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Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) is an international trade association representing over 800 industrial equipment companies that rent and sell equipment used in construction, mining, energy, agriculture and other industrial applications. The association runs congressional lobbying, education, research, networking and public relations programs. AED was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aednet.org/about-aed/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aednet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ResourceGuide2015.pdf )〕 The chairman of the association is Don Shilling, owner of General Equipment and Supplies in Fargo, North Dakota, a construction equipment supply company that employs around 250 people. == History == In 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin native Morton R. Hunter, stepson to President Herbert Hoover’s secretary, graduated from the University of Michigan with a civil engineering degree. After college, he joined the Kern-Hunter Company, a machine distributor, as a salesman. Within a year, he bought the company and renamed it to Hunter Machinery Co. Hunter and his company invented the first bulldozer used to plow snow off roads. He also invented the first truck-mounted cement mixer.〔 In 1919, he created the Associated Equipment Distributors as a trade association for companies like his own.〔 In 1954, Hunter returned to AED as a member of the advisory board.〔 In 1966, independent distributors of construction equipment sold $1.1 billion in new equipment and $270 million in used equipment in the United States. That year, America had a fleet of 23,000 service repairmen. 900 distributors and 400 manufacturers operated in the U.S. and Canada in 1966. In 1969, only one founder of AED was still living: Morton R. Hunter of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The AED Foundation (AEDF) was formed in 1991 to offer "professional education and workforce development." AEDF accredits equipment technology educational programs at colleges in the United States.〔 In 2000, AED and TradeYard, Inc., an online trading network, announced the creation of a national inspection program for used construction equipment sold over the Internet. In that year, total e-commerce sales in the U.S. were $26 billion (compared with $298 billion in 2014). In 2004, Dale Vaughn, head of OCT Equipment in Oklahoma City, was elected president of AED. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Associated Equipment Distributors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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