Garage Equipment News | Everard Garage Equipment

Everard Group Become Official Distribution Partner for Hunter Engineering Company

Everard Group is delighted and proud to announce that this week we became a Hunter Engineering Company Ltd distributor for the UK. We look forward to working with our new prestigious partner and are excited to showcase the Hunter range. James Everard, Sales Director commented: “This is really great news for Everard,

11 Mar

Signs Your MOT Lift Needs Repair or Servicing

As the number one worldwide distributor of Herrmann vehicle lifts and Europe’s largest Rotary lift distributor for the last 4-years, we know a thing or two about MOT and ATL lift maintenance and repair. If you’re looking for MOT lift manuals and individual manufacturers’ recommendations, visit our online database of the most common.

14 Feb

What do Workshops Need to Service Electric Vehicles?

This week the UK Gov has announced that the sale of all new UK petrol, diesel and hybrid cars (including plug-in hybrids) will be banned from 2035 rather than 2040 as previously proposed (possibly earlier). This changes the game considerably for garages, workshops and services centres and the equipment they will need to cater for

09 Jan

Everard Welcome our 100th Member of Staff

Everard Group Ltd. are pleased to introduce our latest recruit, and indeed our 100th member of staff, Chris Lawler. Chris will be heading up our Service Department, working in partnership with our Systems Manager, Kevin, to provide an exceptional level of support for workshops, dealerships, service centres and our end-users in line with how our

18 Dec

The Design Advantages of Everard

Other garage equipment providers and workshop consultants are also available… so what makes us different? Why do so many of the AM100 dealer groups come to us for their workshop equipment requirements? This week we took some time to speak to our Design Manager, Jack Wilkinson, to catch up with his team and find out

20 Oct

JD Garage Equipment (JDGE) is now Everard

We’ve changed our name from JD Engineering (Northern) Ltd. (trading as JD Garage Equipment – JDGE) to Everard Group Ltd. Everard is our family name and we want to associate our family name with what we do. Our customers will continue to receive the same level of professional service and competitive solutions they

27 Jun

BanaLogic and Everard (previously JDGE) create the Workshop of the Future

As part of our specialist portfolio of superior workshop equipment, Everard (JDGE) are pleased to announce our latest partnership, with the innovative Ontario, Canada based automotive equipment firm, BanaLogic. At the bleeding edge of innovation, BanaLogic are the inventors of the patented FASTLIGN Touchless Alignment System – the industry’s FIRST touchless active tyre tracking

10 Jun

Eight Ways to Attract Repeat Customers and Sell More Tyres

Getting our new customers through the door, keeping them coming back and making the most of them while they’re with us is more and more important in a competitive tyre market. Here are a few ways we can breed loyalty and foster up-sell with our customers. 1. Google My Business and recommendations. When we

30 Apr

Everard (JD Garage Equipment) Honoured by Herrmann Lifts for Fourth Year Running

David Johnson, European Sales Manager for Herrmann AG, dropped into our offices on Thursday to present us with our award for Outstanding Sales Performance and for Achieving the Status of Number One Distributor Worldwide. That’s more of our own workshop designs, installations and projects using Herrmann Lifts than anyone else in the world – four

29 Apr

Increasing sales and avoiding liability, with our Sigmavision TreadReader

The chance to increase tyre sales by as much as 46% and document the status of a vehicle – saving thousands a year in (possibly fraudulent) damage claims – isn’t one to be missed. Our custom JDGE/Sigmavision TreadReader offers accurate tread depth readings for tyres on passenger cars, HGVs, PSVs, LCVs, buses and trailers.

04 Apr

Recognition from Rotary Vehicle Lifts

Here’s our hard-working sales team, all smiles, with our BAFTA from Rotary Vehicle Lifts – the world’s most trusted vehicle lift. We’ve installed so many over the last 12-months that they’ve sent us a little something for the awards cabinet. It’s brilliant to be recognised as the UK number one distributor. A very big thank

04 Oct

Everard Group Ltd. (J D Garage Equipment) Announces Promotion of New Finance Director

Everard (J D Garage Equipment) has announced the promotion of Financial Controller, Nigel Sparks to the new position of Finance Director. Everard Group Ltd. (JDGE) has appointed Nigel Sparks as its new Financial Director. Nigel joined the company in 2017 as Financial Controller assuming responsibility for managing the company’s Financial Department alongside the company’s