26.02.2007

Skylift spends €15 million with Genie

Limerick based Skylift has placed its largest order ever with Genie industries. The deal worth over €15million, covers a wide range of products from Genies aerial lift range.

The company says that the investment is targeted purely at servicing the domestic Irish market and is the first of a number of major investments in new equipment that it has planned over the next 18 months.

Skylift was founded in Limerick almost 10 years ago by managing director John Cusack and now has locations in Limerick, Cork and Dublin.
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(L-R) John Cusack, Seamus O'Dwyer, financial controller, Skylift and John Fuller of Genie on concluding the €15 illion deal.

Cusack said ‘Genie is a long established business partner of Skylift. This deal is based on Genie delivering €15million worth of equipment for immediate introduction into our Hire and Sales divisions. It is the first of a number of deals we are structuring to copper fasten our position as the leading supplier of powered access equipment in Ireland’

He added “this is a very significant deal for Skylift not only because of the value of equipment involved but in continuing our strategic relationship with Genie Industries. We have identified a number of key business partners that will contribute to our continued growth over the next few years and are delighted that Genie has committed to Skylift as one its key business alliances”.