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A Legacy of Leadership: The Enduring Impact of Denise Carol Dahms

“What did you learn?” This was a common response from Denise Dahms, our president, when the team here at Delden Manufacturing and Renner Garage Door made a mistake or a decision didn’t go completely to plan. Denise was a respected leader who expected a lot from her employees and valued honesty and hard work. She was known for her clear ideas and direction for the […]

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Delden Hosts 2018 Customer & Employee Appreciation Day

Garage door dealers from all over the Midwest attended Delden’s biennial Customer & Employee Appreciation Day on September 14, 2018, at Delden’s corporate office in Kansas City, Missouri. All attendees received a bag with Delden promotional materials, Delden t-shirt and a raffle ticket. Raffle prizes included various gift cards, Kansas City Chiefs fan gear and two LiftMaster WLED electric openers. Lunch was grilled by Randy […]

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Delden Hosts Customer & Employee Appreciation Day

Dealers from all over the Midwest region attended Delden Manufacturing’s biennial Customer and Employee Appreciation Day in October. The event demonstrates Delden’s appreciation to its staff and garage door dealers. It is also an opportunity to feature products and designs offered by Delden including Amarr/Entrematic, Haas Door, Fimbel ADS, Goff’s Enterprises, C.H.I. Overhead Doors, LiftMaster and Delden‘s own Your Home Your Design garage door collections. […]

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Remembering Our Founder, Elmer “Gene” Renner

From left: Willy Dahms, Gene Renner, Denise Dahms, and Brad Dodson. KC Delden Christmas party, 2014. “The past is the past. Move forward with your plan. You just keep your eyes forward instead of always looking back.” Those wise words were spoken by our founder Elmer “Gene” Renner, to his daughter, Denise Dahms, our president. We hope Gene would understand that we’d like to take […]

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