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Leading at Scale: Family creamery, branding firm to detail strategies that led to growth

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The owners of Sweet Grass Dairy had reached an inflection point. Second-generation owners Jeremy and Jessica Little recently had purchased the Georgia-based creamery from Jessica’s parents, Desiree and Al Wehner, and it literally was time to transition the business into its next generation. In preparation to scale, Jessica participated in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small […]

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Nation’s oldest economic forecasting firm to share insight at upcoming event

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What if you could forecast economic and market conditions precisely enough that businesses could use that data to make timely adjustments? ITR Economics is the nation’s oldest privately held, continuously operating economic research and consulting firm. Since 1948, it has provided business leaders with economic information, insight, analysis and strategy. Its overall forecast accuracy since

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Next-gen family business members to share insights on leadership development

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While they and their families run successful auto dealerships, home furnishing stores and ag manufacturing operations, these next-generation business leaders also have a lot in common. They’ve all grown and developed their careers within their businesses and through experiences outside of them. Max Patnoe, Emily Schmitt and Eric Sinclair will share their lessons learned at a

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Discover your pricing power with insight from expert at upcoming event

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If you’re excellent at what you do, you should be paid accordingly. The theory sounds simple enough, but often business owners fall short of charging for their own value. Casey Brown has built a career helping change that. The owner of Boost Pricing, she first helped execute pricing strategy for the likes of General Electric

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Family business conference to feature lessons from ‘Texas patriarch’ on original Southfork Ranch

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Douglas Box is the first to tell you his family business story isn’t one to try to emulate. “It’s basically a horror story, a cautionary tale, and you might even hear me say on stage that it’s my driver’s education shocker film,” said Box, who was the second generation of a Texas business that would

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Planning for the future proves priceless for family development company

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It started with a question to the team: What would you be nervous about if the CEO/owner were no longer around? The answers gave Craig Lloyd the motivation needed to start thinking seriously about succession planning. “The list they came up with was quite long,” said Lloyd, who co-founded the Sioux Falls development, construction and

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Family behind growing baked goods business works on recipe for multigenerational success

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In between baking breads, buns, croissants and frying signature donuts, the owner of a premium bakery products provider realized he needed to find the recipe for something his own business needed: a board of directors. “As our business continues to grow and perhaps my time horizon being active in it every day wanes, I felt

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Industry-leading tower business sets sights on supporting next generation

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Craig Snyder calls his company a “laboratory of human development.” He says it everywhere from new-hire orientations to executive committee meetings and all-staff trainings. Including to his children. Snyder, CEO of VIKOR, has built a family business from the ground up – all the way up, to thousands of feet off the ground, where its

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Next-gen family business members connect, learn at popular retreat

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They came from 27 businesses across five states. And with 60 next-generation family business members, the group that spent two days in Deadwood recently marked the largest attendance at the Next Gen Retreat in the 31-year history of the Prairie Family Business Association. “It exceeded our expectations and tells us that the next gens are

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From high schoolers mowing lawns, brothers become multi-location family business owners

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Cole Weller acknowledges this is “the all-American story” of entrepreneurship. He and younger brother, Brent, started Weller Brothers Landscaping while they were students at Brandon Valley High School in the early 2000s. “High school kids mowing lawns – that’s how we started,” he said. “We just are the ones who never quit, and now we’re

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