Yale recognizes 23 with Dealer of Excellence Award

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Yale Materials Handling Corporation is honored to announce its 2012 Dealer of Excellence award recipients. The 23 top performing Yale® dealers will receive this award based on their focused leadership skills, which has helped their companies achieve an industry-leading level of performance in all areas of the materials handling business. “The Yale Dealer of Excellence Program raises performance standards to keep pace with our growing customer expectations and heightened industry demands,” states Don Chance, President, NMHG Sales. “The recipients of this award have clearly demonstrated their commitment to achieve this objective by consistently exceeding customer expectations, making them some of our most valuable assets and an integral part of Yale’s success.”

2012 Dealer of Excellence Award Recipients:

Dealer/Dealer Principal
Alta Equipment Co./Steve Greenawalt
Berry Material Handling/Joe Wilson
Black Equipment Company, Inc./Scott Bonnell
Burns Industrial Equipment, Inc./Christopher Burns
Dougherty Equipment Co. (North Carolina Div.)/Michael Dougherty
Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc./Mike Pruitt
Fairchild Equipment Inc. (Wisconsin Div.)/Gary Fairchild
Fitzgerald Equipment Co. Inc./Kevin Fitzgerald
Harding Forklift Services Ltd./Pete Harding
Hilo Materials Handling Group/Steve LoPiccolo
Insley-McEntee Equipment Company, Inc./Philip Robinson
Key Material Handling Equipment Co., Inc./Robert Kehley
MacKinnon Equipment and Services/Sandy MacKinnon
Medley Material Handling Company/Mark Medley
Northland Industrial Truck Co., Inc. (Massachusetts Div.)/Steve O’Leary
Ohio Materials Handling, Inc./James Orenga
Pacific Material Handling Solutions, Inc. (Bay Area Div.)/Ralph Logan
Riekes Equipment Company/Duncan Murphy
Tynan Equipment Co./John Tynan
Yale Carolinas, Inc. (West Division)/C. Gray Wheeler
Yale/Chase Equipment & Services, Inc. (North Div.)/Roger Ketelsleger
Yale Kentuckiana, Inc./Barry Paul
Yes Equipment & Services, Inc./Clifford Anglewicz

To receive this prestigious award, dealers must meet defined business practices and performance standards including elevated goals in customer satisfaction, dealer performance, general management, truck sales, short-term rental, training, aftermarket sales and parts and service operations. Each year, the program requirements are assessed and modified to ensure the performance standards keep pace with increasing customer expectations and heightened industry demands. Yale will honor these top-performing dealers at an awards celebration in Sea Island, Ga., on April 21. This will be the 19th year that the Yale Dealer of Excellence Program has recognized its highest achievers. 

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