THIRTY EIGHT YEARS AND GROWING

On October 1^st of 1970 I sat at my kitchen table and put together monthly statements for six customers.  Customers that my dad, Elmer Britton, had cultivated during his employment at A. W. Garlieb Implement.  Mr. Garlieb was ready to retire and with his blessing Elmer took the lessons he had learned and opened his own business in a rented building on the south side of Huntley, Illinois.  The building was pretty crude but with lots of hard work a parts department and offices were added to the shop area.

99% of the customers of B&K during the 1970’s were local farmers.  The mid to late seventies were economically good for the farm community.  They supported B&K Power and in 1978 Elmer purchased the property on Harmony Road.  A new building was erected on this property in 1980.  B&K moved to this new location in November of 1980.

The 1990’s were a decade of change.  The sleepy country roads were becoming home to commercial and residential developments.  B&K Power changed their product mix to meet the needs of the new residents of the area while still maintaining equipment, parts and service for long time customers.

Elmer retired from B&K Power in 2004.  He handed the reigns of the company to me, his daughter, Barbara Christ.  Times are still changing and product mix needs to be adjusted to suit that changing landscape but please know that B&K Power Equipment will always be “ Large enough to Know, but Small enough to care”.

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