SEPTEMBER ‘18 INSIGHT. Monthly Employee Newsletter.
THANK YOU TEAM! We just finished September business and posted strong sales well ahead of prior year. We continue to build the momentum we need to become stronger as an organization to better serve our customers. I am so proud of all of you for your “Get it Done” attitude through a very busy year. We started the year with momentum by bringing in new and used business right out of the blocks in January. Many of us were focused on bringing in the four NE Montana Farm Equipment Sales stores into C&B, which became official in March. Then came the Noteboom Implement project, which was our largest yet. We also launched our re-branding project which simplifies our name to our customers and focuses our team under one name. Lastly, we have reorganized the management structure of our organization above the store level to provide more support and focus to the departments of each store. I am so excited about all of these changes and how they will support additional growth during the balance of the year and into 2019. We have a lot to get accomplished before year-end with fall harvest and planting and support of our ranchers, consumers and golf and turf customers. We are heavy in new and used equipment inventory and need to find good homes for it. We need to end the year lean and mean. Parts and Service have done a great job in growing their business and need to keep that momentum going through fall and into 2019. I believe in you and thank you for all we have accomplished this year. Let me know what you need from me, please, to continue growing trust with our customers. Have a good and safe month.
Matt
KIDS AG SAFETY DAY C&B-Ida Grove recently took part in the annual Ag Safety Day for area 4th graders sponsored by Ida County Farm Bureau. Tom Gray, Regional Inventory Manager, and Bryon Hare, Sales, spoke to the kids about combine and farm equipment safety. They ran freshly cut corn stalks through the corn head to demonstrate the speed and destruction that comes with harvesting. They also reviewed the many dangers associated with combines: the many areas that the combine operator cannot see, hot engine compartments, crop and metal debris being ejected, dangers behind the safety shields, belts, chains and drives, heavy tires and parts that can injure or kill young people. The Ida Grove Sheriff’s Department, Fire Department and ambulance/hospital also participated, as will as Nutrien Ag Systems and an Ida Grove customer who spoke about horse and animal safety.