by Richard Cosgrove | Wed 02 Jul 2025
Thwaites appoint Fitzgerald Plant Services to distributor network
Thwaites has announced the expansion of its distributor network, with the appointment of Fitzgerald Plant Services, the Cwmbran, South Wales based rail and construction equipment sales specialist.
Founded in 2007 by Liza and Chris Fitzgerald, the company has enjoyed rapid growth with the business now operating from four UK sites and employing over 100 people. Today the business provides product sale solutions to several established markets such as rail, construction, forestry, recycling and quarrying.
With a distributor territory covering southeast Wales and north Wales, Fitzgerald Plant Services will bring a wealth of experience and knowledge as the business adds Thwaites dumpers to its existing machine sales distributorships of Sany Excavators, OKB Attachments and TAFE Tractors.
The company has a significant interest in the rail sector, appointed as it was in 2018 as the sole maintenance contractor to Network Rail. In addition, the business has numerous sale distributorships for rail specific machine solutions, that include Unimog and Isuzu.
Fitzgerald Sales Director Simon Richards said, “Having become established as a Sany distributor, we are keen to develop our distributorship portfolio by offering customers more choice and convenience. A dumper and excavator combination not only improves our offer but reduces our customers transaction cost”.
Mr Richards continued…” After a considered search for a dumper partner, we surveyed our customers and from the feedback we received around safety, quality, reliability and service, we concluded that Thwaites would be the perfect fit to strengthen our position in the market…We can’t wait to get started”.
Thwaites Distributor Manager Paul Rodwell said, “We are delighted to welcome Fitzgerald to the Thwaites distributor network, I am looking forward to working with Simon and this dynamic business as we look to further improve market share across the full range of dumpers”.
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