Tokheim
began in an Iowa hardware store
a century ago.
Merchant John J. Tokheim was searching for
a way to improve the “drum and spigot” method of dispensing
kerosene and gasoline.
In
1898, he invented a pump to do the job.
The popularity of his invention, the Tokheim Dome Oil Pump, led to organizing
the Tokheim Manufacturing Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1901.
In
1918, a group of Fort Wayne, Indiana executives purchased the company
and relocated business operations to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Over the past 100 years, Tokheim has grown to be the world's leading
fuel dispenser and systems business through a series of acquisitions
and its strategy of technology innovation and quality leadership. |
