WINNIPEG, Oct. 8, 2017 /CNW/ - (TSX:NFI) New
Flyer Industries Inc. ("NFI Group"), the largest transit bus and
motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, announces a new brand within
its portfolio – NFI Parts™. As previously announced in December of
2016, NFI Group is currently combining the parts operations of the
New Flyer and MCI businesses.
As NFI Group has grown and acquired various Original Equipment
Manufacturers ("OEMs") after sales support has grown with it.
Today, all of the parts sales and support for these OEM products
will be supported under a single brand – NFI Parts. This new brand
represents important activities associated with supporting the OEM
products (buses and coaches), including part sales and support
activities, technical publications, and training.
"Our goal in combining these businesses is to make it easy for
customers to do business with us," said NFI Parts President
Brian Dewsnup. "Together, we have a
more comprehensive parts offering, a larger distribution network,
strong partnerships with a broader supply base, and the opportunity
to share technologies and best practices. We are working to
optimize our ability to deliver the right parts, at the right
price, to the right place, at the right time."
Integration of New Flyer Parts and MCI Parts will continue over
the coming months emerging as NFI Parts with a focus on improved
parts availability and shipping, as the distribution networks are
combined. Additionally, in 2018, customers can expect to see
improvements in the options they have to transact with NFI Parts,
incorporating new e-commerce tools and enhancements to the current
web store located through www.nfi.parts.
While the combined businesses have been rebranded NFI Parts,
this announcement does not impact customers or suppliers with
changes to their primary contacts or transactional processes. All
system-related activities will remain as they are today.
NFI Parts represents the OEM product lines of New Flyer and MCI,
distribution of the Setra brand, and the prior acquisitions of NABI
and the Orion parts business. NFI Parts brings together over 85
years of parts experience and now supports a combined fleet of
72,000 active transit buses and motor coaches. NFI Parts has grown
to serve over 17,000 customers from 15 parts distribution centers
throughout North America.
About NFI Group
NFI Group is the largest transit bus and motor coach
manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, with 31 fabrication,
manufacturing, distribution, and service centers across
Canada and the U.S. employing over
5,600 team members.
It is North America's
heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the largest transit bus
product line under the brand Xcelsior®, incorporating
the broadest range of drive systems available, including: clean
diesel, natural gas, diesel-electric hybrid, trolley-electric, and
battery-electric. NFI Group actively supports over 44,000
heavy-duty transit buses (New Flyer, NABI, and Orion) currently in
service, of which 6,400 are powered by electric and battery
propulsion.
NFI Group is also North
America's motor coach market leader offering the Motor Coach
Industries Inc. (MCI) J-Series, the industry's best-selling
intercity coach for 11 consecutive years, and the MCI D-Series, the
industry's best-selling motor coach line in North American history.
MCI is also the exclusive distributor of Daimler's Setra S 417 and
S 407 motor coaches in the United
States and Canada. MCI
actively supports over 28,000 coaches currently in service.
NFI Group also operates North
America's most comprehensive parts organization, NFI Parts™,
providing parts, technical publications, training, and support for
its OEM product lines (transit buses and motor coaches). All buses
and coaches are also supported by an industry-leading comprehensive
warranty, service, and support network.
Further information is available on NFI Group websites at
www.newflyer.com and www.mcicoach.com. The common shares of the NFI
Group are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol
NFI.
SOURCE New Flyer Industries Inc.