STATEMENT FROM CEO

Dear Customers,

I would like to confirm to you that Mr David Hearne has resigned from the company and will leave on 31 January 2017.

For those of you who have dealt with and know David since he began with the company in 1984, he has been an integral part of the company.

We wish David and his family success and happiness for the future and would like to give him a big personal thank you.

Kind regards,

John Jones

CEO, Hitachi Construction Machinery (UK) Ltd