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MATTCO Manufacturing has been an independent manufacturer specializing in the oilfield service industry since 1947. Tammy Ahlgren’s father purchased the company in the 1980s and Tammy is continuing the legacy as she and her husband, Jason, are now the owners of MATTCO.
In 1944 Robert Winston and his son, Maynard, pushed their cart of flowers onto Boston’s Newbury Street. Little did they know, this small flower cart would flourish and grow into a widely respected New England business that has been named “Florist of the Year” and is a frequent “Best of Boston” award-winner.
A degree in Business Administration fresh in hand, George Buffett started Buffett’s Candies in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1955. Though a long-standing success, the candy business does best in the winter due to the fact that over 60% of your business comes in during the three months with “candy” holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day. To balance his year, Buffett also ventured into the concessions business, which does best in the summer.
Headsetters™ of Omaha, Nebraska has grown from a regional provider of telemarketing equipment to an industry-leading provider of telecommunications technology, service, and expertise with an impressive list of large clients nationwide.
On August 1, 1974, Harry Hoch, Sr. purchased the rights from an Anheuser-Busch distributor in Grand Island, Nebraska, and H&H Distributing was born. The company has gone from selling a few hundred thousand cases of
beer in the early ‘70s to selling over 2½ million cases a year
today. Aiming to exceed customer expectations with every transaction, H&H is a regional powerhouse with one of the best-organized brewing companies in the world behind it.
While experiential marketing and data capture seem like recent catchwords, Elite Marketing Group has been a market leader in these and many other innovative marketing practices for over thirty years.
Ennis Corporation was already one of the most successful road covering companies in the United States. With the purchase of Flint in 2012, Ennis-Flint became one of the biggest road covering and marking providers in the world.
Though Cannon Sleep Products is one of the premier mattress manufacturers in the United States today, their story started in a rather different industry.
Zeager Bros began in 1967 as a family-owned sawmill in Pennsylvania. “We had some byproducts from the milling operation which led us into producing landscaping mulch in the 1970s,” says Bob Zeager.
On July 4, 1999, Wayne Wagner founded Wagner Media in his Houston, Texas garage. Over the next 14 years, Wagner built up a reputable business by supplying event management professionals with the best projectors, screens, and other audio/visual rental equipment.
Smith Paint Products was formed in 1929, providing paint for central Pennsylvania long before giant home improvement stores existed. Over 80 years later, Smith Paints is still going strong, and now specializes in a wide array of formulas for all kinds of covering applications.
Based in Jupiter, Florida, a coastal town near West Palm Beach, FL, A1 Moving and Storage is gearing up for a busy season when most people like to take their vacations. Founded in 1972, this is A1’s 40th summer of helping people and companies relocate all over the United States, and even internationally.
With nearly 25 years in the business of furniture manufacturing, Legends Furniture has come a long way from their initial 800 sq. foot facility. Now occupying a 26-acre site in Tolleson, Arizona, the family-owned business makes over 400 different furniture units and employs 140 people.
How many orders a day must a 120-person company fulfill to consider itself a success? A few dozen? A few hundred? KMM, a New Jersey-based supply chain solution provider, manages nearly 14,000 order line transactions a day. The kicker? Most of those orders aren’t touched by human hands until they are loaded for shipping.
Wilson Case is responsible for protecting the world’s most sensitive, expensive, and mission-critical equipment. Whether it is heading to the office space or to outer space, to medical operating theaters or to the theaters of war, Wilson Case’s specialized shipping cases keep the contents safe and sound.
What do you do when you need mobile device capabilities in your warehouse, but don’t want to be tied to a system that only works on expensive specialized mobile equipment? With the growing selection, increasing quality, and falling prices of consumer tablets and mobile devices, shouldn’t you be able to find a warehouse system that supports those widely available products?
Northwestern Tools, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio manufactures and sells a wide variety of American-made products for work-holding and fastening applications. These products include spring and ball plungers, stainless steel components, clamps, hoist rings, and much more. Founded in 1942 by Gene Thomeczek, Northwestern Tools has remained a family business being managed for 45 years by his son, Jim and is now presided over by Jim’s son, President Brian Thomeczek.
Starting in 1968 with one grocery store in Faith, South Dakota, Lynn Feist created an enduring company that now serves western and central South Dakota with 10 grocery stores as well as liquor and convenience shops.
In 1951 A.G. Brainerd started a business to provide commercial service and filter changing in Memphis and the Mid-South. To answer the need he found for compressors when servicing Heating, Venting, and Cooling (HVAC) equipment, Mr. Brainerd began rebuilding his own compressors. Other service companies caught on, and began contracting The Brained Company for their own large air-conditioning compressor needs.
Mancuso Chemicals of Niagara Falls, Ontario, supplies a variety of specialized products for coatings industries. They are experts in creating resins that go into industrial paints, such as the tough paint used for lines in the roads, street signs, and appliances.
In 1945, Robert Whitesell left his position as Chief Engineer at P.R. Mallory and Company, having developed key electronic innovations for the allied war effort.
Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Grand Prairie Foods specializes in ready to “heat and eat” products for the retail, hospitality, convenience, vending, and school foodservice channels. The company was founded in September 2003 when Kurt & Valerie Loudenback purchased the assets of a longtime producer of barbecued ribs, shredded pork and beef, and other fully cooked, ready to eat meat items.
At the southernmost point of the Caribbean archipelago, the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is home to a thriving tourism industry, a revived gas and oil mining boom, and an emergent agricultural renaissance.
When service professionals in and around Jackson Mississippi need their trucks modified to fit their jobs, they turn to Buck Sullivan.
Serving the greater Chicago area from a home base in Tinley Park, Illinois, the St. Coletta’s of Illinois non-profit community organization has been helping individuals with special needs lead more independent lives for over 60 years.
In the foothills of Mt. Rainier, an area civilized by loggers and gold seekers, another area treasure can be found. In the early 1900s, while the world rushed past them to mine the area’s natural resources, Judson and Elizabeth Wilcox purchased a farm 65 miles south of Seattle.
Imagine coordinating payroll for 600 employees spread across 12 companies. Now imagine that these companies were composed of dozens of independent departments.
Nuvo‘s main business is in private label and sub-contracting, as well as producing product lines for two affiliate companies. One manufacturing plant produces their goods, which are sold globally through three distribution centers in Miami.
Weaver’s Store Knits Traditional Business Know-How with New Technology - Located just outside of Denver, Pennsylvania, Weaver’s Store, Inc. is a longstanding success story and local retail powerhouse.
In an age when most companies diversify in any way they can, ROLAIR has thrived by perfecting one kind of product: air compressors built for professional contractors.
Victus manufactures and distributes medical supplies and nutritional supplements, supplying medical establishments and big box retailers in 33 countries spread across North and South America.
Prides Corner Farms' rapid growth and need for a more robust system led them to choose the SQL server-based system offered by Open Systems: TRAVERSE Enterprise Edition.
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