Daequip was originally founded by Dean Edwards in 1989. For the first decade or so, the company was a small shop based in Mission, before moving to Maple Ridge and eventually to Langley. In 2012, they expanded and moved to their current location in Port Kells Industrial Park. Throughout their history, Daequip has serviced the local market primarily through contractors and small dealers, with their leads generated primarily by referrals and word of mouth. In the spring of 2015, Ed Lingel purchased the company with a vision to grow and expand the product line and customer base. Ed began his career working in a family precast concrete business. After selling that company, he was headhunted by a large attachment manufacturer, where he worked as a sales rep for several years, travelling the United States and selling attachments to dealerships. When that company was sold, he decided to move on and take a position with a large OEM equipment distributor. Daequip was one of that company’s suppliers, and over his 13 years there, Ed formed a relationship with them. “That relationship started when I got a call from one of my customers and they demanded that I had to buy Daequip products for their machine,” he recalls. “From there, over the course of several years, I became one of Daequip’s biggest supporters, because the quality was so good and the service was so good.” When Dean decided to sell the company, Ed was his first call, as he had previously expressed FEBRUARY 2024
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