“It’s hard to read the label on your own bottle.” If you and your family business can relate to that thought from a fellow CEO, a workshop coming up will help you gain an enhanced perspective that will help accelerate your business goals. Conducted by Six-Point Creative, the workshop From Stuck to Sustainable: Three Steps […]
For family and ag businesses, communication, adversity and conflict can be inherent struggles – but also manageable ones. Siblings Megan Hammond, Jackson Hegerfeld and Amanda Lauer have lived it both in their own family businesses and as they help others. The third-generation family business leaders help lead both Brookings-based BankStar Financial and Advantage Land Co.
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Callie Tuschen knows what life is like as a family business owner. Tuschen, co-owner of a local business in Hartford, grew up on a cattle ranch in northwestern South Dakota. She went to school in Timber Lake and graduated from Oregon State University. She briefly worked as a teacher using the Waldorf methodology before beginning
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More families are finding the resources they need to evolve and thrive by connecting with the growing Prairie Family Business Association. This year has seen strong growth in the association’s membership, programs and resources — with plenty more to come in the year ahead. We caught up with executive director Stephanie Larscheid to learn more
How does a Texas-based family business connect with resources available in South Dakota as it transitions to a new generation? It’s all about relationships. SYOXSA is a leading distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, along with welding supplies and safety products for the Southwest region of the United States. It was founded by German
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Edward Shorma was a serial entrepreneur before the term had taken off. A North Dakota farm boy and son of immigrant parents, Shorma was a shoe cobbler, and “as he had children, he had to figure out ways to keep everybody busy and fed, so he grew innovation out of need as much as anything
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Making genuine connections, enhancing the member experience and building partnerships are among the goals for the newest member of the Prairie Family Business Association team. Mason Van Essen recently became the organization’s business development manager. A Sioux Falls native, he grew up in southwest Minnesota and graduated from Augustana University with degrees in business administration
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If your business has to ship it, their business likely can box it. Watertown Box is an independent sheet plant based in Watertown, South Dakota, that creates packaging solutions for the manufacturing, service and retail industries. “Think Amazon boxes that are properly sized for their product and printed with our customer’s logo. We also design
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Steve Hohn is the second-generation leader of a family business that has grown and thrived for decades, but he was nervous walking into a room filled with outside expertise. “There’s bankers, wealth management people, tax people, and they were all asking questions,” Hohn said. “In some ways, it’s a little embarrassing. It pulls the scab
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Farmers serving other farmers has been a guiding principle for a Huron family now looking toward its second generation. The roots for Bauman Agency are deeper than that though, beginning with Curt Bauman’s grandparents, who were farmers near Hitchcock. When Curt married Louise, they also farmed in east-central South Dakota. When a neighbor who represented
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