Midwest Equipment & Supply Co., Inc
Midwest Equipment & Supply Co., Inc. is a premier wholesale supplier to outdoor power equipment retailers in the states of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, & Missouri. We distribute premium outdoor power equipment for commercial lawn maintenance, landscape, rental and construction businesses. We also provide a complete line of replacement parts for the products we sell and back up our products with factory-trained technical service, customer service, and warranty personnel. Midwest Equipment is the authorized distributor for the SCAG, ECHO, ECHO-BearCat, Shindaiwa, and Billy Goat product lines.
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- Business Type:
- Distributor
- Industry Type:
- Agriculture
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
Midwest Equipment was founded originally as Cates ...
Midwest Equipment was founded originally as Cates Brothers Texaco Service in January of 1951. The business flourished and evolved into diversified products and services; one of which was lawn and garden equipment.
1957 Cates Brothers Texaco Service was discontinued and Midwest Nursery and Equipment was formed. During this period, a bowling supply company was also part of the operation.
1962 the business was divided; with Bill Cates continuing with the nursery and bowling supplies business and Ben Cates continuing with the lawn and garden retail and wholesale business under the name of Midwest Equipment & Supply Co.
On August 24, 1970, Midwest Equipment & Supply Co. was incorporated and became even more involved in lawn and garden wholesale distribution serving Southern Indiana and a portion of Kentucky.
1974 the retail operation was sold to Meuth Equipment Company and Midwest Equipment & Supply Co., Inc. became totally dedicated to the wholesale distribution of outdoor power equipment as we know it today.
Our Company now serves Indiana, Kentucky, Central/Southern Illinois and Missouri for several major lines of outdoor power equipment and is considered nationally as one of the most successful operations in the Industry.