English - Nooteboom Giants on the Road Magazine English - Nr. 3 - 2016 | Page 5

INTRODUCTION “If you choose Nooteboom, you’re choosing full service support” As a family business we are, 135 years after it was established, still deeply rooted in Dutch society. At the same time we are now active in more than one hundred countries and have grown into the leading manufacturer of vehicles for special transport - in Europe and beyond. This international dimension always features in our magazine Giants on the Road. In this issue we focus on France, where in October we where present at the trade fair JDL in Marseille. MAINTAINING A HEALTHY GROWTH RATE Our international presence means that at Nooteboom we are confronted every day with the dynamic developments of various markets. These not only affect Nooteboom, they definitely affect our customers too. Of course we have no influence over international politics and the economy. What we can do is to make sure that we offer our customers as much security as possible – regardless of the circumstances. Anyone who chooses Nooteboom chooses the best trailers available on the market and can always rely on our full-service support. After being awarded the BedrijfsautoRai SV Innovation Award and the Heavies Innovation Award (UK) for our revolutionary new generation of MANOOVR trailers, we can now add the ESTA Award of Excellence to this collection. For us, this is the international recognition of our efforts to keep on surprising our customers with groundbreaking innovations. If as a company you invest heavily in R&D, it goes without saying that you want to protect your intellectual property as best you can. Recently the patent discussion regarding the pendle axle with excavator trough ended with a verdict in our favour. For a trend-setting company like Nooteboom this is important: patents encourage innovation and it is partly due to this verdict of the judge that we can continue to invest in innovations to help our customers – and ultimately the entire special transport branch – to move forward. After all, our claim is: Nooteboom. Gets you there. In this issue of Giants on the Road you can read more about the latest developments within our organisation, such as the expansion of the MANOOVR production and the service facilities in Zwijndrecht(NL). Happy reading! MARINKA NOOTEBOOM, GENERAL MANAGER 5