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Job Vacancy - Business Manager, East of England
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SGM are looking for a suitably experienced and highly motivated Business Manager to develop and oversee its current operations in the East of England. Based predominantly from our Rotherham depot, the successful candidate will be responsible for the sales development of the area as well as the day to day management of 2 depots and current business activities. SGM are the UK’s leading supplier of Groundcare products and associated support services.
Salary commensurate with experience. Package will include company car, telephone and laptop and additionally the successful candidate will benefit from the company’s pension and healthcare scheme.
Please contact us for further information on the position.
Northampton extend with SGM
Northampton Borough Council have decided to extend the current contract with specialist ground-care supplier SGM. Having enjoyed a relationship extending back 4 years, the council has decided that it would like to continue with the hire of its ground-care and grass machinery fleet for a further period of 1 year. SGM provides Northampton with tractors, rotary and cylinder mowers and various specialist items of kit with all servicing and maintenance included. SGM Managing Director Steven McInroy says” We have enjoyed a good relationship with the team at Northampton and look forward to providing further high levels of support over the course of the next 12 months”
You Can Bank on Reform
SGM has seen a remarkable rise in enquiries for its Reform range of banking tractors.
Capable of working on slopes of up to 45 degrees, these machines provide the answer to many customers who want to ensure operator safety at all times.
Although designed with bankings and slopes in mind, these tractors are capable of working all year round, working on anything from pitch maintenance, golf courses, parks and snow clearing.
SGM is currently the Reform dealer for Scotland and the North East of England and is delighted at being able to offer its customers machines that offer a safe working environment for the operators whilst maintaining consistent and flexible options.
Strictly Come Dancing Meets APSE
Council’s quick step to the top with Flavia!
Some early festive cheer was brought to local authorities with Strictly Come Dancing star, Flavia Cacace, presenting winners of the APSE performance networks awards 2009. Hosted in Blackpool the awards recognised the best and most improved performers in local government front line services.
SGM sponsored the award for 'Parks, open spaces and horticultural services' and our congratulations go to the winners of the award, Copeland Borough Council (pictured David McInroy with the winners and Flavia).
Speaking to the finalists at the awards Ms Cacace said ‘As a professional dancer I know that in order to achieve and sustain the highest levels of performance you need to have dedication and commitment and a willingness to constantly learn and improve. These are all qualities that you need in competition and are qualities that all of you here tonight bring to your own working lives to make sure that the public receive the best possible public services’
Councillor Shaun Gallagher, APSE’s national chair said ‘Winning a performance networks award is a real credit to the work of those managers and front line staff who are often the unsung heroes behind services such as school meals, bins and parks but they are often overlooked. I congratulate everyone of these winning councils’
The awards are for ‘best performer’ and ‘most improved performer’ which recognise and encourage continuous improvement in cost, quality and customer satisfaction across eleven different front line services provided by local councils.
Mark Bramah, APSE assistant chief executive, said ‘The public sector faces an austere future so getting best value for the public pound means constantly getting the best performance from our front line public services. What these awards show is that in front line local council services there is a genuine commitment to providing high quality at the best price. The awards are strictly about performance and we have judged these councils to be amongst the very best in front line service delivery’
Gleneagles 5 Year Service Agreement Extension
SGM has recently announced the re-negotiation and extension to the Service Provision Agreement with The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire. The agreement which has just been signed for a 5 year term sees SGM provide all the servicing and maintenance on the Gleneagles ground-care fleet of predominately Toro machines. The agreement extends the SGM/Gleneagles relationship for a further 5 year period and will now see SGM provide the maintenance support during the course of the 2014 Ryder Cup. SGM is obviously rightly proud of our achievements to date in providing Gleneagles with its service and maintenance support, and are delighted at the opportunity of providing that service for a further period.
Snow Going in Clackmannanshire
SGM has recently provided Clackmannanshire Council with a fleet of snow clearing equipment designed to keep the residents of Clackmannanshire safe. Additionally SGM has provided the council with a 24 hour back-up service over the busy festive period and into the New Year. The machines being used are Iseki tractor units fitted with front snowplough and Kuhn spreader capable of spreading salt and grit on pavements and larger areas. The machines have certainly been busy over the recent period with a promise of more to come.
Landscape & Amenity Award Winners Celebrate Success
**Andy Pember Crowned Horticultural Apprentice of the Year**
The ceremony for the Horticultural Week Awards took place on 3rd November 2009 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, in London's Park Lane.
Nominations for this prestigious award had been flooding in for months prior to the ceremony. Andy is currently delivering a wide range of horticultural tasks for the Yardley Contract, which is part of our large contract with Birmingham City Council.
Andy, pictured here with his Horticultural Lecturer, Mike Hinton, has recently completed a two year apprenticeship attending day release at Kings Heath Horticultural College and has successfully achieved a National Certificate in horticulture.
In addition to his normal horticultural duties, Andy has also involved himself in many different projects across the contracts, including a Health and Safety Committee and Biodiversity Champion Programme. This programme is part of our tender commitments to Birmingham City Council and is designed to add sustainable environment value to our service solutions.
Andy said: “I was delighted when I found out I was nominated, so winning the award was a bonus. Achieving this award is a real motivator to future apprentices on the Quadron Services Contract with Birmingham City Council.”
In addition to this success, Quadron Services also achieved “Contractor of the Year Award” and “Partnering” Award with Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.
As a valued customer of SGM, we would like to offer our congratulations to the staff at Quadron Services for winning the awards
Book Your Snowclearing Equipment for Winter Season
With the cold season now rapidly approaching, it’s the time of year again to be thinking about snowclearing and gritting equipment.
We can offer packages of Iseki/New Holland/Shibaura compact tractors, complete with 3-way angled Tomlin/Cuthbertsons snowblade that is small enough to work on any average walkway width, yet also has the capacity to clean an average size car park. The unit is complete with a 200 litre Epoke drop salt spreader, with adjustable drop rate, that would suit most requirements.
We offer competitive hire rates as well as outright purchase deals, so please contact us for our latest offers or to book your snowclearing equipment requirements.
Groundcare Machinery Parts for Winter 2009/10
SGM have an extensive range of Winter Service Filter Kits readily available, off the shelf.
Available for all the major Groundcare manufacturers such as Ransomes Jacobsen, Iseki, Kubota, Toro and John Deere. We also supply winter service filter kits for small plant and hand held machinery, Stihl, Echo, Husqvarna.
We currently have over 20,000 line items in stock at any one time, the range including filters, lift arms, hydraulic pumps, cylinders, rollers, bearings, belts and blades and we offer guaranteed next day delivery on all stock items, with carriage will be paid on all orders over £95.
Please contact our parts department for further information and prices on our full range available on 0800 432 0440 or email enquiries@sgm-uk.com
Winter Service Work Begins for 2010 Season
Our engineer’s are fully trained in a variety of manufacturers, including Toro, John Deere, Jacobsen and Iseki.
Our depots in Fife and Perthshire, Scotland are well located cover Scottish customer requirements with our network of depots across England servicing customers south of the border.
If you are a private owner of a golf club, public garden, estate or caravan park, we can accommodate all your winter servicing needs.
With the start of the frosts it is time for us all to turn our attention to winter servicing. Our workshop is able to offer winter servicing to customers across the UK. Our engineers can service your machines in situ or uplift your machines free of charge to one of our many depots throughout the country.
Contact us for a free estimate and health check of your machines and we can ensure that you get the best value for service.
For further information on prices for winter service work at our depots or for any other queries you can contact us on 0800 432 0440 or email enquiries@sgm-uk.com.
For customers attending Scotsturf on the 11th & 12th November 2009 at Ingliston, we will be exhibiting on Stands E17 & E18. Don’t miss the opportunity to speak to our team and to ensure your machinery is in the best of health for 2010.
SGM Exhibits at Scotsturf 2009
Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh 11th & 12th November 2009. IOG Scotsturf is the only Scottish event for the grounds care, sports amenities, landscaping and estate management sectors, with an unrivalled reputation for ideas and innovation.
Launched as a grounds care show in 1971, it has grown in size and stature and now covers all aspects of the open space management industry. The best thing is, it’s the only show that is truly Scottish – run by an experienced team based in Scotland, for the industry in Scotland.
From public parks to sports pitches, IOG Scotsturf is a MUST-ATTEND event for anyone involved in the maintenance, creation and development of outdoor spaces, making it an unmissable event.
SGM will be one of over 100 of the industry’s leading suppliers exhibiting at the event and this year we can be located at Stands E17 & E18.
As the local dealer for Massey Ferguson Groundscare equipment, SGM (UK) Ltd will be displaying a selection of models from within the MF GROUNDSCARE Range. The newly extended range now covers from 19.5 to 91 DIN horsepower. All tractors can be supplied in cabin or rollbar versions, with the addition of either agricultural or turf tyres. In addition, SGM will be displaying a varied selection of their quality used and refurbished machinery, parts and complete service kits for a wide range of Groundscare machinery.
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Gleneagles Fleet Management Partnership with SGM
Golf Course and Estates Manager, Scott Fenwick talks to Turf Professional reporter, Chris Biddle about how SGM has sorted out his fleet maintenance at the Gleneagles Golf Course... (read article as pdf)
SGM Sponsors APSE Service Awards 2009
Over 700 guests came together at the Cardiff International Arena to celebrate the best in front line service delivery in local government.
Sky news and ITV Wales broadcaster and presenter, Mai Davies, said "An overwhelming four hundred submissions were received for the awards this year, with each one demonstrating a clear commitment to the goals of continuous improvement and the delivery of excellence in public services". The City and County of Swansea were declared ‘Overall Council of the Year in Service Delivery 2009’
SGM were delighted to sponsor the Best Community & Neighbourhood Initiative Aaward, won by Fife Council (pictured) and also the Best Service Team - Parks, Grounds & Horticultural Award, picked up by Nottingham City Council.
SGM (UK) Limited offers Guaranteed Finance
As a special promotion SGM (UK) Limited is offering to guarantee that it can obtain finance for all companies and individuals looking to purchase used machinery from them.
Even in today’s apparently improving financial markets obtaining asset finance to permit the purchase of used equipment continues to be challenging. By working with a range of finance providers SGM is confident that it can guarantee to secure an offer of finance for both companies and individuals looking to purchase used equipment.
This special promotion will initially run from August to October 2009 but if successful the company will aim to extend the offer into 2010.
SGM Fleet for Johnnie Walker Championship '09
As an event on The PGA European Tour, the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles attracts a field of the world’s best professional golfers.
SGM were delighted to provide a hire fleet of 12 utility vehicles and 10 golf buggies for the prestigious event, which grows more and more successful each year.
Sponsored by Diageo, this year’s Championship will once again be held over The PGA Centenary Course, the venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup, from the 27th – 30th August.
SGM Exhibits at Saltex 2009
SGM are pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at the 2009 IOG Saltex exhibition at Windsor Racecourse between the 8th - 10th September 2009.
This is one of the UK's most important and dynamic events for the grounds care, sports facilities, amenities, landscaping and estate management sectors. Further information on this event can be found at www.iogsaltex.co.uk
Please come alond and visit us on Stand V20.
Golf Pro Drysdale’s New Fairway Machine
Can cutting grass relieve stress? Just ask Dunbar golf professional David Drysdale.
Having recently taken delivery of a fully-refurbished Jacobsen T-Plex 185 from groundcare specialist SGM (UK) Ltd, in a recent interview David admitted he finds it ‘therapeutic’ to mow his 270-yard long practice fairway.
After assessing David’s requirements on-site, SGM installed their fully-refurbished cylinder mower, which was absolutely perfect for the fairway he lovingly tends immediately outside his front door in Cockburnspath.
Due to make his Open debut at Turnberry later this month, SGM wish him the best of luck reaching the top 60 and the Race for Dubai.
Golf Cars for the 2009 British Blind Open
SGM was delighted to be a part of the British Blind Open 2009, supplying 20 Yamaha golf cars to the Scottish Blind Golfing Society for the 2 day competition held at Hamilton Golf Club, Lanarkshire.
The event teed off on 8th June with the 42 entrants from the UK, Europe, Israel and Canada all competing to win the prestigious award. The 2009 winner was Scotland’s Cameron McDiarmid with a combined score of 131 .
The Scottish Blind Golf Society, a charity registered in Scotland, is a voluntarily-run organisation, providing quality competition and training in golf for registered blind and visually impaired people in Scotland. Since its humble beginnings in 1982, the "SBGS" has now developed into a well respected sports body where members can compete at local and national level, as well as being the outlet for it's members to play in international events throughout the world.
SGM Lauches New Product Range
SGM officially launched and confirmed their appointment as the Great Dane / Bad Boy Convertible dealer for Angus, Tayside, Fife and Central Scotland at their Open Day in Inverkeithing on 26th May.
With the Great Dane pedestrian mowers ranging from 32” up to 60”, with the added ability to add either cylinder or flail attachments, there is a model to suit every need.
The Bad Boy ride-on series boasts a range of cut from 48” to 72”, all powered by Cat diesel engines.
These professional built American machines are a welcome addition to SGM’s groundcare portfolio.
SGM Hires to Gardening Scotland 2009
The biggest gardening show north of the border took delivery of 3 utility vehicles for their 3 day event at Ingliston.
Supplied by groundcare specialists SGM (UK) Ltd, the 3 Toro Workmans were hired for Gardening Scotland 2009, which burst into bloom at the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston, just outside Edinburgh on 29th May.
With more than 150 stands in the Floral Hall, the cream of the British growers were there including the team from BBC’s Beechgrove Garden, who took a break from their garden to attend the event. The organisers who celebrated the event’s 10th anniversary described the show as ‘The Best Yet’.
For further information please contact us on 0800 432 0440 or via email enquiries@sgm-uk.com
