9th annual conference shows significant growth of PartnerLIFT rental association

During the 9th annual conference of the PartnerLIFT rental association on 9th of march at Hohenroda the new managing director Kai Schliephake has reported impressive growth to more than 100 attendees. More than 103 independent rental companies has already joined the network. More than 145 rental depots in 7 different European countries with ~ 1.500 employees have access to more than 15.000 rental machines in the common rental database. The total number of rental machines has been grown more than 25% in the last 12 months. Access platforms division has shown modest growth of ~ 10 % up to 7.500 aerial lifts. Construction rental and fork lift rental division has grown more than 50%. PartnerLIFT's Forklift division has more than 5.000 rental machines in its' fleet which includes nearly 1.000 Telehandlers. Beside more than 1.500 construction machines the database consist of more then 250 cranes. It's PartnerLIFT's goal to put each partner in a position to deliver all kinds of access equipment, general construction machines, forklifts and cranes to each construction site by using the PartnerLIFT network. "It's our plan that we want to expand our traditional access equipment network by adding new partners for construction rental, forklift rental and crane rental" Kai Schliephake has mentioned during the conference. Furthermore PartnerLIFT have established a new business plan for their European expansion. In the upcoming months the PartnerLIFT web site will be improved continuously. In the last 12 months the common website has produced more than 45.000 sales leads directly to its members. The new established advisory board of PartnerLIFT has taken the lead on the common purchasing of rental equipment for all members. Furthermore e new planning instruments for the members CAPEX has been introduced to get a reliable planning instrument for the group.