ABOUT SPEEDY HIRE

ABOUT SPEEDY HIRE

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU 

Speedy Hire is the UK and Ireland’s leading provider of tools, specialist equipment and services. We provide exceptional customer experience, accelerating collective success towards a sustainable future.

Our mission is to provide safe, reliable hire equipment and services to enable the successful delivery of customer projects. Our commitment to our customers is always underpinned with health, safety, the environment and community at the forefront of our mind.

 

TOOL HIRE 

Our 3,500+ product lines include everyday power tools and equipment, through to more specialist lifting, survey, powered access, rail and power generation equipment. Plus, through our extensive network of partners, we can source the right solution for every job, no matter how large or specialist your requirement.

Our industry leading promise guarantees 4-hour or same-day delivery on our 350 most popular products.

 

INDUSTRY LEADING SAFETY AND SKILLS TRAINING 

Whenever you're working at height or operating a crane at Speedy Training we provide an extensive range of training solutions to enable you to operate efficiently and safely.

Speedy offers a comprehensive range of classroom and eLearning courses covering a range of safe use and awareness topics from IPAF Powered Access Training Courses to PASMA Access Training Courses which will help your employees to gain nationally recognised qualifications and transferable skills. 

 

OVER 45 YEARS OF DELIVERING EXCELLENCE 

  • 46,000+ customers
  • 300,000+ itemised assets available for hire
  • 1,000+ commercial vehicles
  • 3,300+ employees
  • 180+ depots across the UK and Ireland
  • International operations in the Middle East and Kazakhstan
  • Safest hire provider in the industry
  • Serving 85% of the top contractors in the UK
  • Technology driven business

 

CONSUMABLE AND EQUIPMENT SALES 

Speedy have a huge range of site consumables available to hire and purchase, available from stock which include tools, equipment, fuel, PPE and on-site consumables.

  • Over 8,000 core products and 36,000 extended product range
  • Access to a central, managed procurement team to source everything from specialist kit to bulk purchase of materials

 

TESTING INSPECTION & CERTIFICATION EXCELLENCE 

Over 200 years’ industry-leading experience and support in testing inspection and certification services delivered through our Lloyds British business. We support our customers by helping to ensure safety, compliance and productivity across their plant equipment.

  • We help manage your lifting systems and the complex regulations that surround them, efficiently and safely
  • Wide range of services available from LOLER Lifting Testing and Inspection to UKAS Type 'C' Examination and Inspection Services
 
 
  
1977
Speedy opens its first depot in Wigan
John Brown forms Livesey Hire in Wigan
1982
John Brown purchase Speedy Fixings Power Tools Ltd
1987
First Speedy depot opens in London, with Graham Neave, Ian Gibson, Kevin Everett and Shane Coil joining the company
1993
Speedy buys Hire-a-Tool and Kendrick Hire
Including first depot in Wales and splits the two companies to form Speedy Northern and Speedy Southern
Speedy launches ‘Hire Direct’, the first centralised, national call centre operation in the hire sector
1996
Acquisition of Tidy Hire to create Speedy Midlands
2001
Name change to Speedy Hire Plc
2002
Speedy celebrate 25 years in hire
Speedy makes biggest acquisition to date, acquiring Jewson’s 37 standalone depots
2005
Speedy launches its landmark apprenticeship scheme
Speedy launches its ‘Safety from the Ground Up’ (SFTGU) initiative to help tackle the construction industry’s poor health and safety record at site level. The first campaign targets deaths and injuries caused by falls from height.
Awards
Growth strategy of the year award (National Business Awards)
Hire company of the year award
Hire person of the year award – John Brown
2006
Speedy launches its second SFTGU campaign to raise awareness of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (white finger) – an occupational disease affecting thousands of workers
Speedy launches its corporate responsibility report.
Speedy contracts with Royal Navy to provide an on-site depot and full asset management support services at the MOD dockyard in Portsmouth.
Ground-breaking agreement reached with OPERC requiring all tools supplied to Speedy to be independently tested
2007
Speedy becomes the only UK hire company to offer bio-fuel generators
Speedy opens its first true on-site facility, providing on the ground access to essential tools, equipment and consumables to operatives, while minimizing deliveries to and from site. Customers now include Carillion Bovis, Costain and Balfour Beatty.
Speedy becomes the first company to trial and use electric vehicles for delivery.
Awards
National Business Awards
Business in The Community
2008
Speedy launches its first Multi Service Centre (MSC), an 8 acre logistics and distribution centre to bring the groups entire products and services under one roof.
Speedy works with equipment manufacturers and customer to develop and launch a new range of environmentally friendly site accommodation (EnviroCabin)
Speedy delivers its 100,000th ‘Toolbox Talk’ – training sessions run on construction sites to help raise awareness and understanding of health and safety best practice
Speedy launches its third SFTGU campaign to raise awareness of dust pollution
Speedy signs a five year contract with Exxon Mobil to install and operate an on-site facility providing hire products and other asset maintenance and support services
Speedy forms the Construction Site Solutions Consortium and successfully bids to provide the on-site retail and materials facility at the Olympic Park north in Stratford
Awards:
No. 1 in the Observer’s Good Companies Guide (FTSE 350) of ethical companies
Hire Association Europe Award for ‘Best Contribution to Environmental Issues’
2009
Speedy launches its Greener from the Ground Up program – a package of measures and innovations designed to help customers reduce waste and improve energy efficiency
Speedy as part of the Construction Site Solutions (‘CSS’) consortium won the contract with the Olympic Delivery Authority (‘ODA’) to provide rental equipment, building supplies and training to firms working on the 2012 Olympic Games
Southern Electric Contracting (‘SEC’), one of the country’s largest mechanical and electrical contractors, signed a £6 million sole supplier agreement, building on a successful five year relationship
Awards:
Hire Association Europe Award for ‘Best Contribution to Environmental Issues’
Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice
Green Hero Award
British Safety Council International Safety Award
2010
Three-years sole supplier agreement with WysePower, a leading provider of site enabling services for generators and associated fuel
Two year sole-supplier agreement with Tube Lines, the company upgrading three of the busiest lines on the London underground
Three-year contract extensions with Exxon Mobil and Osborne and the renewal of a five-year preferred supplier agreement with Galliford Try
Three-year sole supplier agreement with Works infrastructure UK, a leading engineering group operating in the infrastructure, facilities management, civil engineering and rail sectors
Awards:
Hire Association Europe – Environmental Initiatives Award
Green Apple Award
Green Hero Status
2011
Two-years sole supplier agreement with Tesco plc the UKs largest and one of the world’s leading retailers, working on its refurbishment and build programs for all new and existing stores throughout 2011 and 2012
24 month renewal of a preferred supplier agreement with Interserve with £4.5 million.
Three-year deal with the nuclear decommissioning authority to supply lifting consumables to the nuclear processing sites Sellafield, Magnox, Dounreay and the remaining NDA estate
One Plan – new sustainability programme launched
Awards:
Winner of the Hire Association Europe – Excellence in Training
Winner – BITC Big Tick for Sustainable Supply Chain
Winner of the Green Apple Silver Award for Environmental Best practice and awarded Green Hero Status
Towerlight UK win the Speedy Environmental Award for its VB9 lighting tower at the 2011 Speedy Supplier Awards
2012
Awards:
Green Apple Award
HAE Health and Safety Award Winner
Workshop Manager of the Year – Gary Joseph
2013
Launch of National Grid ‘Fully Managed Service Plant and Equipment’ contract in April 2013 Awards:
BITC (Business in the Community) CR Index Platinum Ranking
Construction News Sustainable Company of the Year
BITC (Business in the Community) responsible Business regional Award for The Marketplace And Sustainability Leadership
2013
Speedy revolutionizes the market with the integrated services concept – designed to optimize our client’s assets, reduce their risk and enable delivery of their projects
2014
New Chief Executive Officer Mark Rogerson MBE is appointed Awards:
Speedy scoops a host of safety awards for the safety of its vehicle fleet
2015
Russell Down appointed as CEO in June 2015
2015
New optimized property network is completed, incorporating a new pioneering National Distribution Centre, 8 Multi-Service Centres and 38 Superstores
2016
Speedy acquire rail overhead line equipment specialist, OHP, significantly enhancing their offering in the rail sector
Speedy awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal for the second year running
Speedy lead the industry in the launch of new Smart Device technology
Speedy become the first company in the sector to achieve the ISO 50001 accreditation for energy saving
 

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