VAN DER Spek, the Liebherr distributor for the Benelux countries and northern France, celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Belgian operations with a four day party from 17 to 20 May. The first three days were for 2,500 customers; the final day was for employees and their families.
‘We wanted to give something back to the market,’ said managing director John Galoy, ‘for the trust and cooperation they have given us over 40 years.’ A circus was set up at the company’s premises near Brussels. While there were acrobats and clowns, plans to bring in elephants, lions and tigers had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Western Europe, said Galoy.
Van der Spek distributes Liebherr mobile, crawler and tower cranes, concrete mixing plants and truck mixers, as well as PM loader cranes and Maber hoists. It also has a rental fleet of 440 Liebherr tower cranes – 400 of them top slewing.