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Celebrating 50 years of GAP /

Image from GAP’s Top 50 campaign
which has evolved into the Club 100.

GAP Vehicle Hire’s fleet of 4,000 commercials available for hire.

In 2006, a further initiative was launched the overall aim of offering major
- unrivalled then by any other national construction companies a ‘one stop
hirer in the UK - with the introduction service’. Plans were temporarily put
of the Guaranteed Availability Promise. on hold, however, with the global
Here, GAP promised to have the Top 50 financial crisis of 2008. It wasn’t until
Tools available for immediate collection the following year that GAP set up its
from a customer’s nearest depot, or Non-Mechanical Plant division in Shotts,
delivery within four hours of an order North Lanarkshire, stocking items
being placed. ranging from barriers and fencing, to
The same year GAP acquired J & S Plant trench sheets and traffic separators.
in Lincoln - an important move to help In 2008, Douglas’ son Mark was the first
improve GAP’s coverage in the North of the third generation of the Anderson
East of England. family to join the business, with

By 2007, GAP had achieved its goal of Maureen’s daughter Karen following
national coverage for plant and tool in 2009.
hire. The next stage was to diversify
and create specialist divisions, with

BY 2009

NO. OF DEPOTS 59
NO. OF STAFF 822
TURNOVER £81M
GBV OF TOTAL
FIXED ASSETS £186M
Mind the GAP: Douglas and Iain at the
annual sales conference, 2006.
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