“This program is exceptional in that it takes a team of highly trained business developers and makes them available to me as additional staff on loan for my own research into competition, markets and offerings to expand my business capabilities. The efficiency of these program hours and the results of their research have saved invaluable time for me and my…
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[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] When advised to “loosen up,” a sales manager at Armstrong International dreamed up an imaginative Christmas card: He was photographed in a Santa Claus suit sitting on a pump trap — one of the company’s core products. The card generated more response from customers than had a previous promotional mailer, prompting the manager to continue…
As a management consultant for a Big 8 firm, Mike Hawksworth was a seasoned road warrior. Then in 1986, tired of living out of a suitcase and wanting to spend more time with his family, he launched MSS Technologies. Yet Hawksworth wasn’t content to be a lifestyle entrepreneur — he wanted to create a lifestyle growth company.
With only 10 employees at its headquarters office in Auburn, Ind., Team Quality Services (TQS) appears deceptively small. “In fact, the local community sometimes sees us as a mom-and-pop operation, but we’re far from it,” says founder Chris Straw.
Believing soup to be neglected by most restaurants, Eric Ersher decided to create a food service concept where it was no longer a bit player, but the star.
If organic food conjures up images of laidback hippies, Brian Freeman quickly blasts such stereotypes. Clean-shaven, energetic and intense, the Denver-based entrepreneur hits his office at 3 a.m. each morning to make sure last-minute orders from customers will be delivered that day.
Every day we clean up a little more of the U.S.,” says Tom Murphy, founder of LT Environmental Inc. (LTE).
A rising star in drug testing, Forensic Fluids Laboratories has rapidly grown from a one-woman show in 2005 to more than 60 employees and $12 million in annual revenue.