Ralph Martindale & Company Ltd is a private company with subsidiaries engaged in the manufacture of agricultural hand tools, lawn care equipment, gardening tools, hot rolled steel sections and construction products. The Group's manufacturing activities are vertically integrated. Hot rolled, high quality steel is produced by its rolling mill in England and the steel sections are then converted to finished products at its operations in England, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Thailand. Core products are matchets, hoes, forks, sickles, lawnmower blades and scaffold fittings. The company's 'Crocodile' brand is a market leader world-wide.