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Clay Eubanks (R) and Jeff Stewart
Clay Eubanks, vp of Takeuchi, is celebrating 4 many years with the corporate.
In September 1984, Eubanks was once a school pupil who started operating phase time in Takeuchi’s warehouse close to Atlanta, cleansing up the power and pulling portions from stock. Over the following 40 years, Eubanks took on increasingly accountability, honing his wisdom of the apparatus trade and emerging in the course of the ranks to his present place.
“I have had the chance to paintings with one of the maximum devoted and passionate folks within the trade proper right here at Takeuchi,” Eubanks mentioned. “It is been so particular to be informed and develop with any such nice crew that all the time places the client first — that is been Mr. Takeuchi’s philosophy from day one. I will be able to in truth say there is by no means been an afternoon once I puzzled if we had been doing the precise factor. It’s anticipated to all the time deal with the client how we might need to be handled.”
After his stint within the warehouse, Eubanks moved right into a full-time function as Takeuchi’s central area gross sales supervisor primarily based in Texas. He later moved again to Atlanta and ran Takeuchi’s retail retailer, then become the corporate’s Southern area supervisor, sooner or later selling to nationwide gross sales supervisor, common supervisor, and after all, president of Takeuchi-US.
His present place as vp of the board took him to Takeuchi’s world headquarters in Nagano, Japan the place he lately lives and works.
“I am proud to were a small a part of rising two new segments within the building trade — the compact excavator and the compact monitor loader — each merchandise that Takeuchi was once the primary to broaden,” Eubanks mentioned. “Within the early days, no person knew what those machines had been, and it was once an actual thrill touring the rustic and demonstrating what they might accomplish. What began out as laughter continuously became to amazement.”
Eubanks mentioned that, during the last 40 years, know-how has had the best affect at the compact building apparatus trade. When he started his profession with Takeuchi, there have been no cellphones or pill computer systems and even laptops. Machines had been very elementary and now not hooked up in any respect. Era has actually made its mark, and he does not see that pattern converting anytime quickly.
“I imagine the trade will proceed to adapt with extra system keep watch over and technology-driven options,” Eubanks mentioned. “What may not exchange is the wish to pay attention to shoppers and supply what they would like and want. It is as much as us to resolve how know-how can lend a hand us succeed in that upper degree of purchaser pleasure.”
As Eubanks displays on his lengthy profession trail with Takeuchi, he hopes that different younger folks will have the ability to discover a lifelong profession with the corporate as he did again in 1984.
“I need Takeuchi to proceed offering a place of business that is helping folks from all walks of lifestyles improve and lift their households whilst discovering their very own distinctive definition of private success,” he mentioned. “I imagine we now have created a tradition of that specialize in our shoppers and all the time being attentive to their wishes, and I’m hoping that we will proceed to have a distinct position in our collective center for our communities and our neighbors.
“I need Takeuchi to all the time be remembered — now not for what number of excavators or monitor loaders we now have bought, however how we now have made a distinction in folks’s lives.”
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Clay Eubanks
