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Pro-Align Hosts Top Customers in U.S.
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Hunter Western Europe Regional Manager Tom Ksiazek demonstrates
the HawkEyeTM PowerBayTM wheel alignment
system to the group of 22 Pro-Align staff members and
customers at Hunter’s St. Louis Media
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Pro-Align, Ltd., Hunter’s United Kingdom
distributor, recently organized a visit by
some of its top customers to Hunter’s
home office in St. Louis. The group
included key United Kingdom auto service
and tire dealers.
Hunter staff members hosted a two day
seminar that included new product
introductions and visits with service
operators in the St. Louis area. Before
returning home, the group traveled to the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway to enjoy
popular, American-style open-wheel car
racing – the Indianapolis 500.
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Hunter History – 1953
National Independent Sales Team Organized
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Lee Hunter (center, black necktie) with some of the company’s
first sales representatives at an industry trade show in 1953. Hunter’s main product
at the time, the Tune-In wheel balancer, can be seen in front.
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Early in the history of Hunter Engineering Co., founder
Lee Hunter understood the necessity of a well-organized, knowledgeable and independent
sales team to establish his innovative products in the marketplace. In the early 1950s,
Hunter began assembling what would later become the industry’s largest dedicated U.S.
field sales and service organizations.
The 1955 introduction of Hunter’s highly successful Lite-A-Line wheel alignment system
marked a new era for the company and required further expansion of the sales organization.
By the end of the decade it had grown to 60 members, and Hunter Engineering was well on its
way to becoming the undercar service equipment leader.
Today Hunter’s U.S. sales and service teams number more than 650 members, covering all
50 states and U.S. territories – the same well-organized,
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