The new kid on the block for supplying and servicing Bobcat’s impressive range of vineyard-friendly machines and attachments is Versatile Equipment Ltd. Versatile Equipment, which has been trading since 2003, is now the authorised Bobcat dealer for Kent, Surrey, Essex and East and West Sussex as well as Greater London. Customers old and new are promised a warm welcome at the company’s expanded headquarters on the Hornet Business Estate in Borough Green, featuring a revamped customer reception and dedicated showroom, together with parts, service, warehouse, administration and sales departments. Lee Chater, Sales and Marketing Director, said that as well as expanding the headquarters, the company had recruited new sales and customer support staff. “We made similar improvements at our hydraulic repair company, HPS in East Grinstead, to provide an increased service for local customers in this part of our new territory,” he explained. “Eighteen months on from our appointment at the beginning of 2021 we are enjoying the relationship with Bobcat, helping to significantly increase the company’s share of the agriculture and viticulture, construction, rental, landscaping, waste management and other markets in London and the south east.”
Next Is Now
Under its new Next is Now initiative, Bobcat has entered the European wheel loader market for compact wheel loaders and small articulated loaders, as well as launching new generation R-Series compact loaders and R2-Series five and six tonne mini-excavators. The company has also added a full range of new light compaction machinery, developed in collaboration with the Ammann Group. Also new is an expanded line of new generation agricultural specification telehandlers, all Stage V compliant and with lifting heights from six to eight metres and capacities of 2.6 tonnes to 4.3 tonnes.
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Next is Now As of 1 January 2021, Doosan Bobcat EMEA appointed Versatile Equipment Ltd with sole responsibility in the south east for sales and service of the market-leading range of Bobcat skid-steer and compact track loaders, mini-excavators, telehandlers, compact wheel loaders, light compaction and attachments. Bobcat has also entered the European wheel loader market for compact wheel loaders, where it has introduced the L75 and L85, and small articulated loaders (L23 and L28).
Light weight, Big Lifter
Small articulated loaders can take on a multitude of big challenges in small spaces, while disturbing the ground as little as possible. Bobcat’s nimble
