Tool Connection’s Warwickshire-based Tech Centre acts as a hub for the various brands it distributes, including Laser Tools, Power-TEC and Connect Workshop Consumables. With all the equipment needed to hold conferences and training days close at hand, Tool Connection suggests a number of ways the facilities can help its motor factor customers.
The Tool Connection’s facilities make available an impressive range of services to the company’s customers, including a fully stocked showroom, conference centre and technical demonstration area. The adjacent Tech Centre is where the company’s research, development, product testing and product video filming takes place. Many of its tools are designed and developed in-house and produced at its manufacturing plant in Sheffield.
The facility is used by the Tool Connection’s customers in a variety of ways. For example, it is often used as a conference centre, with the Warwickshire address making it an ideal central location for national and regional sales and management meetings.
Technical training is another opportunity; new tools and products can be explained and demonstrated to members of the sales force, giving them an understanding and firm technical knowledge of the tools that they sell. Anything from a brake caliper rewind tool, to an engine timing tool kit for the latest 2017 Range Rover Evoque, can be demonstrated on an actual vehicle or engine.
Increasingly, demonstrations and training seminars on electric and hybrid vehicles are proving popular, as factors are keen to gain the knowledge to advise their staff and customers on the latest developments in this field. Factors can then explain to workshop owners just what is required to set up a dedicated safe working area for high voltage vehicles, with all the equipment necessary available from Laser Tools’ extensive range of insulated tools and workshop safety equipment.
Bodyshop equipment suppliers and factors are also catered for – full blown bodywork repairs are carried out using the latest Power-TEC equipment.
Tim Whittaker, IFA (Independent Motor Trade Factors Associated Limited) Marketing Director, commented, “We regularly hold our regional sales meetings at the Tool Connection. It is an impressive facility, and provides everything we need for meetings, presentations and training. Excellent catering is also provided if required and it is always interesting to see the latest tools from the various Tool Connection brands being displayed and demonstrated.
“The Tech Centre and showroom is impressive, being particularly good from a sales perspective; visitors always leave excited by what they have seen and keen to share it with their customers.”
