Celebrating 40 years of excavator production

JCB Finance is celebrating its 40th Anniversary, tracing its origins back to the formation of JCB Credit in February 1970. In the first year of operation it achieved a turnover of £900,000 (€1 million) reaching the milestone of over £500 million (€563 million) in lending balances in December 2007. August 1998 saw a name change to JCB Finance Limited, the result of a desire from JCB to replicate the success of its UK finance arm under one common finance brand across the world.
May 14, 2012 Read time: 1 min
255 JCB Finance is celebrating its 40th Anniversary, tracing its origins back to the formation of JCB Credit in February 1970. In the first year of operation it achieved a turnover of £900,000 (€1 million) reaching the milestone of over £500 million (€563 million) in lending balances in December 2007. August 1998 saw a name change to JCB Finance Limited, the result of a desire from JCB to replicate the success of its UK finance arm under one common finance brand across the world.
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