The heavy equipment industry is not immune to disruptive innovation. However, equipment manufacturers and distributors can recognize and leverage disruptive innovations and create new value to stay in business and prosper. Disruption expert Luke Williams will tell them how as keynote speaker of the AEM/AED Forum: Drivers of the Industry, Sept. 12-14 in Chicago. Williams, founder of W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs and…
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AED’s McGuire Blasts Washington Infrastructure Failure
Brian P. McGuire, president and CEO of Associated Equipment Distributors (AED), issued the following in response to the U.S. Census Bureau’s recent Value of Construction Put in Place (VIP) survey, which shows public construction spending in the country hit a 24-year low in the second quarter of this year. “With trillions of dollars of infrastructure needs in the United States,…
Read MoreAED Names Southeast Regional Director
Michael Vasquez, vice president at Atlas Copco Construction Equipment distributor Meco Miami Inc., has been appointed Southeast regional director to the Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) board of directors. During his three-year term as Southeast regional director, Vazquez hopes to appeal to the small dealer market, while maintaining Meco Miami’s active competition with other distributors. Vazquez said AED has given Meco…
Read MoreAED: Open Up Cuba
June 19, 2017 – There is equipment to be sold. Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) President and CEO Brian P. McGuire advised that any U.S. Cuba policy should continue engagement with the island, as this is vital to the United States’ economic and national-security interests. In 2016, the association led two business delegations to Cuba, allowing dozens of equipment industry leaders…
Read MoreAED Praises Reauthorization of Technical Education Act
Brian P. McGuire, president and CEO of Associated Equipment Distributors (AED), issued the following statement in conjunction with the introduction of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career & Technical Education Act. “AED congratulates the House Education & Workforce Committee’s leadership for introducing the Strengthening Career and Technical…
Read MoreBrennan to Congress: Mining Critical for Equipment Industry Growth
A strong mining industry is integral to economic growth, job creation and the United States’ ability to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure, an Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) executive committee member told the House Energy & Mineral Resources Subcommittee.
Read MoreMaking History
The do-nothing congress has finally done something. And it is actually historic.
Read MoreDepreciation, Expensing Provisions in Tax Package Benefit Producers
A tax extenders package accompanying the $1.15 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 Congress passed ahead of the holiday break has two major provisions benefitting aggregates producers and their contractor customers: an extension of the 50 percent bonus depreciation for capital equipment purchased in 2015–2017, phasing to 40 percent and 30 percent in 2018 and 2019; and, permanent extension of…
Read MoreAED: FAST Act Will Generate Major Market Activity
A new analysis by the Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) shows the significant economic impact the recently enacted Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act or “FAST Act” will have on construction equipment distributors and manufacturers.
Read MoreAED Chairman Takes Congress to Task
On June 3, Don Shilling, president of General Equipment and Supplies of Fargo, N.D., and the Associated Equipment Distributors’ (AED) 2015 national chairman, called for bold, decisive action to restore certainty to the federal highway program.
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