Our history

Matt Purdy our founder and CEO started working in the industry delivering equipment for Berrys Barbell, a retailer in Columbus Ohio

Matt opens The Equipment Guys as a manufacturers rep company.

Started prototyping of the Stray Dog Strength rack bench system the ORIGINAL pioneer for the modern-day sports performance facilities.

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First installation of the Stray Dog Strength Racks for Worthington Killborn High School.

The Equipment Guys leased our first building; a 900 square foot garage with no running water and dirt floors.

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First installation on the west coast for Easter Washington and California Riverside. 

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Nick Giglia joins our team as national sales manager. Nick and Matt were collage roommates and teammates at Ashland University. 

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Added Stray Dog Strength plate loaded and selectorized machine line to meet customer demand.

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To bring an increased quality to Stray Dog products TEG partnered with a manufacturing company with over 100 years of experience. This allowed Stray Dog products to be manufactured with best technology available including fiber lasers, CAM software and more.

Partnered with Ecore to bring high quality flooring to our customers.

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Started implementing custom banner braces on our racks to help coaches develop their culture and school pride.

Installed our first "fire out" unit this was a wall mounted rack that was the predecessor to our ATR. 

Introduced our first “Auxiliary Training Rack”

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Moving into our second generation as a family owned company. We will continue to evolve and improve upon our products and service while maintaining our core values that got us to this point. 

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