Kirby-Smith Machinery celebrated the grand opening of its new Kansas City location with an open house, giving the Oklahoma City-based dealership 10 branches. The event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony and promotion of the Manitowoc, Grove and National Crane brands.
Rickey Bailey, vice president of Kirby-Smith’s crane division said that a large part of the company’s 30-year success and consistent expansion has been partnering with top-tier manufacturers such as Manitowoc.
“Kirby-Smith Machinery prides itself on offering quality heavy equipment that has been chosen for its dependability, and all Manitowoc cranes certainly fit that description,” he said. “We’re proud to open our new Kansas City location to customers, and we were equally proud to have Manitowoc Cranes onboard as part of the celebration.”
Kirby-Smith also has a formidable rental program, and is ranked No. 40 on the RER 100.
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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.