Yale dealer YES Lift LLC has relocated to a larger facility in Itasca and is hiring additional mechanical technicians.

"We outgrew our other building (in Rosemont) a couple of years ago," says president Kal Anglewicz. The dealership uses YES Equipment & Services LLC as its marketing name.

After moving about 10 miles (16 km) in mid-December, the business occupies leased space of about 55,000 square feet (4,950 sqm) in comparison to its previous quarters of 22,000 square feet (1,980 sqm), its leased home for about five years.

YES Lift employs 45 staff including 22 mechanics.

"We are adding three technicians now," Anglewicz says. "We are coming through the recession very well," and YES Lift has maintained the firm's headcount without any reductions.

In the metropolitan Chicago and northeastern Illinois market, YES Lift in Itasca; Voss Equipment Inc of Harvey and Hillside, Illinois; and Fitzgerald Equipment Company Inc of Rockford and Mackinaw, Illinois represent the Yale brand of forklifts from Nacco Material Handling Group (NHMG).

A YES Lift affiliate in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin─YES Equipment & Services Inc─represents Yale in the metropolitan Milwaukee market. The entities market jointly and have an overlapping ownership structure.

In a previous article (Forkliftaction.com News #444), the Menomonee Falls location for Yale was incorrectly included in a reference to Yale dealerships serving the Chicago market.

Anglewicz is sanguine about the recent representation changes in the Chicago market for NMHG's Hyster brand, which competes against the Yale brand for sales and service in the forklift market. "We want our customers to love us, and our competitors to hate us," he says.