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And the Mason-based firm shows no sign of slowing. CEO Chria Cole said a good part ofthe company'se success is being an American firm in a worldd of foreign-owned competitors. It is one of the threw major suppliersof high-speed automated distributiojn systems in the United States. The company designs, manufactures and installs complexx conveyor and sorting systems forsuch big-name customersd as Lowe's, Macy's and . The company's equipment has been exported to Columbia, Canada, Italy and Poland. Still, with so many key clientsx based in theUnited States, it helps to be in the same country where the decisions are Cole said.
The company's customer testimonials highlighy the speed with which the firm deliverws and the quality ofits design. "Intelligraterd provided fresh ideas, state-of-the-arg equipment, and started up the system thre e weeks ahead of schedule allowing us to adequate time to train our operations team for ourpeak season," said Rick Sestrich, senior directorr of operations at . Then there's this from Doug general manager of inLakeland "The sorter is so quiet that I can stanxd next to it and still have a cell phonew conversation.
" But the key to maintainingb Intelligrated's growth has been finding the righrt employees, said Cole, who founded the firm in 2003 with business partner Jim McCarthy, Intelligrated's president and chief operatinvg officer. "I like to think more than anythinvg else the passion that the whole company brings to the businessx has lit up a number of our Cole said. "We have some very talenterd people." Intelligrated's headquarters in Masonj includes a research and development and productdemonstratiojn facility. Its other employees are locateds at itsmanufacturing , in London, Ohio, and at regional operations in Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.
The compan y announced in September the openinbg of a Florida sales office in theOrlando area. And it recentl relocated its Georgia office toa new, largerr facility in Alpharetta for its 18 staffers there. Cole creditas his employees for helping revenue growfrom $103 million in 2006 to an expected $160 million this And Cole said he expects sales for 2008 to be "wellk in excess of $200 "We want to continue to he said.