Martin McVicar is standing on a stage in a room full of some of his most important customers. Behind him, a large screen details the number of machines Combilift, the Monaghan-based forklift manufacturer that he runs, has sold every year for the past 25 years.
Only once in that period, in 2009, have sales volumes fallen for the privately owned engineering company. And the story behind that single drop tells a lot about why Combilift ...