Power Equipment Direct was first conceived by Jon Hoch, the company’s founder, after an awful experience shopping for a lawnmower in 2002.
Hoch wasted an entire Saturday and $20 in gas driving between a half-dozen big box superstores and local hardware stores, trying to purchase the perfect lawnmower.
Why do we take on nature when there is a soft couch calling to us? Why does the yard have to look exactly right? In your world, good is not good enough. Everyone who has ever planted a garden or cared for their yard knows this. You don’t cut corners. You use the right tools for the job. In your world, it’s man vs. nature, and so you choose your tools like you choose your friends. For the long haul.
The 15 Principles of the Ariens Management System are based on the technique of lean manufacturing, a culture of continuous improvement. They are the standard work of Ariens Company management.
Ariens Company is a performance driven company. Continuous improvement and waste elimination are incorporated into every employee’s job and each of the company’s business processes.
Living the Ariens Company vision, “Passionate People … Astounded Customers,” requires that employees press on to exceedingly higher performance levels and develop a culture with leaders at every level.
A snow blower or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is not wanted, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, railroad track or runway. The term “snow thrower” is often used to encompass snow throwers and snow blowers, however, in proper usage a snow thrower is a machine that uses a single stage to remove or “throw” snow while a snowblower uses two stages to remove or “blow” snow. It can use either electric power, or a gasoline or diesel engine to throw snow to another location or into a truck to be hauled away. This is in contrast with the action of snow plows, which push snow to the front or side (shovels can be similarly used).
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is the nation’s fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics and automotive repair and maintenance. Sears Holdings is the 2010 ENERGY STAR® Retail Partner of the Year. Key proprietary brands include Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, and a broad apparel offering, including such well-known labels as Lands’ End, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, as well as the Apostrophe and Covington brands. It also has the Country Living collection, which is offered by Sears and Kmart. We are the nation’s largest provider of home services, with more than 12 million service calls made annually.