SIMON LIFT SYSTEMS SOARING HIGH FOR 20 YEARS S BY NIKKI GOUTHRO
imon Billo caught the entrepreneurial bug early. He’d learned a thing or two about the value of hard work and responsibility as a young man working The Albertan paper route. In the humble newspaper-delivery business, Billo garnered many fundamental principles of success – take care of your customers, assume responsibility for your actions and fix any problems that come up. He and his brother woke up at the crack of dawn to deliver the day’s news to their customers – rain or shine.
Twenty years ago, the success story of Simon Lift Systems, a highreach rental equipment company began when a wise, business-savvy friend planted the seed in Billo’s head. ABOVE: GENIE Z-135 (135 FT SELF PROPELLED ROUGH TERRAIN BOOM). LEFT TO RIGHT TOP OF BOOM: MATTHEW BILLO, JOSHUA BILLO. LEFT TO RIGHT (LOWER) CHERRYL, PITOGO, DARREN GROHN, DAVID WERKLUND, SIMON BILLO, JENNAFER BILLO AND JULIE BILLO.
“I was working for a local meat-packing company in a sales and marketing role and I really didn’t care for it,” says Billo. “My friend, Dave Werklund, had his own business and so I proposed that he let me work for him, but there were no positions for me at that time.”
SIMON LIFT SYSTEMS INC. || 20 YEARS
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