{"id":419,"date":"2017-01-02T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-12-30T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:05:23","slug":"colliers-30th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/community-involvement\/colliers-30th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Colliers Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary in 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FINAL_-300x233.png\" alt=\"30th anniversary logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FINAL_-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FINAL_-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FINAL_-1024x795.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 2017! We hope that it will be a great year for you and your family. It\u2019s a particularly special year for us, since it marks our 30th year of providing quality service to the community of Northeastern Indiana when it comes to heating and cooling.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>A Little Bit of Our Long History<\/h2>\n<p>How did it all start? Let\u2019s flip the calendar back 30 years to 1987\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-421 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Joe-and-Ken-colliers-first-year\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In May of 1987, Joe Collier decided to leave his previous employer (Danner\u2019s) to start his own HVAC business. He bought a truck and hired a graphic artist to create our original logo. The first job he did as a new business owner was to run a gas line for a lady in Palestine, IN.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Gas Fuel and Services\u2014a Lennox dealership\u2014put their business up for sale. Joe didn\u2019t want to make the jump to purchase the company on his own, so he called up his pal Ken Diekhoff, one of his former co-workers of Danner\u2019s. Walmart was treading closely behind Danner\u2019s where they both worked\u2014and so started the story of Joe and Ken\u2019s partnership. In the late summer\/early fall of 1987, Ken and Joe teamed up to create Collier\u2019s Commercial Services, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s our goal to bring some of our long history to the present with our 30th Anniversary logo. The original Collier\u2019s logo was orange with a mint green-teal color. We made the choice to incorporate those colors along with the year that our great company started into the new logo.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Collier\u2019s has taken great pride in our position as the most trusted in the industry for three decades. Including trust in this logo shows that significance of this quality for our company. It is what we believe in, and it is a foundation to everything else that we\u2019ve built. This year, everyone is going to know that we\u2019re celebrating an important birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Collier\u2019s Heating &amp; Air Conditioning: For 30 years, <\/strong><strong>a company you&#8217;ve grown to trust in Fort Wayne, IN and throughout Northeastern Indiana!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a particularly special year for us, since it marks our 30th year of providing quality service to the community of Northeastern Indiana when it comes to heating and cooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[103,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustcolliers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}