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We are proud to be able announce that MowDIRECT have just been appointed Official Online Partners of Mountfield Lawnmowers. Mountfield are Britain’s favourite petrol lawnmowers and in conjunction with the manufacturer we shall in the 2008 season be delivering all petrol lawnmowers from this leading brand fully assembled, tested and ready to use. Read more »

At MowDIRECT we greatly value your feedback and are here to help you gain a better understanding of lawnmowers and garden machinery in general. It’s important to us that you understand the choices available to you and that you invest in the right machine to get the job done properly and to your satisfaction. Although we hope that the information provided on our website will help you to do this, we do very much welcome any questions or comments you may have either on posts from this Blog or on our website itself and the products we supply. If you want to provide feedback on any of the specific entries on this Blog you will find a comment box at the base of each individual post entry. Please also feel free to use this to raise issues you feel may have been left unanswered by a Blog entry or something you would like to have been covered. We won’t necessarily be able to respond to each individual entry but we will read each one and use the accumulated feedback we receive to help make the Blog more responsive to the issues which interest you most. If you do have a specific product related question for which you require a direct answer please email our Sales Team: sales@mowdirect.co.uk.

As I’ve already mentioned elsewhere on this Blog, when we began MowDIRECT almost ten years ago you could count the number of websites selling lawnmowers on one hand. How many are there now? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty!? I’m not sure and I haven’t counted recently but there are a lot. One thing we have learnt over that period is that very few have stayed the course. There appears to be a significant element that come and go, making an appearance for a few years before withering away. Actually I’m not surprised by that. Running an online business well is like running any business Read more »

I’m glad you clicked on this link. It does show you’re interested in knowing a bit about us and finding out who we are. I’ll start with a hunch and please don’t be offended if this doesn’t apply to you but I think in many cases it might: my guess would be that if you’ve not heard of MowDIRECT before this is probably the first time you have purchased a new lawnmower or item of garden machinery online? Yes? No? Why do I say this? Read more »

Nineteen Ninety-Nine, the year we began MowDIRECT, now seems like a world away and in many ways it was. Mr Bill Clinton was in the White House, New Labour led by a fresh faced Tony Blair had been in power just two years, the teenage Britney Spears released her debut album and Arsenal and Manchester United were heading up the football league in England….err, ok, so not everything was so different. But the world of the web has since been transformed. In those early days of shopping online Google was barely a year old and our customers were more likely to reach us through Read more »