Leasing sales were up 24 percent year-on-year,
and made up €102 million of System Lift’s group total for 2008.
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Meanwhile, members invested €36 million in
increasing the organisation’s total fleet of lift platforms to
6,668, and increased staffing by 5 percent to reach a total of
430.
The results were announced at System Lift AG’s
annual conference, which was held in Schlosshotel Friedewald, near
Bad Hersfeld in Germany.
System Lift AG board chairman Leopold
Mayrhofer said: “I am delighted about the excellent results and
very proud of the companies we have a partnership with.”
He predicted that the recession will catch up
with the company in 2009, however, with 2008’s result unlikely to
be repeated.
The main thrust of next year’s leasing
strategy for System Lift AG will be the creation of clear rules for
member companies leasing assets to each other, including the
setting of standard internal lease prices. Sales staff will also
see extensive training in selling lease products.
• System Lift AG, founded in 2003,
is not a manufacturer, but helping other suppliers is at the heart
of what it does. It does so by signing partnerships – it has around
60 at present – with suppliers of personnel lift assets which can
benefit from System Lift’s 70 so-called ‘leasing centres’.
• Member companies receive share
dividends and rebates on asset costs from manufacturers which are
proportional to capital invested with the group.
• Assets leased include telescopic
work platforms, with a working height of between 10 and 40
metres.
• This year three new companies have
joined Systems’ partnership: Mobilift from Cologne, Autokrane
Schares from Bocholt and Arbeitsbühne Ziegler Lifting from
Aschaffenburg.
