Hello everyone it's Austin Jarrett from Allett Mowers and at this time of year we like to give an
annual overview of where we've been for those of you that are interested. Of course this has been
a another corona year and of course that makes it very difficult for so many of us
but what has happened is a second year of so many people being at home and in their gardens and
I have to say that has certainly been good for for people that are wanting to up their game on their
lawns and for those people of course that's been a good year for Allett Mowers as well.
So this year we've in particular launched a new Allett website I hope everybody's enjoyed that
and in the UK that has meant you can retail and and buy directly from our website and of
course we've enjoyed a stronger than ever support from from the dealer network not only in the UK,
Europe wide, worldwide dealers that are able to support and sharpen our products to make sure that
you get the best and the longest service life out of the product.The USA site has also been launched
that has been extraordinarily successful and our striped lawns competition that we in particular
always look forward to each year amazing results and this year's winner it was Dennis West from
the USA. We had entries this year from a record breaking 10 different countries and we're seeing
this striped lawn fanaticism spread as it should all around the world. Of course that's meant
actually growth for this company and we've been able to welcome several new members of staff in
order to strengthen and expand the capacity of our team and also of course to help us develop
new and exciting products. Our export markets have also grown USA, Australia and Germany have all
been really growing markets and this year we've also had a change in Germany we've appointed a
new distributor in literally the last 10 days so we're very pleased to welcome Wassenberg
a really great distributor who will be looking after Germany for us and the growing market that
we have there so so welcome on board. Qatar of course ready for the world cup preparations has
of course been very significant to this business as well for our professional products.
At the beginning of November we had the Saltex show and we launched a brand new product called
the Stirling and we designed that product as a result of all the customer requests
for a product that was battery powered and we've seen a very significant change in the
last two years to the sales of battery mowers now exceeding half of our products that we sell
and the Stirling product has has just really touched the spot i think from from our lawn
fanatic customers that wanted to step it up to another level and as a result we decided we were
going to make 500 of these machines in the launch year in 2022 and we'd sold out of those literally
in three days so that was an extraordinary vote of support on the product and the products features
so we're already in progress now to double that for now for 2022 season. So again more growth and
more business in our little factory here at Hixon in Staffordshire in England. We returned to Saltex
at the beginning of November as i said and it's so great, it's been three years since we were there
and it's just been great to meet our customers in the flesh again and to see what they're up
to and to of course shake hands with people again which it feels like so long since we've done that.
So battery power at that show as well was shown in all our competitors products
and other garden machinery and sports turf machinery. Battery is really the big thing
moving forward. We participated in the Eco village and the Eco village allowed us to present the
the advantages of switching towards battery and it was all in the COP 26 week as well where we
were all talking about the environment and where battery power electrical power in particular
really plays its part in making sure that more of these icebergs don't melt. So please follow us on
our social media and also on our website and catch the very latest news from Allett Mowers and what
we're going to be doing in the 2022 season.Please subscribe to our YouTube channel where i hope you
can see we're still growing our content there and we really enjoy the contributions that you make
in the comments as well they're really helpful to all the watchers of YouTube. We've got great plans
in the springtime to get back out into the garden and the lawn and especially to show you what the
capabilities are of the new Stirling product and also what we're doing with other products as well.
So please share this information with all your friends we really need all your help we
really really thank you for all of your support. I particularly want to say thank
you to the employees at Allett Mowers without you we would not have been able to get through this
really difficult year and to turn in some great results. Thank you to you our customers to our
dealer network as well and our distributors around the world. Our suppliers have had a really tough
time we are not great to negotiate with if you want to delay a delivery, we're quite insistent
because our customers are quite insistent and so thanks for bearing with us all our supply network
as well. So have a great Christmas I wish you a really happy 2022 and let's hope we can start to
see that we get this coronavirus behind us but in the meantime please stay safe and
please remain part of our great community of passionate lawn care people thank you.