NEWS FROM THE NETWORK THE GOLD STANDARD
THE GOLD STANDARD JCB Powertrain partners are setting the standard in sales and service with a succession of key award wins.
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ach year the Power Progress Summit hosts its prestigious awards ceremony which represents the pinnacle of achievement for the OEM engine sector. Specifically, the Engine Distributor of the Year category recognises the distributors which excelled through the previous year with expanding sales, world-class customer service and innovative dealings with OEMs. These qualities are the hallmarks which JCB Powertrain looks for in its engine distributor network, so it is with great pride that our partners are making a habit of winning. This recent dynasty began in 2021 when Brinkmann & Niemeijer (B&N) – JCB Powertrain distributor for Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany – was crowned International Engine Distributor of the Year. Then the following year, Pitteri Violini Spa, which is the JCB Powertrain distributor for Italy and San Marino, succeeded them. Now in the latest edition of the awards, Engine Power Inc. has scooped the North American Distributor of the Year. Here we take a closer look at the recent winners who are making a positive difference each side of the Atlantic.
porters, crushers and harvesting equipment. Galvanised by its prestigious award win, the business has gone from strength to strength. Leonardo Zappella, Managing Director of Pitteri Violini Spa, said: “We were proud to be nominated for this award and even more delighted to win it. It highlights our continued development as a business which has been further strengthened over recent years since joining forces with JCB Powertrain. “That move has given us a prestigious, strong and well-known engine manufacturer above 50 kW to promote in Italy and San Marino through our network. Italian OEMs now benefit from the highest quality products combined with the expertise and rapid support they have come to expect from us.”
AMERICAN MUSCLE Engine Power Inc. was one of JCB Powertrain’s very first US distributors, joining forces with us in 2012. With locations in Wisconsin and Ohio, they serve the greater Great Lakes region on our behalf. Engine Power’s engineering capabilities are industry leading, providing their OEM clients with bespoke technical solutions. Engine Power Inc. President, Brian Paulin said: “Engine Power was honoured to be named THE ITALIAN JOB Established for nearly 100 years, Pitteri Violini ‘2023 Distributor of the Year – North America’ Spa is a family-owned business which delivers a by Power Progress. As a value-added service range of services including parts supply, servic- company that relies upon having excellent people ing and manufacturing alongside the provision available to satisfy our customers’ varied and comof power solutions to OEM customers. The plex needs, this award affirms the efforts of our company has extensive in-house engineering knowledgeable and dedicated team of employees. expertise and specialises in creating, testing and “In addition, it affirms Engine Power’s considcustomising bespoke systems to meet the exact erable investments (over the past 43 years) to develop our engine package designs, engineering needs of its customer base. It has built significant market share in the sup- systems, product support systems and regulaply of power systems for water pumps, trans- tory compliance systems.”
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Leonardo Zappella, Managing Director of Pitteri Violini Spa.
Engine Power Inc. President, Brian Paulin.