Leicestershire plant hire company sold to create £80m firm
Essential Fleet Services, the specialist vehicle contract hire business owned jointly by private equity firm Endless and entrepreneur Andrew Cope, has bought Ibstock-based Go Plant for an undisclosed sum to create one of the UK’s largest providers of specialist and commercial vehicles.
The combination of Essential and Go Plant creates a group with sales of £80m, over 500 staff and 35 depots and service centres across the UK.
This is Cope’s twelfth major deal in the fleet sector and is the first acquisition by Essential sinc... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
