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As customer demographics — and how they do business — shift, and equipment technology evolves, the function and style of the traditional farm equipment dealership will likely change with them.
From less new equipment inventory to display in the showroom to charging stations and drone stations — the features of the farm equipment dealership could look different 10 years down the road.
After the expansion of the Preston, Iowa, facility in 2014, Kunau was convinced of all the positive things that such an investment brought to equation. He has pulled the trigger on Dewitt and has bids out to contractors this week.
The major lines' push for brand-pure dealers has been grappled with for decades. For some, the debate comes down to a matter of loyalty, efficiency and economics. For others, having hands tied on being able to sell what the customer wants hinders both market penetration and encourages customers to shop elsewhere.
Dealers who have updated and modernized their facilities — from the showroom to the wash bay and everywhere in between — have found new efficiencies throughout the company.
For Todd Kunau, owner of Kunau Implement, a Case IH dealer with 2 stores in Iowa, modernizing his facilities at the Preston location had everything to do with staying relevant to their customers and being a dealership that will still be here in the future.
Three dealers who've recently updated and modernized their facilities share insights on how they made the decision to renovate and their approach to implementing the updates.
Three dealers who've recently updated and modernized their facilities share insights on how they made the decision to renovate and their approach to implementing the updates.
Todd Kunau, owner of Kunau Implement, discusses how the centralized parts department in the newly renovated Preston, Iowa, location helps increase productivity and work flow by having all of the dealership’s parts under one roof.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Jason Webster, commercial agronomist with PTI Farm, breaks the results of PTI Farm’s 2024 HIgh Speed Planting Corn Study.
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