Foley Equipment, Caterpillar dealer for Kansas and northwest Missouri, has opened a new facility in Colby, Kan., the company’s website reports. The 30,000-square-foot site more than doubles the size of Foley’s previous facility. The new climate-controlled facility offers an expanded parts warehouse and space to service 14 vehicles at one time.
“We are pleased with growth of our business in the Colby area, and are delighted to make this investment to continue to serve this community,” said CEO Ann Konecny.
“This investment in Colby gives us the capacity to serve more customers while providing a better customer experience,” added service manager Daman Glover. “We’re proud to be here and even more proud that we can continue to provide topnotch service for years to come.”
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.
