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The remaining roster is filled out by administrative sup-
port and service staff.
“Business has been really good,” Sames said. “Wheth-
er it’s a down economy or not, people are still moving
product and they still need the forklifts to move the
product, and those units need repair every now and
then, or replacement, or attention, and that’s what we
do. Then, in the last two years, we’ve taken on a com-
pact construction line, so we’re starting to broaden
our horizons.”
Quality Forklift operated out of a single Shakopee,
Minn. facility until three years ago, when it purchased
another nearby building to house a sales office. The
corporate headquarters and service functions are still
located in the original building, and a small indepen-
dent forklift repair company was purchased in August
– providing the business with additional sales and
technical presence in Farmington, about 30 miles to
the southeast in Dakota County.
The company’s territorial area consists mainly of the
Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, though it’s
expanded to include what Sames called “greater Min-
nesota,” thanks to strategically located home-based
