Hightowers Petroleum Company (HPC) has successfully adapted to the challenges posed by COVID and shifting energy markets. Incorporated in 1984, this Middletown, Ohio-based, family-run gas and diesel...
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Allegion Canada Inc.
Providing Canada With the Keys to Security Success
With brands older than a century and a legacy of innovation, Allegion Canada offers the finest technology and mechanical quality in smart security locking systems. Allegion Canada’s team of industry...
Finney County Economic Development Corporation (FCEDC)
Rural Development Gets a Boost in Finney County
The county seat and largest city in Finney County, Kansas is Garden City. At a population of 32,000, it holds more than half of the county’s growing population of 40,000. Although the county has a...
Battery Solutions
Powering New Manufacturing Opportunities
In the past, batteries ended up in landfills or banished to boxes in the basement and forgotten. But today, as a new awareness has revealed the environmental fallout of used batteries, recycling has...
The Impact and Reach of Corporate Social Responsibility
From the Top Down
The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) first emerged in 1953, gained traction in the 70s, and increasingly became the standard. Today, it is an integral part of a company’s brand and...
Enabling Eco-Friendly Consumption
Buyer Aware
Living in a consumer-driven society means making numerous decisions every single day regarding purchases made in both a personal and professional capacity. With the growing awareness of and...
Madison Wood Preservers
Delivering Superior Treated Lumber
Recognized as the greatest in its class by television’s World’s Greatest in 2016, Madison Wood Preservers makes finding superb, treated lumber and agricultural fence posts easier than ever. End tags...
STAR Inc.
Founded on Knowledge and Integrity
For over 35 years, Girish C. Dubey has gone to work every morning to make a positive difference to the pavement industry – and to the world. A veteran of a demanding and crucial industry, Dubey, the...
Seafood Express Transport
Family Firm Sets New Standards in the Trucking Sector
Seafood Express Transport, a family-owned, award-winning trucking firm based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is gearing up for growth following an extremely challenging year. This company...
PECO Pallet
Red-Hot and Ready to Roll
Healthy, resilient supply chains – of food and other goods – are of the utmost importance to national security. PECO Pallet is a leader in quality pallet supply that helps North America run like...
United Service Technologies
Bringing Advanced Technology to the Grocery Sector
The pandemic continues to affect our world, but business infrastructure must endure. While restaurant sales drop, grocery chains across North America are feeling the strain, and maintaining the...
Egg Innovations
Good Eggs: Treating Chickens With Kindness
It’s not often you meet someone with a PhD in Avian Ethology — the scientific and objective study of bird behavior — but it’s evident within moments of speaking to John Brunnquell, President and CEO...
Jensen Meat Company
This Leader in the Field of Meat Production is Expanding into Plant-Based Alternatives
Throughout its sixty-year history, the Jensen Meat Company brand has become synonymous with quality meat products throughout its operating territory. The company processes high-quality beef products...
Allen Parish, LA
Spend a Day in Cajun Country
Allen Parish, Louisiana is home to a wealth of Cajun traditions and unique tourist attractions. After featuring the community several times in the past, Business in Focus caught back up with Allen...
The Port of Green Bay
Kicking off 2021 with a Gamechanger
The Port of Green Bay is an economic engine that has been driving growth and prosperity in the City of Green Bay and Northeastern Wisconsin for centuries. But its true capacity will only now be...
Improved Opportunity is Better Business
So It’s True About Diversity in the Workplace…
“Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and...
Women Entrepreneurs Balance Work and Family
Minding Your Business… and Your Children
Those who say you can’t do it all clearly haven’t met a woman running her own business while also raising a family. Attempting to balance work life with personal life when you’re a mother and a...
The Rise of Localization
Business Within the Border
What do the automobile and meat-packing plants have in common? The answer: Henry Ford. In 1913, Henry Ford, inspired by continuous-flow production flour mills and canneries, as well as Chicago’s...