West Midlands-based Totalkare, which specialises in the supply, service and maintenance of two- and four-post vehicle lifts, mobile column lifts and fork-lifter ramp systems, is spending £750,000 on a new ERP system and moving the business to a new purpose-built site near its current facility in Halesowen.

This comes as the company — previously known as Somers Handling, Somers Vehicle Lifts and Somers Totalkare — celebrates 40 years of supplying heavy-duty vehicle lifts to UK customers involved in the bus and coach, commercial motor and heavy haulage sectors.

Managing director David Hall (www.totalkare.co.uk), who led a management buy-out (MBO) of the company in May 2018, said: “We felt it was the right time to lay the foundations for our next four decades.

“The business will always be based on the founding principles of customer care and being experts in our field, so we want to put a marker in the sand for the next stage of our development.

“We have already started the process of implementing a new ERP system that will give us lots of internal and external efficiency improvements, and this will pave the way for our relocation.

“In total, this is a significant spend for us, and we are in the final stages of negotiations on a great location that is close to our current home.

"It’s a necessary move to give us the ability to optimise the workflow on the shopfloor and increase our capacity to hold a stock of mobile column lifts, brake testers, headlamp testers and other future products.”