THE ability to demonstrate value for money and provide excellent after-sales service, has won truck specialist Locators new business with Portsmouth-based Lucy Housewares.

The new trucks will be used in the company's 50,000 sq ft warehouse for off-loading raw material, moving goods around the site, collecting finished product from the end of line and loading it onto the company's fleet of vehicles. Around 12,000 tons of polymer is used by the company each year and it is converted into a range of household items such as bins, buckets and bowls.

Operations manager, Ken Mott said: "Locators put together a package for us which was not only very attractive but was backed by the assurances of the company's excellent after-sales service."

Lucy Housewares is part of Plysu, manufacturers of plastic containers and other products for industrial and domestic use. Established in 1945, and with a current turnover of £175 million, Plysu was last year acquired by the South African packaging company, The Nampak Group, one of the largest packaging groups in the Southern Hemisphere with a turnover exceeding £800 million.

PICTURE: Lucy Housewares' operations manager Ken Mott with John Griffiths from Locators.

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