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Alexandria was where the train line ended in Dakota Territory and a business began in 1888. The passenger, George H. Montgomery, had gotten on board in his native Wisconsin and gotten off when he could […]
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October 12, 2017 – Fargo, North Dakota The Lillestol Family of Lillestol Research was presented the 2017 Edward Shorma Excellence in Family Business Award in Moorhead, Minnesota, on October 12. Lillestol Research was founded in […]
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Rapid City Family Receives Regional Family Business Award October 9, 2017 – Rapid City, South Dakota The Patnoe Family of Liberty Superstores was presented the 2017 Coca-Cola Excellence in Family Business Award in Rapid City, […]
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Fourth-generation auto dealership owners plan more growth Ernest Patnoe’s motto in the 1930s was “We smile when you come, you smile when you leave.” Almost nine decades later, the family-owners of Liberty Superstores are still […]
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Cloverdale Foods in Mandan, N.D., has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 100 years. But just because it’s the same family doesn’t mean it has always been the same business. […]
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Family learns to strike balance — while running a business that responds to emergencies Stacey Thomas’ father, Jerry, started their family business with one van, a few air movers and dehumidifiers. Since 1992, Specialized Cleaning […]
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Muth Electric builds on decades of success with plan for the future It was somewhere in Vietnam – likely while driving a U.S. Army truck or on guard duty – that Dick Muth made a […]
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Brothers Bryan and Keith Miller learned organizational leadership at a young age. Their father was the academic vice president — akin to the chief operations officer — of a small college in their Nebraska hometown, […]
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It’s a classic entrepreneurial story: Identify a problem, create a solution, build a business. Dillon Moffatt wasn’t thinking about founding a company back in 1954. The self-taught auto mechanic from Minnesota was just trying to […]
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