News Release
Valente wins “Best Self-Erecting Cranes Sales Progression” award
5/4/2018
Long-term Potain partner Valente Grue Assistance has received the Manitowoc Award for “Best Self-Erecting Cranes Sales Progression 2017” after achieving outstanding sales results last year.
Valente was presented with the award by Manitowoc executive vice president Aaron Ravenscroft during an awards ceremony at Intermat Paris 2018. Orlando Mota, vice president of sales for Europe and Africa at Manitowoc, was also present to give the award.
Established in 1979, Valente is a leading tower crane sales and rental company based in Belley, near Lyon. The company has represented Potain since 1996 and now operates a fleet of 400 Potain tower cranes, which it supplies to customers across the Rhône Alpes region.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc”) was founded in 1902 and has over a 117-year tradition of providing high-quality products and support services that are tailored to customers’ needs. Its 2019 net sales were approximately $1.83 billion. Manitowoc is one of the world's leading providers of engineered lifting solutions. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Manitowoc designs, manufactures, markets and supports comprehensive product lines of mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, boom trucks and industrial cranes under the Grove, Potain, Manitowoc, National Crane, Shuttlelift and Manitowoc Crane Care brand names.