Best Practices For Maintaining Profits and Satisfying Manufacturers
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Continue Reading »Happy Anniversary!
MHEDA Congratulates the following companies, each of whom is celebrating a milestone anniversary in 2012. (Distributor members are listed in black, while Supplier/Associates are listed in red. To submit a press release or anniversary photo, please email Steve Guglielmo at sguglielmo.tmj@gmail.com) 105th Anniversary — Est. 1907 Hamilton Caster & Mfg. Co., Hamilton, OH Modern …
Continue Reading »Planning Is Bringing The Future Into The Present
By Liz Richards, MHEDA Executive Vice President “Planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein Alan Lakein, an author on personal time management, is credited for that quote, and to me it embodies the essence of why strategic business planning is so critical. Your …
Continue Reading »Training and Engaging Technical Talent
Four distributors discuss how they onboard technical talent By Steve Guglielmo When an employee joins a company, it can take a while before he or she is completely comfortable. Not only do new employees have to learn their responsibilities in their new position, but they also must learn the nuts and bolts of the company. …
Continue Reading »The Off-Season
By Walter Bond How many people do you know who are glued to ESPN every day, watching the same highlights over and over again? The industry of professional sports is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been embraced worldwide. Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky and others have become household names, even to …
Continue Reading »Creating the Perfect Customer Service Experience
Distributors are at various stages of automating their service operations and using technology accelerators to enhance internal processes and automate communications to the customer and within their organizations. At the 2012 Annual Convention three MHEDA members, John Maybury, President of Maybury Material Handling, Jerry Weidmann, President of Wisconsin Lift Truck and Al Boston, CEO of …
Continue Reading »National Safety Council Honors Crown
New Bremen, OH — Eight of Crown Equipment Corporation’s facilities have received the Lift Truck Operator Award from the National Safety Council for outstanding safety practices. The award recognizes forklift operators for operator excellence in lift truck operations by operating lift truck fleets without recordable or lost time injuries. The seven manufacturing facilities and one …
Continue Reading »Smith Named Coordinator
Lexington, KY — Rob Smith was named product marketing coordinator for Clark Material Handing Company. Smith has 8 years of forklift sales and marketing experience, and has been recognized with various awards for sales excellence. He reports directly to Bo Maslanyk, vice president of sales & marketing.
Continue Reading »TIEM Noted for Environment
Irvine, CA — The Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM) plant in Columbus, IN, received the Indiana Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence for Five Years of Continuous Improvement. This is the third time TIEM has been given this award for implementing exemplary environmental projects with measurable results. “By seeking out and utilizing innovative environment practices, …
Continue Reading »Nissan and Hitachi to Integrate Forklift Businesses
Tokyo (Kyodo) — Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. and Nissan Motor Co. will integrate their forklift businesses to enhance their competitiveness amid expectations for strong demand growth in emerging economies. The two companies’ operations run by subsidiaries will be integrated and operated by Spring 2012 under a new company to be set up by the Innovation …
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