Bergmann Americas of Spartanburg, South Carolina, has a relatively new resume in North America. Established in January 2020, the company took off just as the world was shutting down.
Hunkering down after a ConExpo debut, company leaders – Kevin O’Donnell, president; Sterling Roberts, vice president of product support, and Tom Hartman, vice president, sales and marketing – took on the challenges of marketing a new product in the midst of a pandemic.
They’ve made significant strides, Hartman told Equipment World at the recent Associated Equipment Distributor’s Summit, where the company had several machines on display. The company now has 12 dealers with more than 120 locations and moved 70 units during its first year in operation.
It helps that the three are construction industry veterans, with backgrounds that include positions at Bell Trucks America and Hydrema U.S. In addition, O’Donnell was formerly senior vice president of sales for Bell and held positions at Moxy Trucks of America.
Hartman emphasizes that while Bergmann Americas might be new, the company it represents in U.S., Canada and Mexico is not.
German-firm Bergmann Maschinenbau started in 1961 and manufacturing a full line of what it terms as “dumpers.” (Bergmann Americas is also using the term.) Some of its products, however, might translate in the North American mind as articulated trucks or crawler carriers.
