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t’s no secret that even before the pandemic, green industry companies struggled with finding enough labor to service customers and expand their businesses. That’s why the topic of the webinar, How to Service More Customers With Fewer Employees, presented by FieldRoutes and hosted by Green Industry Pros magazine, was spot on. Throughout the hourlong webinar, Mark Stewart, key account manager at FieldRoutes, Phil Fogarty, master franchiser for Weed Man Lawn Care, and Pierre Bridger, director of operations at Vibrant Outdoors, touched on overall labor challenges, creating operational efficiency, keeping employees engaged, incorporating technology to make employees’ lives easier and investing time and money to boost the bottom line. A few highlights of Scan Here the webinar included To continue reading Stewart discussing how the rest of this story companies implementing
technology and software into their everyday operations are the ones with happier and more engaged employees; Fogarty explaining how new innovations such as robotic mowers and battery-powered equipment may help ease the labor strain and Bridger describing his company’s top recruiting methods and how they’ve panned out for the company.
TAKEUCHI TO OPEN ITS FIRST NORTH
AMERICAN MANUFACTURING FACILITY
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akeuchi-U.S. is preparing to open its first North American manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The new Takeuchi facility will produce compact track loaders and is expected to employ around 100 people when fully operational. Located off the Moore-Duncan Highway in Moore, S.C., Takeuchi’s new 156,000-square-foot production facility and stand-alone office building are close to major thoroughfares Interstate 26 and Interstate 85. The facility will allow Takeuchi to reduce compact track loader production lead time for its North American customers and better meet market needs. “Takeuchi has experienced its greatest demand for compact
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track loaders right here in North America,” said Jeff Stewart, president of Takeuchi-U.S. “That’s why manufacturing these highly sought-after machines right here in the U.S. simply makes sense. It will be faster and more efficient than shipping them from one of our overseas manufacturing facilities, and we can then pass on those efficiencies to our dealers and their customers.” Compact track loader production at the facility is expected to begin at the new facility by the end of 2022, and Takeuchi is currently hiring for all positions. Scan Here To continue reading the rest of this story
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