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Can any Company now be a manufacture

Seeing the success of companies like SAMUK can any company now be a manufacture. Companies like Tailift will let other companies sell there truck with their own company name on the truck , so how far away are we from any size dealer selling their own trucks.


If you look at the new manitou Mi range over 5 ton they look very much like a Tailift.So will we soon see some companies selling their own brand of forklift to the own customers and leaving some major Brands behind.


SAMUK look like part of maximal now but will Maximal sell you trucks to sell as your own , and how many more manufactures will do this
  • Posted 19 Nov 2015 04:18
  • Modified 19 Nov 2015 04:21 by poster
  • By exalt
  • joined 30 Sep'14 - 433 messages
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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The new big range do look similar to tailift but with some manufacturers trucks do look the same
  • Posted 21 Nov 2015 02:03
  • By exalt
  • joined 30 Sep'14 - 433 messages
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Branding a truck does not make that company a manufacture. At that point they are just a distributor or representative.
  • Posted 21 Nov 2015 00:59
  • By Partsguy5
  • joined 13 Jun'12 - 409 messages
  • California, United States
You are wrong, Tailift do not make any trucks for Manitou, Manitou's range of IC and electric industrial machines are made by Hangcha.
  • Posted 21 Nov 2015 00:24
  • By danny_k
  • joined 3 Mar'05 - 310 messages
  • Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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