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Mayflower Vehicle Systems history
Mayflower Vehicle Systems company history timeline
Conrad M. Gentry and Don F. Kenworthy founded Mayflower Transit in Indianapolis, IN, in 1927.
In 1961, Mayflower began supporting America’s government and military moves throughout the world.
A Winnipeg native and graduate of the University of Manitoba, Schwartz enrolled in the Harvard Business School, earning an M.B.A. in 1970.
The creation of CVG was funded by Canadian investment firm Onex Corporation, founded in Toronto in 1983 by Gerald Schwartz.
Around 1987 Schwartz began focusing most of his attention on opportunities in the United States.
As part of this strategy, in 1989 he forged an alliance with Hidden Creek Industries, a Minneapolis buyout firm founded by S. A. (Tony) Johnson and Scott D. Rued after Johnson had been dismissed as chief operating officer of Pentair Inc., a Minnesota manufacturer.
The first acquisition, completed in 1990 by Onex in conjunction with Hidden Creek, was Strasburg, Virginia-based Automotive Industries Inc., the North American auto parts operation of Tate & Lyle PLC. It provided molded plastic auto parts to North American auto manufacturing plants.
In 1993 Tower Automotive was acquired, providing structural metal stamping and other assemblies for OEMs.
Mayflower joined UniGroup, Inc. in 1995, forming the nation’s largest moving and storage services provider.
A downturn in the U.K. truck market in 1999 had hurt Bostrom, leading to the sale to Onex.
Serving as chairman of CVG was Hidden Creek's Scott Rued, and taking over as CEO was Mervin Dunn, who came to the company through Trim Systems, for which he was hired as president in 1999.
1999 Trim Systems Inc. is acquired.
2000 Commercial Vehicle Systems and Bostrom PLC are acquired.
In June 2005 CVG spent another $55 million to acquire Naperville, Illinois-based Monona Wire Corp. (MWC), a deal that added both new products and new markets.
In July 2005 Onex would sell its remaining interest in CVG.
In 2018, UniGroup Shareholders voted to become a cooperative (co-op) to better serve its agents and customers by providing centralized support functions, products and services, purchasing power technology and information networks.
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