Every community knows the importance of courting new businesses and helping nurture the businesses that are already there: more jobs, more property taxes, more money flowing back into the local economy. For decades, the model for economic development revolved around each city jealously guarding its economic interests, snagging interested businesses that came through the area and focusing on the area within its own borders.
For Bill and Kirsten Freitag, construction is a core part of who they are and what they do. The owners of Wilcon Construction understand the importance of creativity, innovation and quality, building these concepts into every housing unit they construct.
The Wisconsin native first discovered his love for team dynamics in high school, playing on the football team. He pursued that passion into college, playing as the tight-end on the college football team for four years even though his school didn’t offer football scholarships. After he graduated, he looked for a job that could offer him that same team spirit, and he found it in a rather surprising place: Walmart.
Just weeks after Daniel Theobald graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1989, he got a call from Scott Veldman, the president of Micro-Trak Systems in Eagle Lake. The company, Veldman said, was looking to expand its sales force—would Theobald be interested in interviewing for a position?
When Amy Stearns and Kari Mulvihill began chatting over their lunch hour at Carlson Craft, they never thought it would lead to them opening their own business together.
Kristi Schuck and Marie Farley Christensen became friends under rather difficult circumstances: the two women were attending a support group for people who lost their spouses to cancer.
Jeff Eckerdt has been riding motorcycles since he was a kid, so it makes sense that he recently opened his own motorcycle parts and service business.
Habitat for Humanity of South Central Minnesota’s seventh annual Home Tweet Home will be on April 21 at the Country Inn
The Regional Center for Entrepreneurial Facilitation (RCEF) is still looking for entrepreneurs to participate in its remaining 2016 BizPitch events. BizPitch
