British made Allett Mowers are the choice for a number of the FIFA
World Cup football venues in Russia.
Allett is supplying a total of over 185 units of mowers and
accessories across eight stadiums and 13 official training grounds.
The process of taking Britain to Russia and winning the mower
business for the World Cup venues started about two years ago when Allett’s
Export Sales Manager, Dave Allett, made a series of presentations at two
seminars and demonstration days.
Allett’s Russian distributor Unisaw followed this up by investing
in demonstration machinery and carried out more demonstrations at the stadiums
and training grounds. Unisaw are a particularly strong dealer and it was the
combination of Allett products and Unisaw’s supply and support that resulted in
success.
“I recently participated at a wonderfully well-run and attended
seminar in Moscow, all organised by Unisaw” says Dave, “and took the
opportunity to present Alexander Markin, the CEO of Unisaw Group, with two
awards, one for outstanding sales achievement - Russia was our biggest single
export market last year - and the second for service excellence.”
Dave attributes this great British success story to the products
being chosen for their ease of use and high performance, which makes them ideal
for sports turf surfaces, coupled with the exceptional sales efforts of Unisaw.
"We offer a comprehensive solution: high-quality equipment for the care of
football fields and constant service support, and our partnership with Allett
is a very important part of this.
"Our
company has all the necessary skills and takes great responsibility. We are
ready and willing to share this with the stadiums, both before and after the
games. Our specialists will work very hard on a special schedule, travelling to
the facilities to assist at any time." Says Alexander Markin, CEO of
Unisaw Group. The main mowers supplied to the stadiums and training grounds are
the Allett C34, together with cartridge accessories, the Regal 36, Buffalo 34
and RM34 models.
The Allett C34, in the Allett professional mower range and powered
by the Honda GX200 engine, offers in one machine the capability of performing
up to eight different turf tasks. The cartridge head options include a six or
eight blade cutting cylinder, powered scarifier, verticutter, brush, sorrel
roller, turf rake and scarifier.
The Regal is regarded by groundsmen around the world as the
ultimate large area dedicated mower for sports grounds, cricket pitches and
other large grass areas. Hydrostatic forward and reverse drive with infinitely
variable mowing speeds, power steering and compatibility with an optional
trailing seat, combine to make it the prime choice for precision mowing with
sharp, defined stripes on the turf.
The RM34 is a rotary stadium mower, which was designed around
feedback from stadium groundsmen, with a full width rear roller to produce
perfect pitch stripes. The twin contra-rotating blades and high lift system
vacuum speedily and efficiently lifting debris, providing busy grounds staff
with greater capability in the post match clear up, and for mowing higher when
grass is being grown in.
Most of the eight Russian stadiums such as Kaliningrad,
Rostov-on-don, Ekaterinburg and Saransk, to name but a few, ordered three
Allett C34’s and two Regals each. Sochi Fisht stadium has four Allett C34’s,
two Allett Buffalos and four Allett RM34 mowers. The Unisaw supplied training
fields took thirty C34’s and fourteen RM34’s between them.
