WATCH THE UK PERSPECTIVE

Service Dealer has launched a Digital Special Report, packed with video coverage of the recent Equip trade show in Louisville, Kentucky - as seen from a UK perspective.

Within its pages you'll be able to watch a series of both bite-sized and feature length videos, all giving a flavour of what the biggest outdoor power equipment trade exhibition in the world can offer the international visitor.

The videos include contributions from our Service Dealer and TurfPro contingent who won competitions staged in our pages by the show's organisers, the OPEI. You can watch what dealer Pete McArthur of Strathbogie Forest & Garden and turf professional Danny Lewis, landscape contracts manager at Manchester City FC each thought of their experiences at the show.

Danny and Pete taking part in an on-stage panel discussion at Equip

You can also watch in full, Pete and Danny taking part in an on-stage panel discussion entitled The Changing Landscape of Outdoor Power Equipment in the US and the UK. Comprising dealers and professionals from both sides of the Atlantic, the debate was chaired by regular Service Dealer columnist Sara Hey of dealer training specialists Bob Clements International, and highlighted where our industries both intersect and diverge.

Elsewhere Service Dealer owner Duncan Murray-Clarke catches up with a variety of exhibitors that caught our eye across the vast showfloors and editor Steve Gibbs sits down for a chat with the director of the OPEI, Kris Kiser, to discuss the show and the wider U.S industry.

Steve Gibbs talking to the OPEI's Kris Kiser

Steve said, "This Digital Special Report will give our UK-based dealer readers a real sense of what this remarkable show is truly like for visitors arriving from our side of the pond. 

"Certainly the consensus from our contingent who travelled to Louisville this autumn was that if UK dealers could afford the time away from the business for a few days – and of course the travel and accommodation expenses – a trip to Equip is well worth the effort. Not everything seen will make its way to our shores, but there is more than enough there to offer genuine inspiration."

Visit Service Dealer's Equip Digital Special Report.