The CAT brand has around 8% of the UK market and the Mitsi around 1%.
MCFE would find it difficult to lift the Mitsi brand from it's current lowly position with their poor quality dealer network. Perhaps MCFE will bring in one of their middle eastern dealers to invest in CAT Lift Trucks in the UK.
The Yale and Hyster brands are the same and are both manufactured in the Craigavon plant in NI.
It is the customers in the UK who will probably now be negatively impacted by pricing fixing by two such large dealers selling the same product.
Perhaps Briggs have bigger ambitions than just owning Yale UK ??