112 Business View - May 2015
SUPPLY CHAIN / LOGISTICS
Fifty Years of
Strengthening the Family
Even as it grows, Hodge Company strives to maintain “smallness”
It’s been nothing if not an eventful half-century.
The Dubuque, Iowa-based entity now known as the
Hodge Company was initially established in 1958 by
Walter J. Hodge and celebrated its golden business
anniversary in 2008, but the multi-faceted operation
that exists now is a far cry from where things began
back then.
In fact, the business that was founded as a public
warehousing company now comprises four distinct di-
visions, each with a separate menu of offerings and
services.
Hodge Material Handling specializes in material han-
dling and forklift sales, while TM Logistics provides
third-party logistics. Elsewhere, Infosafe Records
Management is a commercial records storage facility
and Walter Development is a real estate development
company offering build-to-suit facilities alongside both
short- and long-term lease buildings.
The public warehousing entity was the sole enterprise
for the first two decades, before a forklift distribution
branch-out – in the form of Hodge Material Handling –
was made in the early 1980s after issues arose with
the company’s existing forklift supplier.
