Group Structure
Explore the businesses that make our offering so strong
Discover how our vision of creating the industry’s strongest asset management and engineering services proposition has driven our expansion and acquisition of some truly great businesses.
The activities described below are an effective way to illustrate the primary activities for many of our businesses. However, our ability to support your business in a way that’s tailored and personalised means that we can deliver whatever you need across all activities.
Briggs Equipment is an asset management and engineering services specialist that has transformed the contract hire of industrial machinery. It is the exclusive national distributor in the UK for the Hyster and Yale ranges of materials handling equipment. In Ireland, Briggs Equipment represents the Hyster brand. Briggs enjoys many other strategic partnerships with suppliers that provide industrial cleaning, aerial access, groundworks, agricultural plant and machinery that offer customers a total solution.
As London’s number one forklift company, Hiremech prides itself on providing fast, effective and affordable support to businesses across the capital and South East region. As well as being London’s exclusive Hyster forklift dealer, Hiremech provides a range of additional services such as comprehensive engineer support and materials handling training courses.
With more than 25 years’ experience, 100 staff, 30 service engineers and over 1,000 forklift trucks on hire at any one given time, Hiremech is here to help!
From its sites in Conwy and Oswestry, Gwynedd Forklifts provides a wide range of high quality materials handling solutions to customers from across Wales and England.
With a strong commitment to asset management and engineering service support, Gwynedd Forklifts has built a fantastic reputation for supporting businesses of all sizes.
In addition to the Hyster forklift range, Gwynedd also supplies leading warehouse, cleaning and access products.
Operating from three sites in Amersham, Dewsbury and Southampton, Forkway is one of the UK’s leading materials handling solutions providers and has supplied industrial equipment and expert engineering services to customers since 1961.
Forkway offers a comprehensive range of materials handling equipment including forklift hire, forklift fleet, used forklifts and more, as well as providing local service support from qualified service technicians. In addition, Forkway can also offer design, supply and installation of new and used racking systems tailored to customer requirements.
Situated in the heart of Glasgow, Northern Forklift is one of Scotland’s leading materials handling solutions providers. Since its foundation in 2000, the business has gone from strength to strength and has established partnerships with businesses of all sizes including many of Scotland’s leading companies.
To complement the Hyster forklift range, Northern Forklift offers a wide range of additional products, including cleaning equipment, access platforms and warehouse products. Northern Forklift also provides a number of specialist industrial services, including warehouse planning, project management, engineering support and forklift driver training.
With over 50 years materials handling experience to call upon, Neckar Forklifts understand how to lift, store and move goods. From forklift sales, hire, driver training, all makes service, parts, fleet management and warehouse planning, we provide total solutions. Neckar Forklifts has two convenient locations – a short distance from London’s Heathrow Airport and in Castleford, West Yorkshire – serving the North of England and Scotland
Maxim GB Forklifts is the sole official importer and distributor of Maximal materials handling equipment in the UK & Ireland.
We provide a full range of support services to our dealer network including parts, technical support and marketing.
Maximal is a brand recognized all over the world, appreciated for high quality, high safety standards and low operating costs. The mission of the Maximal brand is to strive for sustainable development in the field of product quality and after-sales service, as well as to provide solutions with the highest quality / price ratio.
Briggs Defence boasts a proud and extensive history of directly supplying capital equipment, unparalleled Engineering Capability, and Mission critical Assurance services to the UK Defence. This deep-seated knowledge and experience are now directly accessible to the wider defence industry, offering a transformative advantage through agility, resilience, and Innovation together with a proven ability to deliver at pace.
Balloo Hire Centres has been providing Northern and Southern Ireland’s business and domestic markets with plant and tool hire since 1987. During this time the hire fleet has grown to nearly 10,000 units across a product range of more than 650 items, which makes it one of the largest and most versatile ranges in the industry. Balloo also provides a wide range of additional services, including equipment repairs, delivery and collection, thorough examinations and site surveys.
Balloo’s continued growth over the years means that it now operates from a network of locations with delivery available across the island of Ireland.
Laois Hire is one of Ireland’s largest plant and tool hire businesses. From several sites across the Republic of Ireland, Laois Hire has developed a strong reputation over 20 years for delivering high quality plant hire services and establishing lasting relationships with a diverse customer group featuring businesses of all sizes. Laois Hire has also provided vital services to many of Ireland’s key infrastructure projects in recent years, including the development of Ireland’s motorway network and the construction of the International Terminal 2 building at Dublin Airport. With its comprehensive range of plant machinery, service led approach and Ireland wide coverage, Laois Hire is here to support your business.
Supplying powered access equipment across Ireland, Aerial Platform Hire specialises in enabling safe working at height for customers of all sizes in the industrial and commercial sector. From Mallow in the southwest and Clane, just outside Dublin, we ensure that compliance and safety are at the top of the agenda. Whether you’re carrying out spot checks, scheduled maintenance or building improvements, the importance of using the right equipment must never be under-estimated.The short term hire of mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) is our way of keeping you and your employees safe.
Established in 1969, Galway Plant & Tool Hire supplies industrial equipment and also commercial vehicles. We offer a wide range of plant, equipment and vehicles for long and short-term hire to a broad base of customers, from local authorities and Semi State Bodies to all areas of the private sector. With more than 100 people, we pride ourselves on providing top of the range equipment, backed by a professional, efficient service. Our team are experts in their field and have superior knowledge in the correct application and use of our range of equipment.
Access Plus is a well-respected and prominent business within the Scottish powered access market. They have delivered high quality powered access solutions to customers since 1998 and currently manage approximately 700 assets. This specialism and expertise will help accelerate our powered access strategy and increase our coverage throughout Scotland.
Future Events Hire is dedicated to building and fulfilling your event calendar with you, making sure that everything happens when it needs to. There’s no being late when it’s an event! Creating the best guest experience for your concert, festival or live event means getting all the planning and backstage detail absolutely right. This takes reliable partners who provide everything you need. Our fleet of equipment will power, accommodate, refresh and light your concert or festival and we’ve built stages for the biggest and the best. When you need staging, lighting towers, generators, rigging, welfare units, toilets, showers and backstage areas, Future Events Hire is the call you make.
Your Trusted Partner in Container Conversions & Modular Buildings. We’ve been the trusted partner for businesses across Ireland and the UK, specialising in container conversions, modular buildings and towable units. We transform ordinary shipping containers into versatile offices, comfortable accommodation units, functional retail spaces, and more. Our custom-designed modular buildings are flexible and scalable workspaces or living environments which can be set up quickly and efficiently, and our towable units, from small welfare units to luxurious VIP trailers and fit outs, offer a mobile solution. We cater to a wide range of industries, including rental and hire, events, farming, construction, and retail. We don’t just offer products – we collaborate with you to understand your specific needs and deliver customised mobile that fit your budget and timeline.
Asset Maintenance Services
Asset Maintenance Services (AMS) from Briggs is the crucial support needed by businesses like utility companies such as SGN, as well as the Environment Agency, Landmarc, Ground Control, Canal & River Trust and idVerde. The supply and servicing of capital equipment from trailers to mini diggers, pumps and generators to aerators and even reed cutters for cleaning canals, makes it possible for some of the UK’s largest public and private sector organisations to achieve their commitments and high levels of service. Above all, AMS is the only nationwide provider of support for equipment of this type in this sector. No-one else does what we do and no-one can do it as well as we do.
United Plant Services is an engineering and asset management business, providing market leading engineering support and fleet management for Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) within the quarry and waste industry.
Through their collaborative approach to supply chain management, United Plant has built up a reputation for delivering a trusted engineering and compliance service to its customers.
TrainingPlus brings a fully established and well renowned health & safety training provider to our Group. The courses and skills delivered by TrainingPlus cover a wide range of subjects and specialities, which complement the products and solutions we provide to our customers.
To make sure you get the best support, book your LOLER and PUWER inspections with Qualitas. Our team will be on call to review materials handling, powered access, specialist warehousing, heavy plant and also towing equipment at ports and freight terminals. We’re dedicated to ensuring our customers have equipment that’s operating in peak condition. It’s also very important that safety and compliance go hand in hand with productivity. We have decades of machine inspection experience. Our background within Briggs Equipment means we have expertise built on supporting customers in all sectors of industry. Whether your equipment operates in demanding environments or is intensively used in busy applications, Qualitas Asset Compliance will deliver regular, independent and accredited inspections to give you peace of mind.