P&K Equipment
Owner: Barry Pollard
Location: Owasso, Okla.
Business: P & K Equipment
Salesmen: Billy Franks (pictured) and Tony Carlson
History: Billy Franks and Tony Carlson are salesman for P & K Equipment in Owasso, Okla. They explained that this John Deere dealership began 31 years ago when Barry Pollard and Wendell Kirtley began with one store in Kingfisher, Okla. The business has expanded to 10 locations in Oklahoma and nine in Iowa, including the corporate office in Enid, Okla. P & K Equipment pays attention to the different demographic profiles in each store and provides goods and services that match those demographics.
Products and Services: The Owasso location, which opened in 2007, is more urban, with most customers being residential, commercial, hobby or smaller farm owners. The Owasso store offers lawn and garden mowers as well as commercial mowers for their urban customers who cut and care for their own green spaces or hire someone else to do so. Also available is a full line of Stihl products including weed eaters, leaf blowers and saws. Another part of the inventory includes Honda small engine products, such as walk-behind mowers, generators and water pumps. In addition, hobby and smaller farmers’ often seek compact tractors and related implements such as box blades and rotary cutters to clear or keep down brush. Most have front end loaders to help with moving hay and feeding livestock. All products are supported by compatible John Deere oils, filters and hand tools as well as trained parts and service departments technicians servicing everything they sell. P & K equipment stores carry John Deere farm toys as well as John Deere branded bicycles and pedal tractors, and clothing.
Philosophy and future: Customer service is the focus of P & K’s business philosophy. Proven and trusted businesses, P & K Equipment and 175-year-old John Deere will always be here to help. Aware of the changing agricultural demographics with fewer young people involved, P & K Equipment makes a concerted effort to heavily support FFA, 4-H and other educational opportunities.
