Surge in Enquiries and Business Convinces Management Team of Asia Specific Business

15:15 GMT, September 2, 2010 Cambridge, UK and Australia | Marshall Land Systems Ltd, the land systems arm of Marshall of Cambridge Holdings, is establishing Marshall Land Systems Pty Limited in Australia to service the growing demand for the company’s solutions in the Asia Pacific region. The move follows a positive assessment of the levels of business that it expects to generate and to support existing business in Australia and the wider region.

At the start the company will support existing projects and then move on to support future projects. The company will have manufacturing and customer capability support functions including design and supply network management capability.

The new company will initially feed off the world class capability of its UK based activities, but there will be a planned migration of skills to the new company to increase the overall capacity of Marshall Land Systems. The increased capacity will allow Marshall Land Systems to better service the world markets it is operating in. In particular the new company will look at the Protected Workspace and Protected Logistics military markets.

Peter Callaghan the Chief Executive of Marshall Land Systems said. “We are setting up Marshall Land Systems Pty Limited because we can see a profitable and sustainable future for it in the short and long term. The way that Marshall Land Systems, and indeed the whole of the Marshall Group, operates is to identify specific areas of operation and commit to them for the long term as illustrated by Marshall Aerospace’s support to the RAAF and it’s C-130 programme. We see this as evidence of our support to our Defence and Prime Contractor Customers throughout Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region and to the concept of Australian Industry Capability.”

“We have already identified a number of projects we are working on as well as partners, such as Tectonica Australia Pty Ltd that we are working with. We are working with State governments to identify the best site for the company to operate its manufacturing and maintenance facility. The initial operating office is expected to be close to DMO (Defence Material Organisation), possibly co-located with Tectonica” he added.