From the CEO – A Message from Richard Hunter, November 2001

Today’s irrigation professionals are facing a difficult challenge: how do I continue to grow my business and increase my profitability in a difficult economic climate? In our current environment, contractors and irrigation designers alike are looking for supplier partners that can help them meet their goals.

At Hunter, we’re listening to your needs. We recognize our commitment to you must extend beyond just providing you with a superior full line of irrigation products. We’re also committed to providing you with helpful tools and services that you can use to be more efficient and more successful.

Savvy contractors are already well aware of our commitment to providing an additional resource that can help contractors enhance their operations and professionalism. As members of the industry’s premier rewards program, Hunter Preferred Contractors have been able to leverage regular purchases into free tools, training and support. Over the past year, we’ve seen contractors use their Points earned in the program to acquire new equipment, employee uniforms, promotional materials and more. Since the program is flexible, the more Hunter products you purchase, the greater the rewards to enhance your business.

Our commitment to the growth of contractors’ businesses is also evidenced in many other ways. Expansion of our ongoing education program, the Hunter Institute of Irrigation, with the addition of seminars on effective estimating. An enhanced Yellow Pages Program that improves contractor advertising efforts for an exceptionally low price (Hunter pays 50% of the cost and Preferred Contractors can use their Points to pay the balance). And, of course, the industry’s widest array of contractor literature and selling tools, designed to help you make better sales presentations and thus earn more business.

For irrigation designers, we’ve worked hard to provide better support and technical information, including product technical drawings, in a variety of formats (printed, CD-ROM, Web site) so it’s handy at your fingertips in preparing designs. We realize you have a lot of information to gather and juggle – so it’s important that as a supplier we make it readily available to you. And, the combined support of our local Factory Specification Sales team and our Hunter DATA Line (760-744-5240) provide in-house technical experts who can answer your questions – about any Hunter product or on irrigation in general – and help you get your designs completed quickly and efficiently.

Over the past two decades, Hunter has not simply become a bigger company, we have also become a better company. Because we’ve not lost sight of the fact it is more than just great products that make the difference. It’s the things like people who are always there to share their expertise, and programs that can lend a helping hand, that assist you in making your company the best it can be. Thank you for your support.