Former rugby player leads app investment consortium
Photo: Tim Stimpson and Ivan Yardley
A former rugby union international forms part of a consortium of investors that has backed a new trade plant hire app.
Trade Plant Hire has developed and launched the platform to enable tradespeople and DIY enthusiasts to easily compare the market for a wide variety of equipment, from skips and scaffolding to power tools and portable generators.
The app has been launched in London and Birmingham, and will be rolled out across the rest of the UK later in 2021.
Ivan Yardley, managing director of Birmingham-based Trade Plant Hire, said: "This gives users instant access through their smart phones to a huge network of stockists in their area - allowing them to see in an instant the type and quantity of equipment available.
"The plant hire industry is not only fragmented but poorly served by tech solutions - and this app changes all that by being the only independent platform linking stockists with willing customers."
Tim Stimpson is part of a group of investors which also includes serial entrepreneur Gary Dewhurst of Growth50.
Stimpson added: "This app is a disruptor and completely built around the needs of local tradespeople and DIYers by simplifying and streamlining what can be an incredibly time consuming and frustrating process.
"At the moment you might have to visit several different websites for quotes on a variety of hire equipment, only to find an item either unavailable or at a depot 50 miles away. This platform is a real gamechanger as it allows users to source equipment at a competitive price via their mobile phone."
This article was published on Monday, 14th June, 2021