Ardent Hire Solutions Blog | Archive 2021
Customer Experience is King
Date: 16/12/21
We aim to create an outstanding experience for customers at every touch point they have with Ardent Hire. The ultimate measure of customer experience is Net Promoter Score (NPS), which is a global, ubiquitous metric where organisations can benchmark... Read More
Why Ardent?
Date: 30/11/21
Ardent Hire is the UK’s premier provider of plant and plant services. With 11 depots and 250 people covering the UK we offer an operated and self-drive fleet of over 5,000 telehandlers, excavators, dumpers, rollers, roto-telehandlers and other... Read More
MORE SUCCESS FOR ARDENT AT THE 2021 BUILDING INNOVATION AWARDS
Date: 08/11/21
Ardent Hire is delighted to announce its success at last week’s Building Innovation Awards where it won “Best Digital Transformation” award for its highly acclaimed Ardent Digital Platform (ADP). Read More
ARDENT WINS THE DIGITAL CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARD AT THE 2021 CONSTRUCTION NEWS SPECIALIST AWARDS
Date: 22/10/21
Ardent is excited to announce its success at the 2021 Construction News Specialist Awards where it won the Digital Construction Excellence Award for its customer portal Ardent InSite (AI). Read More
Sustainable Plant Hire from Ardent Hire Solutions
Date: 15/10/21
Ardent is the only plant hire company in the UK to offer a sustainable plant hire service. Our approach has four guiding principles: Read More
Ardent launches employee car carbon offsetting scheme
Date: 06/10/21
As part of its carbon reduction strategy Ardent is pleased to announce the launch of its carbon offsetting initiative for privately owned and company owned cars. Read More
ARDENT SCOOPS DOUBLE HONOURS AT THE 2021 EUROPEAN RENTAL ASSOCIATION AWARDS IN AMSTERDAM
Date: 01/10/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is delighted to announce that it has won two awards at the 2021 European Rental Association (ERA) Awards. Read More
ARDENT IS SHORTLISTED AT THE 2021 BUILDING INNOVATION AWARDS IN FIVE CATEGORIES
Date: 28/09/21
Ardent is delighted to have been shortlisted at this year's 2021 Building Innovation Awards in five categories. Read More
Carbon Neutral Deliveries and Collections for a Second Year Running
Date: 21/09/21
Ardent Hire is pleased to announce that it has offset the emissions from its 55 x HGV fleet with ClimateCare for a second year running. Ardent’s investment offsets 4,475 tonnes of CO2 meaning that all customer deliveries and collections are carbon... Read More
Ardent offsets the carbon emissions from its entire roto-telehandler fleet
Date: 21/09/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is delighted to announce that from 1st October 2021 all roto-telehandler hires will be carbon neutral at no additional cost to customers. Read More
How the Ardent App Helps Site Managers
Date: 25/08/21
Until recently, the job of the site manager was becoming busier and more complicated every year. Fortunately, all of that has now changed, thanks to the innovative new app from Ardent Hire. Read More
Ardent is nominated as a finalist at the 2021 Housebuilder Awards
Date: 24/08/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is thrilled to have been shortlisted as the only plant-hire company at the 2021 Housebuilder Awards in the category ‘subcontractor/services provider of the year’. Our nomination recognises the role we have played in... Read More
How the Ardent App Makes Everything Easier
Date: 17/08/21
When we came to design the Ardent App, we had one simple aim: to make life easier on-site for everyone. Not just easier to organise everything from site health and safety, reporting breakdowns, to self-maintenance and finding solutions to fix common... Read More
What do we stand for at Ardent?
Date: 16/08/21
We provide a personal and friendly service at all levels in our organisation. We’re open, transparent and fair. We listen and we help. Everyone, and we mean everyone, in our organisation is here to serve customers. We all love serving customers... Read More
How the Ardent App helps with breakdowns
Date: 23/07/21
We’re proud of our Reliability Promise, and we go out of our way to live up to, and exceed, your expectations on each and every hire and plant sales service. Read More
How the Ardent App helps site workers
Date: 16/07/21
The new Ardent app has revolutionised the daily routine for thousands of contract plant hire UK workers up and down the country. Read More
Ardent is shortlisted at the 2021 Construction News Specialist Awards
Date: 15/07/21
Ardent is thrilled to have been selected as a finalist at the 2021 Construction News Specialist Awards in no less than FIVE categories. Read More
Ardent helps Countryside become first UK developer to widely adopt artificial intelligence proximity cameras
Date: 06/07/21
Working in collaboration with Safety Shield Global and Ardent Hire Solutions, all forklift telehandlers across Countryside construction sites and factories will be fitted with these state-of-the-art cameras. The cameras will be able to detect a... Read More
Free Training On The Ardent App
Date: 28/06/21
The Ardent app has been big with site managers and foremen because it makes life so much easier. With access to over £200million worth of top-quality equipment at the touch of a button, all with an average age of under two years, it has... Read More
Introducing The Ardent Plant Hire App
Date: 14/06/21
Ardent Hire Solutions are delighted to launch a brand-new app designed to make life easier than ever for plant hire customers. We are constantly updating the Ardent app with exciting new features to make your contract plant hire UK experience even... Read More
Ardent Hire announces shortlisting at the 2021 Construction News Awards
Date: 11/06/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted at this year’s Construction News Awards in the two categories of “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” and “Health, Safety and Well-being Excellence”. Read More
Ardent acts on sustainability
Date: 09/06/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is thrilled to have received the “Best Sustainability and CSR” Award at this year’s Hire Excellence Awards provided by the Hire Association of Europe (HAE). Ardent Hire’s carbon offsetting programme, in conjunction with... Read More
The benefits of a modern fleet
Date: 24/05/21
Ardent’s fleet is one of the most modern and best specified in the industry. Having spent over £250m on new equipment in the last 4 years Ardent shows no signs of slowing its investment as shown by its recent order for over 500 telehandlers from... Read More
ARDENT HIRE IS RECOGNISED AT THE HAE AND IIRSM AWARDS
Date: 21/05/21
Ardent is thrilled to have won ‘Best Sustainability & CSR Award’ at the 2021 Hire Association of Europe (HAE) Awards and been highly commended by judges in the 'Hire Product of the Year' category. On the same night, Ardent was highly commended... Read More
Big enough to have clout, small enough to offer a personal and friendly service
Date: 10/05/21
It might seem obvious that the best plant suppliers are those that can provide quality equipment when you need it. However, in our industry the reality is that there are few that do this with any degree of reliability. Read More
Four reasons to froth about FORS
Date: 07/05/21
There are plenty of reasons to get excited by FORS, which is short for the Fleet Operators’ Recognition Scheme. Here are just four: Read More
ARDENT IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIRE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPE (HAE) AWARDS IN TWO CATEGORIES
Date: 26/04/21
Ardent is thrilled to have been shortlisted in two categories at the 2021 Hire Association of Europe (HAE) Awards. Read More
Ardent is shortlisted for the European Rental Association and International Rental News Awards in three categories
Date: 14/04/21
Ardent is thrilled to have been shortlisted in three categories at the 2021 European Rental Association (ERA) and the International Rental News (IRN) Awards. Read More
Ardent Hire’s roto-telehandler business is in a league of its own
Date: 13/04/21
It’s like Ardent has been on the hard shoulder of the motorway and then overnight suddenly catapulted into the fast lane such is the pace of its roto-telehandler business right now which has grown beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. And this... Read More
The effectiveness of NPS
Date: 06/04/21
There’s a lot of talk about NPS in the hire industry right now as hire providers are increasingly using customer satisfaction and advocacy to promote their services. Ardent has played a leading role in this having implemented NPS at the beginning... Read More
Ardent Hire Solutions is shortlisted as a finalist in the IIRSM Risk Excellence Awards 2021: Technology Risk Management Initiative of the Year.
Date: 30/03/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM) Risk Excellence Awards 2021 in the category of Technology Risk Management Initiative of... Read More
UK’S BIGGEST TELEHANDLER HIRER PLACES £26 MILLION LOADALL ORDER
Date: 16/03/21
Ardent Hire Solutions is adding 525 new JCB Loadall telescopic handlers to its fleet as the UK construction hire equipment market rebounds strongly from the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
Cyber security from Ardent Hire Solutions
Date: 12/03/21
Keeping your IT systems safe and secure can be a complex task and requires time, resource and specialist knowledge. As hackers get smarter, the need to protect digital assets and network devices is even greater. While providing IT security can be... Read More
Ardent oozes quality and safety with its impressive list of certifications
Date: 22/02/21
Ardent is certified to ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 through Alcumus. We are also SSIP certified. We are members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and have been awarded Gold for the past 2-years which was our point of... Read More
Ardent’s Operated Hire Proposition Wows the Industry
Date: 17/02/21
Ardent’s operated plant proposition continues to go from strength to strength. Customer numbers are growing daily and Ardent has been inundated with requests from experienced operators wanting to join the team. Read More
Ardent announces the launch of Site Manager Assistant
Date: 08/02/21
Ardent is pleased to announce the launch of Site Manager Assistant, a software utility that is part of Ardent’s multi-award-winning Site Manager suite. Site Manager Assistant prioritises safety and machine alerts according to their impact on... Read More
Ardent’s Passion, Pace and Performance is shining for the whole world to see.
Date: 29/01/21
Like a shining star in the darkest of nights, Ardent’s Passion, Pace and Performance sparkles above everyone else’s and sets the standard for outstanding customer service and a spectacular customer experience. Nothing less than this is... Read More
Ardent Hire leads the way in innovation
Date: 04/01/21
In addition to having one of the youngest and best equipped fleets in the country we also have a portfolio of innovations that help customers get the best value out of their hires. As well as helping them to save time and money our innovations are... Read More
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