access rental specialist opened its new headquarters building today in Lutterworth.
The purpose built offices will house the staff of both the Lavendon Group and Lavendon UK (renamed Lavendon Access Services).

The new building is located to the rear of Midland Court, the trading estate (office estate?) where Lavendon rented its first small office unit in 1992, after it was formed to take over Nationwide Access.

Over the years the company has taken on additional units to house its growing staff and had ended up with offices splattered all over the estate.

The company will retain some office units to house the Lutterworth based Nationwide Access staff.

The new building was officially opened by Rugby player Neil Back, a member of the England team that won the world cup in 2003 and former player with the Leicester Tigers.

He cut the Lavendon blue ribbon, joined by group chief executive Kevin Appleton, Lavendon UK’s Andy Wright, Maarten Mijnlieff head of Gardemann in Germany and Ivan Papell of DK Rental Spain.

New Corporate identity

Following the official opening the company announced a completely new corporate identity, and rationalisation plan, cutting the number of trading names from the current 12 to four in Europe and one in the Middle East.

In the UK Rise Hire, the van mounted lift rental company, acquired last year, will be merged with Nationwide Access/Skylift. The Rise and Nationwide-Skylift brands will be dropped in favour of Nationwide Access. Self propelled booms will continue to be painted blue, while road going lifts – Van mounts -Truck mounts and trailer mounts will be a slightly warmer version of Gardemann Yellow,delivery vehicles will continue to be blue with yellow signwriting.

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