18 DC VELOCITY JULY 2015 www.dcvelocity.com
newsworthy
Lift-truck dealers across six Southeastern states
will face less business competition under a plan by
Hyster and Yale parent company NACCO Materials
Handling Group Inc. (NMHG) to authorize more
dealers to sell both its brands under a single roof.
Cleveland-based NMHG announced in mid-June
that it would expand its dual-brand dealer network
to include Gregory Poole Equipment Co., headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., and LiftOne LLC, based
in Charlotte, N.C.
The move to re-engineer its sales territories is
intended to eliminate the conflicts that now exist
between competitive suppliers in those regions,
NMHG said.
The complex restructuring will begin when
Gregory Poole acquires the operations of Yale
dealer Dougherty Equipment Co. Inc., based in
Greensboro, N.C., including sales territories in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
and Georgia.
Gregory Poole will then sell some of those assets
to LiftOne. Gregory Poole will also acquire additional operations from both VBS Inc. Materials
Handling Equipment—a Hyster dealer with six
branch locations across Virginia, West Virginia,
and North Carolina—and Briggs Equipment Inc.,
a dual-brand Hyster and Yale dealer.
Together, those moves will make Gregory Poole
the Yale dealer in parts of North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia and the Hyster dealer in
most of Virginia and parts of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and West Virginia.
The changes will also allow LiftOne to represent
Yale in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia. LiftOne is currently the Hyster dealer in parts of North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, and Kentucky, and the
dealer for both Hyster and Yale brands in parts of
Tennessee.
NMHG considers the market currently serviced
by Dougherty Equipment, VBS, and Briggs, which
represents over 10,000 lift trucks per year across
five states and includes four major seaports, to be
critically important, said Bob Sattler, the company’s
vice president for dealer business development, in a
statement.
—B.A.
Hyster and Yale parent
consolidates competing
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