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Now there's a better way of getting your
irrigation supplies direct from the
manufacturer, direct shipping to your door, direct savings in your wallet.
Direct... it's in our name.
Irrigation Direct, led by 30-year
industry veteran, Bill Hayes is a manufacturer of
high-quality
irrigation products sold directly to
contractors over the Web - no middlemen, no extra handling to drive up
prices and no shipping charges. The result is the best-built, best-quality
products combining the best features of the leading brand-name parts and
still providing substantial cost savings.
Our direct business model also enables
us to quickly respond to our customers' needs and create innovations that
result in even better products at better prices. Think it works better than
those indirect distribution channels you're used to dealing with? We think
so too.
Buying at Irrigation Direct involves
only the click of your mouse for the highest quality products manufactured
to exceed industry standards - delivered FREE to your door at 35% to 50%
less than the price you currently pay at traditional suppliers. And we even
provide great service.
Forget the trip to your current supplier. Forget
sacrificing quality for price. Forget paying supplier markups to finance
their sales forces and multiple locations. Forget paying for the freight
costs of moving products from manufacturer to supplier. Forget the hassle.
Instead, think of Irrigation Direct.
A radical concept? We think you'll get used to it.
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Irrigation Direct founder Bill Hayes started in
irrigation more than 30 years ago and hasn't stopped learning and
refining his trade since. With Irrigation Direct, he has brought
together three decades of experience to create a revolutionary
irrigation company:
- Bill is an industry innovator who spots trends
and responds accordingly. As former president of Automatic Rain
Company, Bill purchased Plant Gro to make Automatic Rain Co. one of
the first distributors to stock a full line of fertilizers, chemicals
and grass seeds (it wasn't long before other major distributors tried
to emulate this strategy). Under his stewardship, Automatic Rain Co.
went on to purchase a seed and erosion control company, making it one
of the first irrigation distributors to have a full offering of
erosion control products. He orchestrated the merger between Automatic
Rain Co. and Mesa Sprinkler, creating the newly merged Horizon in
1999, for which he was chairman of the board until Horizon in 2005
sold to SCP, the largest wholesale distributor of pool supplies. He is
also the recipient of Hunter Industries' Trail Blazer Award.
- Bill understands irrigation and landscape
contractors. Bill learned the business from the bottom up with
warehouse, delivery and counter sales positions. He has acquired
extensive understanding and knowledge of the operation and maintenance
of sprinklers and controllers by building custom cast iron rotor
orders for municipalities and handling shipments to factories for
controller repair.
- Bill understands the irrigation and landscape
supply business. Prior to becoming the company's president, Bill
served as the Operations and General Manager of Automatic Rain Company
and coordinated all purchasing with irrigation industry manufacturers.
- Bill knows what product designs work and which
don't. Bill created one of the largest sprinkler rebuilding
operations and one of the largest controller repair facilities in the
nation. He founded ARCO PARTS (later R Co Parts).
- Bill has extensive experience in manufacturing
high-quality irrigation parts. Bill created the first full line of
generic after-market replacement solenoids still being sold today by
The Source under the brand R Co. Solenoids. He also created the
industry's first indexed reference replacement parts catalog, the
first full line of generic after-market repair kits, and the Uni-Key
Universal Controller Key ring, still being sold today by The Source
under the R Co brand. He has manufactured more than 500 after-market
replacement parts for most major brands of irrigation products.
- Bill has received numerous certifications:
Advanced Techniques of Controller Troubleshooting and Repair from Rain
Bird; Authorized Service Center Training from Rain Bird,
Installation-Operation-Maintenance of CLA-VAL Co. Automatic Control
Valves certificate; Backflow Prevention Devices; two-time winner of
Rain Bird's Authorized Service Center of the Year Award; "Tech Master"
status; Sprinkler System Design certificate from Rain Bird.
- Bill is an industry mentor and visionary.
Over a seven-year period, Bill conducted service seminars for more
than 7,000 industry professionals. He also created ARCO University, a
20-day extensive training for distributor personnel.
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