Holt Wind Resources, an affiliate of San Antonio-based Holt Cat, last week acquired TGM Wind Services, which does business as Kardie Equipment, TGM founder Kevin Darby said.
Holt Wind Resources, an affiliate of San Antonio-based Holt Cat, last week acquired TGM Wind Services, which does business as Kardie Equipment, TGM founder Kevin Darby announced. The leadership, management, and staff of TGM Wind Services will remain with the company in their same capacities, Darby said.
Darby added that there will be no changes to customers’ points of contact with the company, nor will the acquisition affect any ongoing business with TGM Wind Services or Kardie Equipment.
Kardie Equipment has a large fleet of mobile elevating work platforms higher than 150 feet, especially truck-mounted Bronto Skylift units.
Based in Lakeway, Texas, Kardie Equipment is especially strong in MEWPs that repair wind turbines. Kardie is No. 94 on the RER 100.
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.
