Our History

It all began more than 60 years ago

Tracpieces Belgium was founded in 1958 by Mr Paul Fraikin and quickly established itself as a supplier of quality replacement parts. Bence Equipment and Parts Company Limited, trading as Bepco, was founded by John Bence in Camberley Surrey on 20 May 1974. John Bence had a 50% shareholding as did his partner Gordon Jones, a South African whose father was the main Massey Ferguson distributor in South Africa.

John came from a parts background and his family had a manufacturing facility producing engine parts such as cylinder heads and blocks for Caterpillar.
After working for a London export house specialising in Perkins parts amongst other things, he decided to set up Bepco as an export house and purchased the agricultural stock of an industrial equipment spare parts company.

At this point in time Bepco began to sell genuine Perkins parts to agricultural customers in export markets and the engine parts reputation developed. In 1978 an additional board member, Jonathan Lea, joined Bepco as Purchasing Director, and the business grew quickly with major customers added in new international markets including Australia, USA, South Africa, East Africa, North Africa and the Middle East as well as Europe in Austria and several countries in Scandinavia. 

However, at this time there was still no business in UK, so in 1979 the company Mifflin Trading Limited based in Kington, Herefordshire was established. Mifflin took market share fast and was subsequently renamed Bepco (UK) Limited in April 1991.

During the 1970s additional companies were added including Bepco Mexicana S.A de CV in Mexico and Bepco SA in South Africa. As the Bepco company continued to grow it moved head office to new fully owned premises in Farnborough, UK in 1985.

Sales grew rapidly and the number of sales staff increased to meet demand and manage the good but more challenging markets. In March 1985 a sister company called Jenco International Limited was formed to complement the Bepco product range and meet customer requests for proprietary brands like Delphi, Lucas, Borg Warner as well as OEM parts.

And so to the final chapter


In April 2012, a new dawn arrived in the shape of TVH, a major dynamic and global force, with long term plans for stability and growth.

Following the acquisition by TVH, Bepco has gone from strength to strength and is growing faster than ever, backed by the investment, dynamism and agility of the global market leader for industrial and agricultural parts. 

Today, Bepco has become one of the largest worldwide agricultural parts wholesalers in the market with a “global reach, local service” strategy and ambitious growth plans for the future.