Company Profile
Crown Equipment Corporation
Company Overview
Crown is one of the world’s largest lift truck manufacturers. Crown’s award-winning line of lift trucks maintains a reputation for exceptional product design, engineering and manufacturing. From the smallest hand pallet truck to the highest lifting turret truck, Crown seeks to provide users with safe, efficient and ergonomic lift trucks that lower total cost of ownership and maximize uptime.
The company was founded in 1945 as Crown Controls Corp. by Carl and Allen Dicke and Carl’s son Jim Dicke. The name was formally changed to Crown Equipment Corporation on October 15, 1988. Crown is a privately held, family-owned U.S. company.
Headquartered in New Bremen, Ohio, Crown’s regional headquarters are located in Munich, Germany, Sydney, Australia, and Suzhou, China. Crown owns 16 manufacturing plants globally including 11 in the United States. Crown also has 325 sales and service locations throughout the world. For more information, visit www.crown.com.
Company History
1930 to Present - From Small Town to Global Leader
Please visit Crown's website at www.crown.com to learn more about the history of Crown Equipment Corporation.