Mascus Enters The South African Market of Used Machinery

Mascus, the Pan-European marketplace for construction, agricultural and material-handling machinery to forestry and groundscare machines, transportation vehicles has opened an office in the Republic of South Africa.

The South African office marks the first Mascus office outside Europe and the 25th office Mascus has established worldwide. “In 2008, we have been constantly expanding our European presence and have opened another eight European countries to the Mascus brand,” says Fredrik Larsson, Mascus’ managing director. “With the new office in South Africa we are no longer only a truly Pan-European marketplace for used machinery, as we are entering new continent.”

The new Mascus office is opened in partnership with the South African classified media company Junk Mail Publishing. Junk Mail Publishing runs various Internet marketplaces for buying and selling from used and new cars, trucks, trailers, plant machinery and motorcycles to jobs, real estates and other horizontal classified portals and publications.

Junk Mail Publishing has appointed John L. Smith to the position of Mascus South African Country and sales manager, and he has already started selling Mascus’ services on the South African market. “Even though the South African Mascus Web site, www.mascus.co.za, is running from just three weeks, there are already local African dealers placing used construction machines, trucks, tractors, harvesters, forklifts and groundscare machines,” Smith says.