If a pallet-load of stuff must be moved around a warehouse, factory or retailer somewhere in the world, chances are pretty good that the machine doing the heavy lifting was made by Crown Equipment Corp.
Brothers Carl and Allen Dicke founded Crown in New Bremen, OH, in 1945. Seventy-six years later, Crown is one of the largest producers of lift trucks and material handling equipment in the world, with more than $3 billion in annual sales.