Oct 18, 2019 | Celebrating Family Business
(the whole of this article appeared in MyBusiness, written by Adam Zuchetti) Cobram Motorcycles & Mowers was launched by Ron Wilson in 1987 in Cobram, Victoria. And while his family — comprising wife Vikki, son Reid, daughter Shelley and son-in-law Braden — work...
Jul 16, 2018 | Celebrating Family Business
(By MEAGAN MACEACHERN for Bonnyville Nouvelle Canada) “A lot of people get into funeral service for different reasons. Some, it’s because they’ve had a loss in their family and they see it as something they want to do. I think initially people get into it to help...
Jun 25, 2018 | Celebrating Family Business
(by Jennifer Huffman, Business Editor for the Napa Valley Register) Ken Mattson said that the pest control business is in his blood. “My grandfather Corky Mizer started Corky’s Pest Control in the Bay Area 51 years ago,” Mattson explained. It’s now one of the biggest...
Jun 18, 2018 | Celebrating Family Business
W.S. Broom & Co. Furniture has been serving the furniture needs of Illinois homeowners for over 125 YEARS, if you can believe that. How do they do it? Here’s what they have to say: (as told to Heather Roberts for IllinoisHomePage.net) We are a 4th...
Jun 11, 2018 | Celebrating Family Business
(by Grier Ferguson for Business Observer) During the Sarasota County Fair, long lines regularly formed in front of the Peachey’s Baking Co. stand. But lines snaking around Peachey’s tent and truck anywhere, really, aren’t an uncommon sight. The promise of...
Jun 11, 2018 | Celebrating Family Business
(By Abigail Curtis, BDN Staff, for the Bangor Daily News) When Kathryn Piper and Hussam “Sam” Al-Rawi, a Troy couple who own a new halal meat business, woke up one morning in April to see that someone apparently had fired a shotgun at their brand new sign, they were...
