DEFINING THE PROCESS

Mimi Cartee

During this time, we moved into systems integration. We partnered with businesses across the entire southeastern United States designing, fabricating, and installing sanitary process systems. In the greater Miami metro area, we designed and installed an HTST that tripled the plant’s volume overnight!   Our sales eclipsed $10 million and..Read More

MORE THAN DAIRY

Mimi Cartee

During Hase Smith’s leadership, M.G. Newell Company, Inc. began another growth phase. Dairy was not the only industry we served any longer. Beverage, food, and personal care plants began to fill our customer list. From the 1960s-1970s we stocked equipment and supplies for all types of sanitary processing.   In..Read More

NEW PARTNERS & OUR FIRST WAREHOUSE

Mimi Cartee

As M.G. Newell entered the next decade, our sanitary equipment sales grew alongside the list of manufacturers we represented. Partners included: Cherry-Burrell, Girton Manufacturing, Waukesha, Gaulin (now APV), Chester-Jensen, Sani-Matic, Sparta Brush, and Haynes Spray. What’s more, we are proud to represent all of these manufacturers to this day! In..Read More

MORE TIME FOR ICE CREAM

Mimi Cartee

In 1946, a new company founded by former officers of M.G. Newell, split off the implements business and named it Baldwin-Garrett Company. This allowed us to focus solely on the dairy industry with a new slogan, “Machinery and Supplies for the Milk and Ice Cream Industries.”   Jack Fleming Sr.,..Read More

PASSING THE TORCH

Mimi Cartee

In 1935, Hase Smith joined the company as a shipping clerk. No one knew at the time, that Smith would go on to become president of the company and provide 50 years of service. In addition to Smith, the company hired a third generation of Newell in 1936: Burton M…Read More