Hyster announces the recipients of its 2025 Dealer of Distinction award, which recognizes individual dealers for their performance and outstanding support for customers at all levels of the organization – from sales and service to finance, management and more. The award honors Hyster dealers that exhibit focused leadership and a commitment to materials handling excellence and customer satisfaction.
“Each year, our Dealers of Distinction set the standard for performance excellence and continuous improvement,” said Bob Sattler, vice president, dealer business development, Hyster. “This elite group of dealers uses their deep expertise in materials handling to help customers enhance productivity and unlock smarter, more efficient operations. They consistently demonstrate their capabilities as a trusted partner, whether the need is immediate rental support, regular operator training or turnkey motive power and fleet management solutions.”
To receive the award, dealers must meet rigorous business practice standards and performance criteria that are reassessed and modified annually to align with evolving customer expectations and heightened industry demands.
2025 Dealer of Distinction recipients
- Alta Material Handling – Eastern Michigan, New England North
· Arnold Machinery Company - Colorado
· Berry Material Handling
· Briggs Equipment – Gulf Coast
· Burns Industrial Equipment – Cleveland, Pittsburgh
· Deep South Equipment – Legacy, Oklahoma
· Eastern Lift Truck Company, Inc. – Baltimore-Washington, D.C.-Delaware, Philadelphia-South New Jersey
· Fairchild Equipment – Wisconsin South
· Gregory Poole – Carolinas, Virginia
· LiftOne – North, South, West
· MH Equipment – Great Plains, Illinois, Indianapolis, Iowa, Kentuckiana
· Papé Material Handling – Central Washington, Eugene, Portland, Seattle, Spokane
To locate a Hyster dealer and explore local solutions and support, visit https://www.hyster.com/en-us/north-america/dealer-finder/.
About the Author
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.