Optimizing Locations in the Chicagoland Area

In February of 2022, AHW acquired the four Buck Brothers John Deere dealerships in Hampshire, Harvard, Libertyville and Wauconda. After much consideration, it became clear a consolidation of facilities could enable AHW to provide greater service capacity to the area. Today we are excited to announce our plans for this transition.

Our current AHW location in Elburn IL will be closing on December 31, 2022. Our employees, along with our inventories and service equipment will be moving to the Hampshire and Somonauk locations. Plans are underway to continue providing service to the Elburn area in new and exciting ways:

 Shop expansions in Somonauk and Hampshire will provide greater shop space than the current Elburn shop, giving AHW more overall shop space to accommodate additional service technicians.

 2 new service trucks have been ordered and will be equipped to provide at-home breakdown service or routine maintenance service. This includes our popular Snow to Mow and Mow to Snow services.

 We are centralizing dispatch for pick-up and delivery service to increase efficiency and add capacity to serve more customers.

 We are increasing our capacity for outside sales representatives, for customers who want to work with a sales representative in person at their own property.

 We are enhancing our online capabilities for customers who desire a virtual or remote experience and prefer goods and services to be delivered at their doorstep or driveway.

These investments in facilities, employees, and equipment are intended to give AHW greater overall capacity to serve our customers. Our objective is to provide a better customer experience from two nearby facilities each with enhanced capability, overcoming the limited capacity challenge with our current location at Elburn.

Most importantly, we continue to recognize our fantastic employees who complete the customer service experience. ALL AHW employees from the Elburn store will be given the opportunity to transfer to either Hampshire or Somonauk where they can continue their tradition of providing excellent service to our customers.

We understand this consolidation will be a change for many of our customers. We want to assure them AHW remains committed to provide the highest level of service to our valued customers, and we look forward to serving them at the Hampshire and Somonauk locations.