Equipment Depot Acquires New England Industrial Truck, a Forklift Dealership
Equipment Depot, a national material handling and equipment rental dealer group, has acquired New England Industrial Truck. Over the coming months, NEIT will merge with Equipment Depot, leveraging the strengths of both businesses to deliver value to their shared customers.
The integration of NEIT adds three new locations to Equipment Depot in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine, serving a six-state area in the northeastern United States. With the combined capabilities of NEIT and Equipment Depot, customers will benefit from an expanded network of locations across the country providing full-service material handling solutions that help improve productivity and maximize uptime.
New England Industrial Truck will officially change its name to Equipment Depot before October 1. According to Equipment Depot’s president and CEO David Turner, “Bringing together the talent and experience within our organizations and continuing to provide industry-leading products and services means even greater resources toward helping our customers achieve their business goals.”
Equipment Depot offers an extensive line-up of equipment and serves as a single source for forklift and aerial lift sales, service, rentals, parts, and integrated warehouse solutions.
The company has more than 40 locations. It provides new and used forklifts, aerial lifts, service, parts, equipment rentals, automation and strategic warehouse solutions for customers in a wide array of industries. NEIT is a full-service forklift UniCarriers dealership, in business since 1952.
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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.