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CFAO Displays JCB Equipment, Flaunts Quality
Photo Caption L-R: Victor Igiebor, Sales Manager, JCB; Olivier Jacq of CFAO
Thomas Pelletier, Country Delegate/Managing Director, CFAO Nigeria; Laurent Friedrich, General Manager, CFAO Equipment; Kunle Jaiyesimi, Deputy Managing Director, CFAO Motors; Robin Guest, JCB Excavator Specialist for Africa, Russia and Middle East; and Ilias Chater, JCB District Sales Manager, West and Central Africa; at the JCB Open Day and Machine Demonstration hosted by CFAO at the Federal Palace hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos…Thursday, January 23, 2020.
CFAO Equipment recently organized a machine demonstration day in collaboration with JCB officials.
CFAO Equipment is a subsidiary of the CFAO Group and authorized distributor of JCB Construction Equipment in Nigeria.
The event held on Thursday 23rd of January at the Federal Palace Hotel. It was a gathering of industry stakeholders, customers and representatives of the two companies.
JCB District Sales Manager, West, and Central Africa, ILIAS Chater, revealed that “we selected CFAO as our partner because they can represent us well and provide quality after-sales service, and we thank our customers for their continuous patronage’. He added that JCB has launched new models of construction equipment suitable for the African Market with minimal electronics, fuel efficiency, adaptable to different sulphuric fuel levels, and easy to maintain.
In the course of the event, CFAO donated a cheque of N150,000.00 to a young Nigerian, Idorenyin Francis Emmanuel. He constructed a prototype of an Excavator labelled with the JCB logo. Thomas Pelletier, the Country Delegate/Managing Director of CFAO Nigeria, said CFAO’s gesture was “ a way of encouraging Emmanuel in his education and innovation”.
Some of the JCB products distributed by CFAO in Nigeria include; Backhoe loaders, Tracked and wheeled Excavators, Teletrucks, Wheel Loaders, Vibromax, and Telehandler.
