UniCarriers Europe GmbH is growing: with effect from 3rd February 2014, Dutch forklift dealer Crepa Group will belong to the Company that emerged from the merger of Atlet, Nissan Forklift and TCM. With this acquisition UniCarriers, which was founded in 2011, strengthens its market position and ensures greater long-term capacity use on its European manufacturing sites. Crepa was previously part of Peinemann Holding.
“The takeover of Crepa is very important for our strategy on the European market. In the coming months, we want to continually expand our network of distributors and dealers both in Germany and across Europe through further acquisitions,” Keiji Ikeda, President of UniCarriers Europe, justifies the purchase. The Crepa group will operate as an independent company under the UniCarriers umbrella. No restructuring is planned; the management and all 175 employees will be taken on. Reasons for the present acquisition include the good market position of Crepa and the associated expansion of its distribution networks as well as the long-term higher capacity use of the factories in Sweden and Spain. In the future, Crepa will buy warehouse trucks and counterbalance trucks from here.
Crepa has operated as reseller for Catlift since 2005. Prior to this, the company worked for Nissan Forklift for 19 years. In addition to the sale of forklifts, Crepa has an extensive service and maintenance range as well as forklift leasing and short-term hire solutions. The headquarters are located in Rijswijk near Rotterdam.
About UniCarriers
The UniCarriers Group is a global developer and manufacturer of industrial trucks and offers solutions with load capacities from 350 to 10 000 kg. The flexible and individually customisable transport solutions for logistics and warehouses are manufactured at the company’s production facilities in Sweden, Spain, Japan, China and the USA. Distribution is carried out both through specialist retailers and directly to end customers by an experienced team of sales experts. Central buyers are the automotive, construction, electronics, food, logistics and pharmaceutical sectors as well as heavy engineering and the processing industry.
The UniCarriers Group was created in 2011 from the mergers of the brands Nissan Forklift, TCM and Atlet. Today, the company is headquartered in Tokyo with branches in Europe, America and Asia. Its European headquarters are located in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf. In the 2013 financial year, the Group employed 5208 people worldwide and achieved a turnover of 1.314 billion Euros.
Corporate Contact
Tobias Laxa • UniCarriers Europe GmbH
Mollsfeld 10 • 40670 Meerbusch
Phone: +49 (0) 2159-9259 012
E-Mail: tobias.laxa@unicarrierseurope.com
Internet: www.unicarrierseurope.com
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Picture: The corporate head office of Crepa is in Rijswiskk. The Dutch forklift dealer has been operating under the umbrella brand of UniCarriers since February 2014.
