U.K.’s Vp plc Acquires Jackson Mechanical Services

U.K. rental company Vp plc has acquired Jackson Mechanical Services, a rental company with locations in Harpenden and Leeds in a deal valued at £3.6 million (about U.S. $4.5 million), according to U.K. media sources.
April 7, 2017

U.K. rental company Vp plc has acquired Jackson Mechanical Services, a rental company with locations in Harpenden and Leeds in a deal valued at £3.6 million (about U.S. $4.5 million), according to U.K. media sources. The equipment rental activities of Jackson will be integrated into Vp’s Hire Station division. Vp also includes brands such as U.K. Forks, Groundforce, and Torrent Trackside, which serves the oil-and-gas industry.

“This acquisition will provide additional strength to our successful Hire Station specialist business,” said Vp chairman Jeremy Pilkington.

The acquisition does not include the JMS Plant Hire powered access division.

Vp recently said it has experience positive trading conditions through the winter period and expects to deliver full year results in line with current market expectations for its fiscal year ended March 31.

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Michael Roth

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.

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