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South Dakota contractor’s work in his small town’s moment of crisis provides framework for growth
Each February, Gale Nitteberg, his wife Sandy and their grandchildren pack up and head south for about a month to escape the harsh South Dakota winter for the warm beaches of Florida. He says years ago he and his wife talked about leaving South Dakota and maybe moving somewhere warmer, but it was never something […]
April 1, 2014
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Family’s love of equipment, disciplined work ethic grew R.L. Caudill Construction into a company that’s hard to compete with
Robert L. Caudill started a small construction company in eastern Kentucky nearly 50 years ago. But today, at age 73, even though he’s handed the reins of the company to his sons, you still hear one complaint about the old man: “He will work you to death,” says Charles Carlton, Pike County Fiscal Court. In […]
February 28, 2014
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Knocked down by the recession, how contractor Michael Thibault came up with a plan to win at T-Bone Construction
Mike Thibault has a favorite quote: “The harder I work, the luckier I get,” he says with a big Colorado grin. But when the recession hit it brought problems that neither luck nor hard work seemed capable of solving. “It was terrible,” he says. For two decades Thibault (pronounced Tee-bow) had flourished as the […]
November 30, 2013
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HDD contractor Scott Kelly’s “Journey to Elite” pays off in Contractor of the Year win
“This is not the business for us.” That’s what Scott Kelly remembers thinking in 1995, the first time he saw horizontal directional drilling in action during a demonstration in Shrewsbury, Massachsetts. Kelly’s father James began researching HDD a year before, so the two were very interested in seeing the relatively new technology in action. Suffice […]
May 1, 2013
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