Leppo Rents-Bobcat Draws 250 to Youngstown Open House

Leppo Rents-Bobcat of Youngstown held an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new facility March 24 with about 250 guests in attendance.

Michael Roth

March 31, 2017

Leppo Rents-Bobcat of Youngstown held an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new facility March 24 with about 250 guests in attendance. The new location is on five acres of land and is 15,750 square feet, about 3,000 more square feet than its previous location. Leppo Rents-Bobcat of Youngstown needed a larger facility with its rental business almost doubling over the past three years, the company said.

Leppo Rents-Bobcat of Youngstown has added two positions for the new location.

During the open house, Leppo Rents had four raffles going on, which more than 200 customers participated in. The main raffle was a new Bobcat attachment, sponsored by Bobcat. Two other raffles were sponsored by Stihl – a MS170 chainsaw and BG50 hand blower. Bobcat also gave away a remote-control Bobcat toy.

The Leppo team also put on two “Bob-care” clinics, offering instruction in compact equipment maintenance.

Leppo Inc. is a family-owned business since 1945 and operates six stores in Northeast Ohio and is the premier Northeast Ohio dealer of Bobcat, JLG and Multiquip, the company said. Based in Talmadge, Ohio, Leppo Group is No. 77 on the RER 100.

About the Author

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.