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January 5, 2016 | Horizon SalesEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Horizon Sales, a leading manufacturers’ representative corporation, specializing in the sales and marketing of premier electronics assembly equipment, announces that it will celebrate its 25-year anniversary in 2016. Horizon Industrial Systems, Inc. (DBA Horizon Sales) was incorporated in January 1991. The company takes great pride in its ability to maintain a strong customer base as a well as the stability and longevity of its core product lines.
Dave Trail, President of Horizon Sales commented, “I am both thrilled and humbled as we enter our 25th year of operations. When I started this company 25 years ago, both our industry and the world were much different than they are today. However, our conviction to serve our customers to the best of our ability has not changed throughout those years.”
Horizon manages and sells to the mid-western states of: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania, and recently added Illinois, Eastern Iowa and Wisconsin. In business for 25 years, Horizon has supplied equipment and supplies to some of the most well-known names in the industry including: Saline Lectronics Libra Industries, Rockwell Automation, DynaLab, Motorola, TT Electronics, Kimball and Jabil Circuits. Horizon has furnished these important manufacturers, and many others, with state-of-the-art equipment and supplies, helping them to achieve best-in-class status in their respective markets.
The years have allowed Horizon Sales to grow and mature as a company much as the SMT and electronic assembly industry has matured and diversified. The company continues to stay a step ahead of the technology curve so that when the time is appropriate for its customers to rise to the next level in their technology and manufacturing skill set, Horizon Sales is there and fully prepared to offer the solutions that they will need. Mr. Trail added, “It is our intention to continue to invest in our people and resources in the coming years as we have done in the past, so that when we are called upon to support our customers’ needs, we are not only ready, knowledgeable and prepared, but are eager, excited and happy to be of service.”
About Horizon Sales
Horizon Sales is a manufacturers’ representative corporation supplying machinery and supplies to the electronics industry. Located in Brighton, Michigan and Lockport IL, Horizon manages and sells to the following states: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Eastern Iowa and Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.horizonsales.com.
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