Briggs Equipment UK Ltd is the only national distributor of Caterpillar ® Counterbalance and Warehouse equipment in the UK. Briggs provide market leading products, superior service, unrivalled maintenance and support, 24 hours-a-day, 7 days a week on a nationwide basis.

Formerly Finning Materials Handling, Briggs Equipment UK became part of Sammons Enterprises in September 2006. Sammons Enterprises is a diversified holding company with interests in industrial and construction equipment as well as insurance and hospitality. With assets in excess of $26 billion, Sammons Enterprise is a diversified conglomerate, ranking among the largest privately owned companies in the world. The core of the company reflects proven operational expertise surrounded by a foundation of ethics and values.

When Briggs Equipment became part of Sammons Enterprises, a new intranet solution was needed. Having had an intranet for several years Briggs were quite specific with the requirements for their replacement system. Initially Briggs looked at developing in house intranet and then a Microsoft SharePoint solution. They quickly realised that they didn’t have the time or resources required to implement and develop this approach so that it delivered the functionality the business required.

Sally Baker, Marketing Manager commented: “From our experience of intranets we had a clear understanding of the functionality requirements the business demanded. We found the SORCE solution was able to deliver all the functionality we needed right out of the box. Everything from the branding to the customisation of applications was all completed within our timescales meaning that we could hit the ground running.”

John Nicklin, Sales and Marketing Director for SORCE said: “Briggs is a good example of how having a clear plan can enable an organisation to implement an intranet quickly and effectively. The functionality that Briggs required was easily proved by the applications within the SORCE Intranet. The ease of customisation enabled Briggs to brand their intranet to reflect the new ownership throughout the system.”