US manufacturer Link-Belt has appointed new distributors to replace Con-Equip and Owsley, sister companies that are being liquidated. The principals of the new distributors are familiar names to Link-Belt customers in the region.
North and South Carolina will be covered by Pinnacle Cranes, a division of Carolina Tractor & Equipment, a long established Caterpillar excavator dealer. General manager of Pinnacle is Reed Owsley, whose family business – Owsley – previously covered the Carolinas and Georgia for Link-Belt. The Owsley company was sold by the family to Consolidated Equipment Companies (CEC) in 2000. CEC filed for bankruptcy in June 2001 and is now being liquidated.
Four Seasons Equipment Inc is covering the Houston, Austin and San Antonio markets in central Texas. Dealer principal of Four Seasons is George Nevins, who until May 2000 was in charge of CEC. Four Seasons’ sales manager is his son Mitch Nevins, who was previously president of Con-Equip, the CEC division that distributed Link-Belt equipment in southeast Texas (including Houston) and southern Louisiana.
Atlantic & Southern, a new affiliate of Kelly Tractor, has been signed up as distributor for the state of Georgia.
Last October Link-Belt extended the territory covered by Scott Truck & Tractor to cover the whole of Louisiana.
Link-Belt has yet to make new arrangements in the Dallas region of Texas to replace Kirkpatrick & O’Donnell which has gone out of business.
