A Major Player in the global construction market MANITOU and the construction market

In 2006 the MANITOU Group, the world leader in all-terrain handling, passed the billion Euro turnover mark (1,128 million ?), with 53 % of this being in the construction sector.

MANITOU's major clients are from the building sectors: brickwork contractors, roofing businesses, carpentry companies and builder's merchants etc.

Marcel BRAUD, the father of the current Chairman of the Board of Directors, designed and created the first MANITOU, a fork lift truck, which entered production in 1958.
Ten years later MANITOU was manufacturing its 10,000th truck.

New products for changing needs
In the 80s, Manitou, always striving to hear what its customers have to say, responded to their demands for variable reach equipment by launching the MANISCOPIC range of telescopic trucks. Ten years later lateral engine MANISCOPIC high reach trucks were to follow.
Today there are more than 50 MANITOU brand models dedicated to the construction sector.

High levels of performance and demands, true tests of quality
Faced with a market which is continually undergoing change, MANITOU is investing in the development of all of its product ranges.

Even higher, even further, with ever more specific requirements, the world leader in all-terrain handling is one of the few manufacturers who can offer such a wide range of handling solutions; and not only in the construction sector.

There are special characteristics associated with MANITOU Group products: multi-purpose uses, motive power, compactness, accessibility, flexibility, as well as visibility and safety.