Manitowoc Awards Lanco Group as Top Dealer of the Year
For the fifth year in a row, Manitowoc has recognized Lanco Group of Companies as its North America Top Dealer of the Year. The Homewood, Ill.-based group was the largest single purchaser of Manitowoc cranes across all of its brands by dollar amount in 2019.
“We are very proud to celebrate this award with our great partner Lanco for five years running,” said David Hull, general manager North America for Manitowoc. “Lanco is a world class group of companies, committed to providing high-standard services and meeting the customers’ needs. We’re very pleased to do business with a group that invests in having an excellent team and equipment, because that makes the difference to our customers.”
Founded in 1954 in Illinois by John (Jack) Lanigan, and led today by Mike Lanigan, Lanco is a multinational corporation that provides innovative solutions and services to various industries, such as manufacturing, sports and entertainment. Its crane business unit is comprised of the dealers Walter Payton Power Equipment, Western Pacific Crane & Equipment and Mi-Jack Canada, which cover an extended area in the United States and Canada.
Pictured above, from left: Jack Wepfer, VP finance, Lanco; Brian Lynch, general manager, Walter Payton Power Equipment and Mi-Jack Canada; Patrick Lanigan, director, Lanco; David Hull, general manager – North America.
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Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.