MHEDA Members See Sales Success
For the last two days, I’ve been immersed in the world of Sales Success Stories, our annual series of case studies of unique sales and product applications completed by material handling equipment distributors. Although the general consensus seems to be that not a lot of sales were made last year, I was definitely impressed by some of the deals MHEDA members were able to bring home.
There was the one that featured 27 modular containers in excess of $4 million. There was the $600,000 one that came together in a crazy 48-hour window. There’s the $500,000 pallet rack installation that required inventive hose storage. Those are only a few. I think readers are going to find this year’s edition of Sales Success Stories both informative and encouraging. The market is still there if we look hard enough.
Another thing that always comes to mind when working on these stories, and it’s amazing that it still happens seven years in, is how many other industries rely on the material handling industry to operate. Just in this year’s stories, the clients range from automotive parts to a bakery to a furniture store to an electronics importer to a cold storage operation to a steel mill. It really just runs the gamut.
So keep your eyes pealed for the Sales Success Stories, which will be published in the Fourth Quarter issue on October 15. And you never know, some may be appearing at www.themhedajournal.org before then!
Tags: MHEDA media, sales success
September 6th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Almost every thing that you see and touch was moved by a forklift. Hope you Holiday went well….jm