Toyota bought BT in 2001 (ish) and they ran as 2 companies. bt was a great company and everything was in house. toyota was mainly through dealerships, toyota decided they wanted to do the same. so they merged (2007) and created toyota material handling uk. they bought all the shity dealerships (which some have been shut down now) and some of the big dealerships didnt sell to toyota and are now big Competitors.

i think they took on to much in such a short a time, and obviously didn't see the credit crunch coming.

the toyota (****) counterbalance and BT (Swedish) warehouse are great kit! and i'd be very surpised if the giant toyoda/toyota don't stay top of the game.

intersting to see Nissan (****) buying Atlet (swedish) -- Nissan operates through a network of dealerships, and Atlet is all in house? will we be seeing Nissan Material Handling in 7 years time?

again i think nissan are great counter balances and atlet seem good warehouse equipment.

i think were going to see a lot of the big boys buying out material handling companies in the future?