JLG Industries [SEP] parent company
JLG Industries
JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of access equipment (aerial work platforms and telehandlers). The company’s products extend beyond its own well-known brand of AWPs and telehandlers to SkyTrak and Lull telehandlers; TRIPLE-L trailers, LiftPod, Peco and Ecolift and a growing line of JLG vertical and mobile stock picking lifts for material handling applications.
History.
Founded in 1969, John Landis Grove formed a partnership with two close friends and
to over 1,000 employees by 1967. That same year, against John's wishes, Grove Manufacturing was sold to the Walter Kidde Company. Internal strife between the brothers, and possible health issues, caused John to leave the company in 1968.
In 1969, John along with Paul Shockey started Condor Industries and began manufacturing self-propelled, telescoping hydraulic aerial 'cherry-picker' style lifts, primarily for the aircraft maintenance industry . In 1973, Condor Industries was renamed JLG Industries (JLG for John L. Grove).