To support its 2025 aims, Hendrik Veder Group UK has appointed two key positions in strategic locations across the UK. Ahead of the new year, Hendrik Veder Group UK’s management team has explored options to strengthen its position within critical growth markets nationally and become an all-in-one service provider encompassing lifting, rigging, and towing.
Through these two new appointments, the firm will optimise the support it provides its clientele in each service line while bolstering its position in markets such as marine, industrial, construction, and utilities.
Advantage of marine markets
At the same time, Travis Halliday joins its Aberdeen team as North East Sales Manager
Representing Hendrik Veder Group UK in England, Jack Harris has been appointed Business Development Manager. At the same time, Travis Halliday joins its Aberdeen team as North East Sales Manager.
Experienced in each of the industries that Hendrik Veder Group UK is looking to target, Jack will utilise his background to help his new employer take advantage of England’s marine and industry markets, providing greater access to the nation’s large network of ports. Alongside the terminals it supports in Scotland, Hendrik Veder Group UK is looking to deliver its lifting, rigging, and towing expertise to a wider variety of ports throughout the country.
Additional appointments in Hendrik Veder Group’s sales team
Jack’s appointment aligns with the English market's preference to work with local service providers. He will be responsible for expanding Hendrik Veder Group’s sales team in England via additional appointments in the new year.
As a city local, Travis will integrate into the Group’s established Aberdeen sales team to champion and service its portfolio of oil and gas clients in Scotland and the North Sea. Travis will help Hendrik Veder Group UK on several key industry contract wins commencing in the new year to supply lifting and rigging products, steel wire rope, fibre ropes and slings to energy projects throughout the region.
Industry challenges
Jack’s appointment aligns with the English market's preference to work with local service providers
Discussing how the appointments will fit into Hendrik Veder Group UK’s 2025 objectives, Managing Director Bertwin Zonneveld commented: “Jack and Travis bring unique perspectives and skill sets to support the industries we are targeting."
"We have established ourselves as a pioneering provider of steel wire and fibre rope to the country’s oil and gas market, and this is something we are looking to maintain despite industry challenges out of our control. Travis will be integral to supporting our oil and gas clientele, which includes some of the industry’s biggest names."
New avenues of growth
Zonneveld added: "To complement our oil and gas output while achieving new avenues of growth, Jack’s expertise and background will provide us with exciting opportunities to target marine ports across England alongside the construction and utilities industries. England’s marine market is significantly larger than Scotland’s, and while we plan to continue supporting those north of the border, the potential that the English market has for our services is immense."
"Jack will be at the heart of our continued expansion in England, working with our network of local suppliers and distributors. With these two appointments and the potential to grow our England and Scotland sales teams in the new year, we are adopting a multifaceted approach to our UK position.”
