by Markus McDowell | Jan 4, 2016 | Press Release
Wiggins Lift Company began in Ventura County, California, in a shed with a welding rig. Today, the company ships premier forklifts all over the globe, with third-generation leader Michele Wiggins-McDowell at the helm. The founder’s wife, 95-year-old Hattie Wiggins, continues to come in to work each day. The story of how she and her husband began the company is a wonderful story of Americana, hard work, and attention to customers. We told that story in a previous post, and it garnered the attention of the local county newspaper, the Ventura County Star.
Emphasizing the family-oriented environment of the company—including the employees who are considered family—the article is a tribute to what Wiggins Lift is all about. We’d like to thank Mike Nelson and Rob Varela of the Star for the story.
Read the article >
by Markus McDowell | Dec 21, 2015 | Press Release
Here at Wiggins Lift Co., Inc, we have had a wonderful year. We hope it was the same for you and your family.
Our facilities and offices will be closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year Day as the Wiggins team enjoys the holidays. We wish all of our friends and followers a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year.
2016, here we come!
by Markus McDowell | Nov 30, 2015 | Press Release
Wiggins Lift is more than just a manufacturer. We are company of people who enjoy working together, innovating products, and working with our customers and friends. We think that making forklifts is more than just designing and building them: it is having integrity, working hard, taking pride in what we do, honesty, and a desire to make a difference.
We may not be able to bring peace to nations, or cure diseases, but we believe in trying, in our own part of lift, to make the world a better place each day—even if it is for just one person. So we try to do that each day with each other and through our interactions with customers, vendors, and anyone else we meet.
During this season, we turn our thoughts especially to family and friends. Here at Wiggins Lift, we value our team and their families. Every year before Thanksgiving and Christmas, we stop work and hold a BBQ for our whole team. We thank each other, we recognize all the hard work, and we eat a lot of good food! (Our skilled guys build great BBQ equipment, and they also cook up some mean grilled chicken, tri-tip, refried beans, potatoes—you name it! This year they went all out and added breakfast too!)
From all of us at Wiggins Lift Company, to all of our customers, dealers, vendors, friends, and acquaintances—and your families—we are thankful for you. We hope your Thanksgiving was as good as ours, and we wish you a blessed and joyful holiday season!
by Markus McDowell | Nov 16, 2015 | Marina, Press Release
Wiggins Lift Co., Inc., will once again be at the Miami International Boat Show in February. As many of you know, this is one of the largest boat shows in the world (now in its 75th year).
This year’s show is Friday, February 12—Monday, February 15. The Show also has a new location: the Miami Marine Stadium Park & Basin, across the bay from downtown Miami. The new site allows more than 1,200 boats on land and in the water with 400+ slips, a deep water basin to accommodate large boats, as well as closed and open-air tented exhibit space.
Wiggins Lift will be located at Booth E454 in the E Tent . Come by, have some refreshments, and sit and talk with us about the Marina Bull, the FLX, the dry stack industry, and anything else that strikes your fancy! Then head over to the City of Miami marina to see their new Marina Bull, which should be delivered to them right before the show.
Buy your tickets now, or visit the MIBS website for more . We’ll see you there!
by Markus McDowell | Nov 2, 2015 | Marina, Press Release
Wiggins Lift Co., Inc., has been awarded an Innovation Award at the Marina Recreation Association’s 44th Annual Educational Conference and Trade Show. The Conference was held on October 26–28 at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. CEO Michele Wiggins-McDowell and President Mike Wiggins received the award.
The Award honors development and technical advances in the recreational marina and boatyard industry, recognizing those who have advanced technology in a way that materially affects the industry.
The MRA offered the award to Wiggins for their new Wiggins Marina FLX, a revolutionary new approach to marina lifts. This unique machine has all-wheel steering, traversing mast, load-spreading, rotating cab, and Wiggins’ StabiLift™, and much more. It can perform crab steering, 4-wheel pivots, and side step turns, allowing it to maneuver in spaces never before possible. The first of these units was delivered to The Boat House Marina in Perth, Australia in September of this year.
The Award itself is a mahogany-clad custom blown glass vessel made in France. The chrome hardware and anchor cap are Belgian, and the nautically-inspired result is a handsome addition to any display case, bar or yacht. The design is based on the legendary boats of the Riviera and the look of the famous 1960’s Riva “Aquarama.” The vodka itself is made in Northeastern France with water from the French Alps, distilled five times.
Wiggins Lift thanks the MRA for this wonderful award!
The Wiggins Marina FLX in Action
