{"id":11903,"date":"2019-03-21T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:56:20","slug":"fitzgerald-employee-wins-trip-to-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/fitzgerald-employee-wins-trip-to-kentucky-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzgerald employee wins trip to Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS &#8211; An employee for Rockford\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldequipment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fitzgerald Equipment<\/a> will get to experience VIP treatment at this year\u2019s Kentucky Derby courtesy of Yale Materials Handling Corp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Fitzgerald-Equipment.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Fitzgerald-Equipment.png 234w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Fitzgerald-Equipment-50x31.png 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Fitzgerald-Equipment-122x75.png 122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>Yale is a nearly 140-year-old maker of forklifts and other materials handling products for customers worldwide. Fitzgerald is the exclusive Yale dealer for the Rockford area.<\/p>\n<p>Yale awarded the top dealers in three regions in branded parts sales growth with all-expenses-paid trips for two to this year\u2019s Kentucky Derby in Louisville. The race takes place Saturday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald was the top Yale dealer in growing its branded parts sales in Yale\u2019s west division. Yale has more than 150 dealers across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The annual \u201cRun for the Roses\u201d is the first of horse racing\u2019s Triple Crown and annually draws about 150,000 attendees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rockford-based Fitzgerald has locations on Boeing Drive and in Mackinaw. The company also offers Big Joe Forklift Trucks, Interthor Hydraulic Hand Pallet Jacks, Cascade Fork Lift truck attachments, Nilfisk-Advance sweepers\/scrubbers and\u00a0Taylor Dunn\u00a0Personnel maintenance vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS &#8211; An employee for Rockford\u2019s Fitzgerald Equipment will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/fitzgerald-employee-wins-trip-to-kentucky-derby\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}