Ohio Cat Cuts Ribbon to Celebrate Headquarters Expansion

June 8, 2016

Ohio Cat owner Ken Taylor center prepares to cut ribbon From left Dave Blocksom CFO Sonja Metzler VP Human Resources Kelly Love Martha Taylor Ken Taylor President Gillian Taylor Greg DeAnna VP Power Systems Division Paul Liesem VP Major Accounts Eric Emch VP Equipment Division — Ohio Cat owner Ken Taylor, center, prepares to cut ribbon. From left: Dave Blocksom, CFO; Sonja Metzler, VP Human Resources; Kelly Love; Martha Taylor; Ken Taylor, President; Gillian Taylor, Greg DeAnna, VP Power Systems Division; Paul Liesem, VP Major Accounts; Eric Emch, VP Equipment Division.

Ohio Cat celebrated the opening of its Broadview Heights, Ohio, headquarters expansion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week with owner Ken Taylor and representatives of several public officials in attendance. As part of the company’s $75 million facilities expansion and improvement program, the headquarters expansion project doubled the size of Ohio Cat’s corporate office, training and meeting facilities.

At the ceremony, Broadview Heights Mayor Sam Alai; Ohio State Representative Marlene Anielski, and Nicole Kostura, aid to Governor John Kasich, thanked Ohio Cat for its continued investment in the city of Broadview Heights, near Cleveland, and Northeast Ohio.

The $24 million project included multiple additions that unified the exterior appearance while integrating the various internal business functions of the company. The structure incorporated numerous sustainable design and construction features that greatly improve energy performance of the building. With administrative staff, as well as product support, equipment sales and equipment rental staff, Ohio Cat’s Broadview Heights headquarters employs 185 people.

Ohio Cat, No. 29 on the RER 100, is the authorized Caterpillar dealer for Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana.

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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.