Cat Rental Stores Names Genie 2017 Vendor of the Year
Cat Rental Stores named Genie the Cat Rental Store 2017 Vendor of the Year at Caterpillar’s 2018 Rental Summit Allied Vendor Fair and Reception. The criteria for the award are quality, product support and policy, ease of doing business and overall vendor satisfaction.
This is the first year the Cat Rental Store Vendor of the Year award has been presented.
“I am very pleased to bestow Genie with the honor of our 2017 Vendor of the Year,” said Erica Baird, global allied product manager, global rental & used equipment services, Caterpillar. “The Cat Rental Stores have distinguished Genie as an exceptional vendor, committed to providing our dealers with quality products and support, to ensure our customers’ success from the start to the finish of any project or job. We look forward to growing our long and successful relationship with Genie.”
Baird said at the end of last year Caterpillar worked with its dealers to determine the key attributes required to be recognized as the Cat Rental Store Vendor of the Year. Baird said Genie was recognized for its ongoing commitment to provide the highest overall value to Cat Rental Store dealers and customers.
“It is a privilege to receive this prestigious recognition from Caterpillar,” said Paul Smith, Genie national accounts manager, Terex AWP. “At Genie, we are committed to the success of our customers’ businesses, from delivering high quality aerial lift equipment to our responsive support after the sale. We take great pride in providing Cat Rental Stores the products, services and programs they need to meet the growing and changing needs of their customers.”
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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.