Monday, October 29, 2007

Forklift Business

Forklift Manufacturers

There are many forklift manufacturers in the world nowadays, not least than 20 manufacturers. According to world statistics, Toyota group is the number no# 1 forklift manufacturer in the world since 2005, follow by Kion Group, Nacco, Crown and Mitsubishi & Caterpillar.

The consolidation of manufacturers have been so intense in the early 2000, whereby only the largest names can get the economical of skills. They can pour more resources and invest into more research and update their product. For those followers, as they are lack of resources therefore just assemble it but just have the cosmetic change.Customer today is more sophisticated and well informed of the latest product offered. They will do most of research before deciding on what forklift they will buy. Therefore, to offer a solely product solution to customers does not work well today.

The next thing we have to consider is to package forklift with finance, services, operators etc. This is like a one stop shop for the customer, where they can look for all his solution under one roof. You save customer time to source and look for others.

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