Scott MacCallum traveled to the Netherlands to visit two companies whose product Campey Turf Care has brought into its portfolio.
On the face of it similarities may be difficult to detect but there is actually a close link between the late EnglandFootball Manager, Bobby Robson, and Richard Campey, founder and owner of Campey Turf Care Systems.
In the late ’70s Bobby Robsontransformed his Ipswich Town team from one of England’s better teams into one of the top teams in Europe, culminating in the winning of the UEFA Cup in 1981. He did so thanks to the enlightened signing of twoDutchmen, Arnold Muhren and FransThyssen, whose continental talents –rare in English football in those days– gave Ipswich that little something extra.
Richard Campey also made two enlightened Dutch signings when he added Imants and Vredo to his stable of fine turf and agricultural machinery manufacturers, whose product he sells throughout the world.
The top-of-the-range equipment has ensured that many sports clubs, and a growing number of contractors and farms, now have machinery which has been supplied to them by CampeyTurf Care Systems. Imants and Vredo are similarly sized companies, each with just under50 employees, who excel in producing well-engineered solutions to specific turf related issues…