Founded by Emmerson Daily in 1985, Daily Equipment Company began with 43 employees and offices in Jackson and Gulfport, MS and Bossier City, LA. The company has been sold to Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA). Headquartered in Houston, Texas. MCFA leads the industry in material handling as a manufacturer and distributor of Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich warehouse products. (DEC photo)
Founded by Emmerson Daily in 1985, Daily Equipment Company began with 43 employees and offices in Jackson and Gulfport, MS and Bossier City, LA. The company has been sold to Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA). Headquartered in Houston, Texas. MCFA leads the industry in material handling as a manufacturer and distributor of Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich warehouse products. (DEC photo)
JACKSON – (AP) Daily Equipment Company (DEC) in Jackson has been sold to Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. in Houston, Texas, officials said.
The announcement came in a joint news release from
the companies. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
DEC is headquartered in Jackson, and has other full-service branches throughout in Biloxi and in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and Lake Charles in Louisiana.
Kent Eudy, MCFA’s vice president of sales and marketing, says DEC will continue to operate as Daily Equipment Company, with no changes in leadership, staff or support.
As part of the transaction, Daily will be resigning its representation of the Crown brand in favor of the Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich brands manufactured and distributed by MCFA.
JACKSON – Mississippi’s incumbent U.S. Congressmen Gregg Harper and Bennie Thompson both handily won their re-election bids yesterday, MPB reports.
Hundreds of 3rd District U.S. Congressman Gregg Harper’s supporters at his victory party in Pearl swelled to applause as the election was called in his favor. […]
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A small plane carrying three experienced pilots crashed Tuesday evening in a residential neighborhood in west Jackson and the victims’ friends and families want to know why.
The accident occurred near Hawkins Field Airport. The Piper PA-32 single-engine plane, registered to a company in Flowood, reportedly took off just after 5 p.m. Tuesday from Hawkins and crashed a short time later after asking air traffic control for permission to return to the airport. […]
Parents have until Aug. 30 to register for a finger-scanning system to sign children in and out of federally subsidized child care.
Jill Dent, director of the Division of Early Childhood Care and Development at the state Department of Human Services, announced the deadline last Wednesday.
By then, parents and other caregivers will have to visit county DHS offices to scan their fingers into the system, or lose their subsidy. […]
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