E-Z-GO, a Textron Company, Partners with OPEESA Member Dixie Sales Company

E-Z-GO Partners With Dixie Sales Company to Offer Outdoor Power Equipment Dealers Exclusive Sales and Service Growth Opportunity

Browns Summit, NC January 10, 2011

E-Z-GO, a leading US manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, has partnered with OPEESA member Dixie Sales Company, an independent, full service, value added distributor established in 1914, to offer qualified outdoor power equipment (OPE) dealers across the United States the opportunity to become an E-Z-GO Authorized Sales and Service Center.

Once qualified, an E-Z-GO Authorized Sales and Service Center can provide OEM E-Z-GO parts and accessories and vehicle service for hundreds of thousands of E-Z-GO cars and Cushman utility vehicles in use today. And have the opportunity to sell new and remanufactured E-Z-GO cars.

“This is an unprecedented opportunity for our U.S. OPE Authorized Service Center customers who qualify and become E-Z-GO Authorized Sales and Service Centers,” said Mike Rounsavall, President of Dixie Sales Company. “Every golf course, utility, industrial plant, distribution center, resort or hotel, retirement community, or personal E-Z-GO car user is a potential customer, offering nearly unlimited growth potential to our qualified OPE service centers. The selection of Dixie Sales Company by E-Z-GO is further acknowledgement of the value and quality of our authorized OPE service center relationships and network, established across the United States and nurtured over the past 97 years.”

Outdoor Power Equipment dealers and service centers interested in becoming an E-Z-GO Authorized Sales and Service Center, and who believe their company has the business and financial strength, and quality service reputation to qualify, should contact Dixie Sales Company at  ezgo@dixiesales.com or call the Dixie Sales Company E-Z-GO Hot Line at (877) 405-5320 to request an E-Z-GO Authorized Sales and Service Center Information and Registration Packet.

ABOUT DIXIE SALES COMPANY

Dixie Sales Company, established in 1914, is an independent, full service, value added distributor that enhances end-user experiences with consumer products in the United States and Canada, utilizing key core-competencies in customer service, integrated distribution and logistics, product-support service networks, and return product management.

Dixie Sales Company has three distribution centers in Greensboro, NC, Memphis, TN and Toronto, Canada, as well as two call centers that handle over one million calls a year with customer support in English, French and Spanish.

Long established relationships with dozens of manufacturers and multiple-store retailers has enabled Dixie Sales Company to create a network of thousands of service centers across the United States and Canada that provide exceptional service support for many types of consumer products.

Manufacturers and their retailer partners trust Dixie Sales Company to provide innovative and cost-effective product-support solutions to enhance their customers’ product experience.

ABOUT E-Z-GO

E-Z-GO, founded in 1954, became a Textron Inc. company in 1960, and is now a leading world-wide manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles. E-Z-GO builds hundreds of thousands of vehicles each year in its 650,000-square-foot world headquarters in Augusta, GA. More than 40 different vehicle models are produced under the E-Z-GO and Cushman brands for a variety of applications and industries.

Products under the E-Z-GO flagship include golf course fleet cars, shuttle and luggage carrying cars for the hospitality and retirement industries, industrial and commercial cars to move people and material around factories and distribution centers, turf maintenance cars with hauling capabilities up to 1200 pounds, and the new 2Five car, street legal on most roads with up to 35 mph speed limits. E-Z-GO also produces the Cushman® line of heavy-duty material carriers.