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Mobility Designed to reach ‘new level’ as part of Drive  

July 12, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Mobility Designed’s portfolio of products will be in good hands at Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, thanks to the company’s expertise in global manufacturing and supply chain, says Max Younger.  DDH announced in June that it had acquired MD’s portfolio of products, including its flagship product, the M+D Comfort Crutch, and named Younger, its co-founder and chief of innovation, as its senior director of industrial design and innovation.  “Innovation...

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Back in business

June 26, 2017Jeff Rowe

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - How do you go from working in a pumpkin patch to selling a “re-invented” crutch?If you're Gerald Sloan, vice president of business development for Kansas City, Mo.-based Mobility Designed, you do it by coming out of a somewhat reluctant retirement and getting back into a business you loved for many years.Three years ago, Sloan sold his mobility devicecompany, Progressive Medical Equipment,and retired to his 40-acre horse farm outside Kansas City, where he committed...

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Mobility Designed goes viral

November 23, 2016Tracy Orzel

ATLANTA - Social media is changing the way companies market their products, Keri Lauderdale Olson told an audience in Atlanta during her Medtrade session, “How to Create Demand for a New Product with Social Media. She would know. In April, her company, Mobility Designed, garnered more than 45 million views of a video featuring their patent-pending M+D Crutch after Tech Insider, a tech offshoot of Business Insider website, picked it up. “We had a video on our website and our Facebook...

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