Honda’s prize helps expand hire company Success in a Honda competition is helping South Australian equipment hire company, Barossa Valley Hire, expand its services. During the 2012 Hire and Rental Industry Association (HRIA) Convention, Honda Engines gave attendees the chance to win their choice of either a commercial hire package, or a motorbike and scooter combination in the Green and Gold Approved competition. Honda’s Green and Gold Approved program identifies products that are powered by a genuine Honda engine that has been specifically matched with the product, are built for Australian conditions and comply with Australian engineering and environmental standards. HRIA attendees who identified four or more exhibitors displaying Green and Gold Approved symbols went into the draw to win the prize. While the motorcycles were tempting,
Barossa Valley Hire opted for the garden care package of a Honda UMK425L brushcutter, an HRU196 lawnmower and an HHB25 leaf blower. The prize was valued at more than $2000 and has been put to good use in the company’s recently-opened equipment hire business on the Yorke Peninsula. Barossa Valley Hire’s Travis Burton said it was a shock to win the prize but after the initial shock wore off, he and his parents made a business decision to choose the power equipment, rather than the motorbike and scooter. “We chose the garden package because we recently opened a new branch of our hire business in the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, called YP Hire,” Burton said. Burton said his parents established Barossa Valley Hire when he was only a few months old. And now, 18 years later, it was Travis’ idea to pursue the new business venture in the Yorke Peninsula.
Ben McNamara of Valley Power Equipment presents the Honda garden care package to Travis Burton.
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