The customer may not always be right, but they definitely know what they want from their shopping interactions: quality, loyalty, and the ability to make meaningful connections with companies.
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Creating ConnectionsThe customer may not always be right, but they definitely know what they want from their shopping interactions: quality, loyalty, and the ability to make meaningful connections with companies.
Green Wellness Life
Hemp for HealthGreen Wellness Life distributes a wide array of cannabis-based goods, used primarily for health and healing. None of its wares—sold online and at a retail outlet in Caledonia, Michigan—will get you high.
Lanau Industries
Built to LastMartin Rondeau founded Lanau Industries in his hometown, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Quebec. The concept took off when Mr. Rondeau and his small team designed and built his first truck body in his humble welding shop and recognized that he was onto something. That dump body still runs to this day, nearly two decades later.
BWS Manufacturing
Celebrating 55 Years of Trailer ExcellenceAs North American business continues to experience a return to domestic manufacturing, transportation becomes all the more vital to maintaining supply chains—and nowhere is that more evident than in trucking.
EuroSort
Sorting It Out – EuroSort Makes it Simple, Safe and AccurateDedicated to building sorting equipment that promise industry-best levels of accuracy and precision, EuroSort boasts products with the smallest discharge space possible—up to 50 percent smaller than competing technologies—and a reputation for producing small, effective, dependable, and affordable machines that can operate continuously to produce exceptional outcomes.
Live Patrol Inc.
Crime Doesn’t Sleep – And Neither Does Live PatrolAs different as they seem, construction sites, high-rise residential buildings, commercial businesses, storage facilities and even solar farms have one thing in common: they all need trustworthy and professional ‘round-the-clock security. That’s where Live Patrol comes in.
Bell and Howell
Doing the Right ThingTechnology-enabled field services company Bell and Howell services a wide range of automation equipment for multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and markets across North America. We spoke to the company a year ago, reporting on how the Durham, North Carolina-based business helps customers increase efficiency and reduce operational costs through its comprehensive solutions in retail, grocery, pharmacy click-and-collect, automation, and production mail. This month, we sat down with senior executive and grocery commerce expert James Hermanowski to learn more about the company’s work to fight food insecurity through food bank technology.
Specific Mechanical Systems
Brewing Up New Customers and ProductsSpecific Mechanical Systems is at a turning point. The Victoria, British Columbia-based firm specializes in the design, manufacture, and installation of brewing and distilling equipment for alcoholic beverages.
How Social Media has Redefined Marketing
The Economics of InfluenceThe world of social media is like ever-shifting sands. No sooner had the world become almost blasé about the global reach that the internet afforded everyone from local school students busking on YouTube to multinational corporations shipping specialist parts to technicians in Africa than we had to figure out the difference between brand ambassadors and influencers.
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Climate Change and Vulnerability in the Lone Star State
Texas is no stranger to significant weather and environmental disasters. From Hurricane Carla in 1961 to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Winter Storm Uri in 2021, and extreme heat and wildfires, flooding, and drought, no season is safe from weather extremes.
Recycled Materials Association (ReMA)
The organization now known as the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) has built a rich history for itself and continues to innovate and reinvent both its own identity and that of the industry it represents. The origins go back over a century to the early 1900s and the two associations from which it sprang. The Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel (ISIS) and the National Association of Recycling Industries (NARI) merged in 1987 to form what was then known as the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
Service Center Metals
Service Center Metals (SCM) celebrated its 20th anniversary in September of 2023, ringing in two full decades of serving the United States and Canada as an aluminum extrusions and aluminum billet provider from its native Virginia.
Hazard Control Technologies
Located just outside Atlanta, in Fayetteville, Georgia, Hazard Control Technologies, Inc. (HCT), an ISO 9001 registered company, is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides solutions at scale for fire, vapor, and contamination hazards.
Revolution Trucking
In just five years, Revolution Trucking, LLC has earned the trust of customers across America and internationally. Based in the city of Wadsworth, Ohio, Revolution is recognized as an extraordinarily reliable, premier logistics and transportation provider.
Quality Components Company (QCC)
Back in 1974, Quality Components Company (QCC) focused on repairing welding torches, regulators, and gas apparatus from other manufacturers. Known as Quality Repair at the time, the Mentor, Ohio-based business started in America’s famous ‘Rust Belt,’ a region known for its steelmaking and industrial manufacturing businesses.