Reddish access automation business bolsters parking services provision

Access automation specialists, Bft Automation (based in Reddish), have created a new parking services department to optimise their revenue from this business area.

The creation of a new department will expand on an existing service that Bft Automation has been delivering for some years. The move comes as the more businesses look to new revenue streams in the current economic climate, such as parking charges.

Kevin Spinks, Managing Director at Bft Automation, commented:

In the current environment, businesses in sectors such as hotels and leisure are looking to recoup lost revenue. One tactic to adopt, which can bring some short-term gains – and a long-term income stream – is for businesses to use their parking facilities as a means of driving revenue.

“At Bft Automation, we have been working with businesses for many years to provide parking management technologies and hardware. We felt now was the right time to invest in this side of our business.”

The department will be led parking revenue sales specialist Ron Buck, who joined Bft Automation earlier this year.

Ron has worked in business-to-business sales for over 30 years, with sectors including education, hospitality, leisure, retail and the public sector. His experience in the parking equipment market includes positions at some of the most prominent providers in the market. He said:

In my experience, parking is so often an undervalued means of generating revenue. Even with a minimal charge to visitors, revenue generated from parking is both regular and predictable, with few overheads.

“With expertise in parking access control and parking management systems, Bft has some great  equipment and we are already seeing growth in this side of the business.”

Bft Automation offers a wide range of car park management systems from simple token-operated machines for access control through to fully networked systems which can operate over the Internet and offer multi-site control. The versatile systems can integrate a range of ancillary products such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Automatic Pay Stations (APS) which incorporate the latest payment technology.