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November 21 , 2006
More than 50 community leaders and customers attended the Equipment Depot grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at its newest branch location serving the Brazosport area. The facility is located at 113 West Murray in Angleton. Officials from the Brazosport Chamber of Commerce and the Angleton Chamber of Commerce attended the joint ribbon cutting. The festivities lasted from Noon until 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 25. Fajitas were served all afternoon.
The former Southline Equipment Company, acquired by Equipment Depot in December 2005, has been serving the Brazosport area since 1990. Southline Equipment Company, a privately held forklift dealership, was acquired from the Biehl Company in Houston.
Individuals from the Brazosport area were invited to tour the facility and see what is new in equipment from Clark, Linde, Princeton, Doosan, Comblift, JLG and SkyTrak. Door prizes were awarded every hour and discounts on equipment were offered.
Equipment Depot, the Texas Equipment Superstore, offers a complete line of lift trucks, material handling equipment, industrial trucks, utility trucks, construction equipment, scissor lifts, telescopic booms, articulated knuckle booms, commercial mowers, tractors, agricultural equipment, haying equipment and attachments. Each dealership supports all its equipment with parts, service, rental, financing and training.
Equipment Depot is a Waco-based regional equipment company founded as Central Texas Clarklift in 1975. It changed its name to Equipment Depot in 1995 to better reflect the company’s brand expansion and new product lines. Today, the company represents more than 30 industry leading manufacturers and its unique race truck service vans are a familiar sight throughout Texas.
Equipment Depot’s combined operations now has more than 560 employees, including 270 service technicians, operating from twelve full-service facilities and thirteen limited-service depots strategically located along the Interstate 35 corridor, the Rio Grande valley and the Gulf Coast. With sales and service coverage in 156 counties and annual revenues exceeding $150 million, privately-held Equipment Depot becomes one of the largest materials handling companies in Texas.
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