Latest News from James Troop & Co Ltd

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NEW Volvo Penta Web Shop! - Browse all Volvo Penta parts and accessories, displayed in an easily accessible exploded view with parts diagrams. Once you register you will have access to Volvo Parts 24/7 All year round. Please click below.

The Company is proud to announce that it has recently been awarded the prestigious

The annual awards were presented at the Volvo Penta Annual Dealer Conference held on October 23 at the Williams F1 Centre at Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Representing Troops at the Dealer Conference were John Troop (Sales Manager) and Stephen Griffiths (Business Development Manager). Pictured below is John Troop receiving the award from Mike Forman, Volvo Penta Marine Commercial Sales Manager.

This award reflects a tremendous amount of hard work and initiative by everyone in our Parts, Engine Sales, Service and Technical and Development departments, Supplying ongoing World class solutions to all our customers.

Over the past year the Company has invested a lot of time and effort towards achieving

We are pleased to report that on completion of the new VPC Standards program we were officially appointed as a

The biggest benefit you will see will be increased parts first fill, reducing costly down time for machines and the operator.

have invested in the latest Volvo Penta Automatic and Manual parts ordering IT software, completed staff training guarantees improved parts availability and increased customer satisfaction levels.

Non-stocked parts can be ordered and delivered to Runcorn overnight from Volvo Penta warehouses in Sweden and Rugby England. The new VPIM systems went live in November 2008.

As part of the new agreement, our Service Engineers are receiving High-Level Diagnostics training over a wide range of Volvo Penta engines including Commercial Marine, Leisure Marine and Industrial applications providing - One Stop Service - to our customers.

Other improvements include the expansion of our Trade Counter area where Engines, Parts and Volvo Penta product information will visible and accessible to our customers.

External Imaging has been updated to reflect our ongoing commitment enhancing the Visibility of

Health & Safety News:- In October 2008 the company gained accreditation to CHAS, (Contractor’s Health and Safety Scheme) which is fast becoming an essential pre-qualification to tender for public sector contracts. CHAS approval supplements our existing Constructionline approval.

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On the 9^th July 2008 signed a new five year agreement with Deutz AG renewing a long association between the two companies which were established within 19 years of each other.

Deutz founded by Nikolaus Otto in 1848 and James Troop Founded by Mr James Troop in 1867.

James Troop & Co Ltd has been associated with Deutz for 34 years and are able to offer a first class competitive service from highly experienced trained staff.

Re appointed as the official North West Distributor covering North Wales, Chester to Carlisle, West of the Pennines & the I .O. M, we supply customers with Engines, Parts and Service for Industrial, Standby Generation, Material handling, Plant Hire and Marine applications with an out put range stretching from 4 to 4000 KW.

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Due to our experience and expertise in the Commercial Marine and Industrial Markets, we are pleased to announce our appointment as the new, Dealer for MAN Marine and Industrial - Products and Services, this complimenting our existing Key Franchises.

As part of MAN Worldwide support, our Service area is England, Scotland and Wales, with special emphasis in providing customer service in the North West

James Troop Parts specialists and Service Engineers have been trained to MAN high standards and we look forward to being of service.

Compact, Reliable, and Fuel efficient, MAN range of engines cover Light Medium and Heavy duty operations.

We are just a phone call away and we will forward specification, application and Service support details by return.

01/11/2007

has been successful in gaining registration under the

Constructionline UK Register of pre-qualified construction services.

Constructionline is a government led body specifically for the construction and its related service industries. The Constructionline scheme's database is accessed by thousands of organisations looking for contractors with proven capabilities of their financial standing, customer references and good health and safety record. Further details can be viewed on the Constructionline website at www.constructionline.co.uk

The Constructionline scheme is being adopted by a number of Troop's existing customers as a pre-qualification system for all their contractors; it was therefore necessary to obtain Constructionline registration in order to be able to re-tender for existing contracts when they come up for renewal. It is hoped also that being registered with Constructionline will generate new business for Troops.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Griffiths as the Companies new

Steve served his apprenticeship with Woodward's of Formby in the Massey Ferguson Section then moved within the Local Industrial Construction and FLT sectors gaining extensive experience with Industrial, Plant and Fork lift truck applications.

Steve then joined Milford Motors Liverpool, Perkins Distributor, in 1977 as Technical Sales Engineer eventually becoming General Manager. In 1998 he joined Perkins Engines at Peterborough as Part of the Distributor Sales and Development Management team Looking after accounts in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia - later becoming part of the Business Development team within the C.A.T / Perkins World Wide Parts Distribution Centre at Irlam Manchester. Joining Troops in March 2007

We have moved to our new facility in Runcorn after 137 years of trading out of Liverpool.