Fewer sites, better returns: Inside HSS’s strategic reset under Overman

Lewis Tyler Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

14 July 2025

HSS CEO Jon Overman discusses how its depot strategy is helping it to increase utilisation and better serve customers.

Jon Overman of HSS speaking at the briggs & Stratton Rental eSummit. Jon Overman, CEO of HSS’s traditional hire business, at the Rental eSummit. (Photo: Briggs & Stratton)

Those in the UK will be familiar with HSS Hire, a name engrained in the fabric of the hire sector.

Founded in 1957 by Bert Taylor as the Hire Services Company, the business has been on something of a reimagining of its tool and equipment hire roots in recent years.…

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