Lewmar establishes new distributor in Taiwan

by Media Services on 19 Jan 2007 Lewmar, the U.K. based international marine equipment manufacturer, effective this month. Marineware will be working under Lewmar Australasia Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary, in Sydney, Australia.

The appointment was announced today by Lewmar Australasia Pty Ltd Managing Director Carl Crafoord. Marineware Asia will be based in Taipei and will be responsible for business development for Lewmar and Navtec in Taiwan and China. All sales inquiries will be handled by the new Taiwan sales representative, Vincent Pang.

The announcement is part of Lewmar’s commitment to expand its business globally, especially in the rapidly expanding Taiwan market. Lewmar’s Carl Crafoord adds, 'We plan to establish a bonded warehouse in Taiwan enabling us to supply the busy Taiwanese yards quickly. Between our inventory in Taiwan, supplemented by an extensive stock in Sydney, we expect to provide near same day response to any product request.'

For further inquiries contact Greg Butchart at gregb@lewmar.com.au or Vincent
Pang at vincent@lewmar.com.au Taipei office tel. +886 2 2618 8342 or mobile +886 938 991 037.

Lewmar, the world’s premier leisure marine equipment supplier, designs, manufactures and distributes winches, hardware, hatches, port lights, steering systems, bow thrusters, anchoring and windlass products, along with other marine hardware. The company is the most recognised name in control-focused boating equipment. In 2006, its OneTouch winch handle won the top DAME award, the most globally competitive prize for marine equipment, at the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam. Manufacturing is located at two sites in the U.K. with sales and assembly offices in France, The Netherlands, Australia, and the U.S. Lewmar also sells through a worldwide network of agents and distributors.