Aerial Rental Specialist Illini Hi-Reach Celebrates 25-Year Anniversary
Illini Hi-Reach is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2018, president and CEO Larry Workman said. Founded in 1993, Illini has grown to be one of the most respected independent equipment rental companies in North America with five full service locations in the greater Chicagoland area and Northwest Indiana, and has been an RER 100 rental company for the past 10 years.
Illini’s ever expanding rental fleet features JLG aerial work platforms and telehandlers and has been a key supplier of rental equipment to many major construction and industrial projects in southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and north-central Indiana over the past 25 years. In addition to providing rental, Illini has experienced explosive growth in its parts and service department, serving customers locally and internationally.
In 2018, Illini became an employee owned company (ESOP), further enhancing its continued long-term growth and customer support throughout its marketplace.
“We are so very pleased to have achieved this milestone of consistent growth and success at Illini,” said Workman. “Our employees’ hard work and dedication over the past 25 years has resulted in Illini being a highly respected and vibrant company that is 100 percent committed to our customers’ maximum satisfaction and productivity.
For more information, visit www.hi-reach.com.
Illini Hi-Reach is No. 95 on the RER 100. The company is headquartered in Crown Point, Ind.
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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.