MT awards finalist

Technical Excellence recognised by major industry awards

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Congratulations to our client, The Cartwright Group, who are finalists for the Technical Excellence Award at this year’s Motor Transport Awards.

Productivity-boosting and service-focused innovations developed by Altrincham-based Cartwright Group for transport and logistics businesses and other commercial vehicle operators have been recognised with a shortlisting in the Technical Excellence category at this year’s Motor Transport Awards. These annual awards celebrate achievement, leadership and success in the road transport industry which constitutes a major part of the UK economy.

“As a leading commercial vehicle body, trailer and conversion manufacturer we attribute much of our reputation, growth and success to our innovative approach,” says Mark Cartwright, managing director at Cartwright Group. “We are delighted that new products and services devised by our teams to anticipate and fulfil market requirements have been shortlisted for these prestigious awards.

New product and service innovations have been introduced by every part of the Cartwright Group in the past year. Cartwright Trailers, for example, has developed a completely new trailer concept called the Streetwise that makes it easier, quicker and safer for suppliers to make kerbside deliveries to retailers on busy and congested high streets. Other innovations have reduced the weight, increased the carrying capacity and improved the streamlining of trailers while enhancing loading flexibility to maximise productivity and minimise running costs.

Cartwright Fleet Services has developed the unique web-enabled YourFleet Live service that provides transport operators of all sizes with unprecedented real-time access to detailed information about vehicle utilisation, status and service history for optimum operational efficiency and flexibility and to ensure compliance with regulations and laws.

Cartwright Rentals has devised its new FleetFlex service that provides operators with complete flexibility to scale the size of their fleets to current demand, for example during seasonal or unexpected peaks, without traditional storage, maintenance and ownership overheads.

Cartwright Conversions has developed a number of innovative solutions for customers, including a unique new mobile banking concept that is being introduced by a major high street bank to support customers with no local banking access and welfare vehicles with unique design features that provide essential rest and relief facilities for workers at remote locations.

Cartwright Group continues to experience considerable growth across all part of its business as the company secures new contracts for its products and services with customers ranging from the largest transport and distribution operators to independent businesses with smaller fleets and single vehicles.

The winners of the 2017 Motor Transport Awards will be announced at a special event in London on 5 July. The Cartwright Group has enjoyed considerable success at previous events, most recently winning the Apprenticeship of the Year Award last year for its training and development programmes for young employees.

Most successful CV show to date

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We have had a busy lead up to this year’s CV Show with a 600m2 stand that we designed, built and supported at the NEC last week for our client, The Cartwright Group. 

The three-day exhibition was our most successful show to date and this was the largest stand that The Cartwright Group had exhibited. We included hosting areas within the stand for the different companies within The Group, with space for Cartwright Conversions, Cartwright Rentals, Cartwright Finance and Cartwright Fleet Services along with converted vehicles and liveried trailers. Alongside this we created brochures for each section of the Group alongside individual product specification sheets and organised some giveaways in the shape of chocolate trucks, which were extremely well received!

Our barista skills were once again put to the test and we had a great time working alongside The Group.

Another win at MT Awards!

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Last nights industry leading Motor Transport Awards resulted in a  fantastic evening for one of Purple’s clients, The Cartwright Group, who took centre stage in one of the most popular and competitive categories, Apprenticeship of the Year.  Purple worked closely with Mark Cartwright, Rich Anderson and a number of former/existing apprentices to pull together the winning submission. “It was a fantastic result for all at  Cartwright and we really appreciate your excellent support and guidance.” said Rich following a rather late evening of well earned celebrations.

Another Great Show for Purple

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Our client, Jigsaw Transport, was again highly complimentary of the 50m sq stand we designed, built and support-hosted at the NEC last week. The three-day exhibition – aimed at decision makers in the transport industry – provided the perfect proving ground for our client to showcase their unique transport solutions. Known for our excellent barista skills, we managed to attract a number of influential  existing as well as prospective customers onto our clients stand.

“Purple did it again. We arrived in time for the opening on the first day to find an impressive stand, fully stocked and ready to go. Having worked with Purple for a number of years, I know I can leave them to come up with the goods, from stand design & build, to giveaways and manning schedules, they have it all covered with great attention to detail. This year’s stand outshone all previous and we attracted some very interesting people, so all round a huge success!” Andy Humpherson, MD, Jigsaw Transport. 

Award Submission takes Centre Stage!

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Purple Marketing helped elevate another client by researching and preparing their awards submission for the industry’s event of the year, The Motor Transport Awards 2015. The Grosvenor Hotel in London hosted the event and it’s where everybody who is anybody within the CV industry meets to celebrate the successes of their customers, colleagues and suppliers. Our client, Northside Truck & Van from Bradford was over the moon when they took centre stage to collect the Apprenticeship of the Year Award.

Our expertise in the commercial vehicle industry meant we were able to prepare a submission with minimal but factual input from the client, that was highly industry relevant, impressed the judges and following the win, provided Northside with a whole new marketing and communication platform locally and nationally. The words of the judges, “This was a stand-out entry!” Praise indeed.

Jigsaws marketing piece!

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For the fourth consecutive year Purple Marketing designed, built and helped host one of their clients stands at the Annual Multimodal Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham. “Jigsaw Transport has been employing a wide range of our marketing services for more than four years now. We started with the rebranding of their organisation followed by communication projects, sponsorship activities, POS, award submissions, website design, show casing opportunities and much more!” said Debbi Hutt, Director at Purple Marketing.

The Multimodal Exhibition is the UK and Ireland’s premier freight transport, logistics and supply chain management event so the perfect platform to show case Jigsaw’s offering of large-scale management transport solutions. “We met a number of major businesses who were receptive to our value proposition and are looking to improve the performance of their transport operations,” says Andy Humpherson, Jigsaw’s Managing Director. “Multimodal has always been a key event for us and Purple has yet again come up with a great solution. A visually appealing stand which delivered the perfect balance of space utilisation, brand visibility and customer/prospect engagement. Based on the success of this and previous years, we will be taking more space next year”. “Over to you Purple!” He added.