With Grupo NC/Ontieleva, Clark has brought a new contract partner for Spain on board. Ontieleva is taking over the sales activities for Clark Europe in the province of Valencia. With this strategic step, Clark wants to further expand its sales activities on the Spanish market.

Grupo NC/Ontieleva, founded in 1995 with its headquarters in Ontinyent and a branch in Beniparrell near Valencia, specialises in the sale, rental, maintenance, and repair of materials handling vehicles. Today, the company employs a total of 20 people in sales, workshop, vehicle and spare parts warehouse and administration.

Ontieleva offers its customers the complete Clark range of services. In addition to the sale of all forklift classes and warehouse technology vehicles, this also includes the Clark spare parts and accessories supply. An extensive range of services including rental and financing as well as a comprehensive service for Clark new and used materials handling vehicles rounds off the range of services.

”We are delighted to welcome Ontieleva to our team. In Ontieleva we have found an excellent partner with sound know-how in the field of materials handling vehicles for the province of Valencia. With Ontieleva, customers in the region will have another competent partner at their side in the future,” says Rolf Eiten, President & CEO at Clark Europe.

“We are very pleased to have been able to conclude a cooperation agreement with Clark Europe, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of materials handling vehicles. This partnership is an important step in our strategy to offer our customers comprehensive and high-quality solutions for their logistics processes,” explains Javier Niñerola, Managing Director Grupo NC/Ontieleva. “Clark has an extensive range of powerful and safe materials handling vehicles that can be used in a wide variety of industries and applications. In addition, Clark provides us with excellent technical support with regular product training. This enables us to offer our customers a highly qualified service. We are convinced that the cooperation will pay off for both sides and that together we can expand our market position in the Spanish market.”

Since the forklift was invented by Eugene Clark in Buchanan, Michigan (USA) in 1917, CLARK has been one of the worldwide market leaders in the materials handling vehicles business. With more than 100 years of experience in the materials handling vehicles sector and over 1.4 million forklifts sold worldwide, the CLARK brand, which is proud of its roots in America, is associated with modern and robust product design, progressive, sophisticated technology and excellent customer service. Since 2003, CLARK has been part of the South Korean Young An Group based in Bucheon and offers a complete product portfolio consisting of forklifts with electric power or internal combustion engines and load capacities of 1.5 to 8 tons, narrow-aisle forklifts, warehouse equipment and an extensive range of services.

CLARK Material Handling International (CMHI) with its head office in Bucheon, South Korea, is currently represented worldwide at more than 480 locations in over 90 nations. The operations are managed at four headquarters around the world. Production is assembled according to European quality standards at plants in Korea, the United States, Vietnam and China. With 180 Clark dealers in 60 countries, CLARK Europe GmbH is one of four subsidiaries of CMHI and serves the regions of Europe, the Middle East and Africa from its headquarters in Duisburg, Germany.