The story of Harris Fabrication began in a garage when founder and president Andy Harris made the decision to take his fate into his own hands.
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The story of Harris Fabrication began in a garage when founder and president Andy Harris made the decision to take his fate into his own hands.
Building a business that stays true to its values and mission while achieving long-term success.
Two Topeka-based couples prove day in and day out that individual businesses thrive when two entrepreneurial spirits come together to build each other up and capitalize on opportunities.
In October 2020, three co-founders rented a warehouse in downtown Topeka with the vision of buying liquidation merchandise by the truckload, storing it in the warehouse, and selling it via ecommerce platforms, as well as on their own website.
For Steve Mohan, founder and president of Mohan Construction, that was never a question. He always knew that building things would be a cornerstone activity in his life. What he didn’t always know was whether a company of his own would be one of the things he’d one day build.
A Lifetime of Service and Mechanical Craftsmanship
Nothing spurs resilience and innovation quite like hard times. There isn’t anything like an uncertain future or deferred dreams to make one appreciate the people in one’s life.
It has been just over a year since the world as we knew it came to a grinding halt…
Just a few hundred feet from the Townsite Complex, another major real estate project is pressing ahead.
“Try not to grow too fast, and try to learn in everything you do,” Ken Schmanke said. “One of two things is going to happen: either you’re going to be successful, or you’re going to learn from a failure.
The two-and-a-half-decade road leading up to that fortuitous TechEdge conference was full of hopes, challenges and wins—or in a word, fulfillment.
Avoiding conflict is a common behavior. It makes sense, of course. Conflict and arguments around the best path forward aren’t fun. No one wants to get into a disagreement. Or do they?
While Reliant Apparel may have had humble beginnings, operations began to pick up steam when Appelhanz was able to recruit someone whom he trusted greatly to help with the business growth: his sister.
It starts with the communication.
One of the most time-worn pieces of advice from successful business leaders is the suggestion to keep separation between one’s personal life and professional life. There are some, however, who can’t separate business from family even if they wanted to.
Four local businesses embrace change.
“For us, the important thing was to have the yard space, but also have space to grow,” Brent Boles continued. “We doubled our total acreage and we doubled our total office space.”
Enough was enough. Despite the sentimentality of a first office, and irrespective of all the manual upkeep labor poured into the space over the years, Dr. Ben Rutherford knew it was time for a change.
The leadership at Jeremiah Bullfrogs knew the move was a long time coming.
If asked to describe in one word the past year that Dr. Ekwensi Griffith and his medical practice, NewHealth Kansas, have experienced, one might land on ‘serendipitous.’
