Gregory Poole Equipment Company has been named Equipment World’s 2023 Big Iron Dealer of the Year.
The Caterpillar dealership was shaped in 1951 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has grown to 26 areas in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Along with development tools, the 72-year-old firm has over the years added an industrial division for materials dealing with tools, an influence techniques division, a compressed air techniques division, SITECH machine expertise and a mess of different tools classes.
Formed by James Gregory Poole Sr., the dealership is now in its fourth technology of household management. Along with Cat, it presents tools from the next producers: Hyster, Yale, Weiler, Astec Industries, Genie, JLG, Multiquip, Toro, BOMAG, Wacker Neuson, Allmand, Blue Bird, Micro Bird, Kobelco, Atlas Copco, Sullivan Palatek, Sullair, Boge, Kaishan, ASCO, Generac, Road Widener and Trimble.
Equipment World will profile Gregory Poole in a coming article, detailing its dedication to customer support, worker improvement and steady enchancment.
Now in its sixth 12 months, the Big Iron Dealer of the Year award is designed to honor sellers for excellence in assembly buyer wants, using expertise and addressing the elements and repair necessities of in the present day’s contractors.
Gregory Poole is one among three sellers named finalists within the 2023 Big Iron Dealer of the Year Award. The following two finalists may also be featured in profiles all through the approaching months:
Feenaughty Machinery
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Feenaughty Machinery Co. has been supporting the development and forestry industries within the Pacific Northwest for over 120 years. Family-operated since 1901, the corporate began with gross sales of road cleaners when founder and Irish immigrant William Orlando Feenaughty moved from New York to Portland.
The firm has advanced to incorporate numerous sorts of timber and development tools. Manufacturers it represents embrace Develon (previously Doosan Infracore), Kobelco and Takeuchi.
Maintaining an idea of cautious development in recent years, the corporate has further areas in Eugene, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
Newman Tractor
Founded in 1976, Newman Tractor served as a rental home and used tools retailer for many its first 30 years in business. The firm began promoting new tools within the mid-2000s, taking up Morooka tracked carriers and finally Sany.
Newman has doubled in dimension and areas within the final 5 years, and the second technology, siblings Justin Newman and Meredith Newman, is getting ready to take the helm. The firm is headquartered in Verona, Kentucky, and has 5 areas in Kentucky, Florida and Ohio.
Past Dealer of the Year winners have included Alta Equipment (2018), Carolina Cat (2019), Front Range Kubota (2020), West Side Tractor Sales (2021), and ASCO (2022).