equipment manufacturing thrives given the county’s central location, while two Tyson Foods facilities anchor food processing. Technology companies include 60-year-old DCI providing banking application support, SDI/MAPS a firm supplying McDonald’s point-of-sale systems, and IdeaTek, which grew from local startup to broadband deployment leader. “We have a whole entrepreneurship entity here in Reno County called StartUp Hutch, and they support entrepreneurs and help them with business planning,”Teufel says.“Over the last decade, we have seen about 70 new businesses start up here that you would consider small mom and pop companies, and many of those located on the Main Street corridor.” Downtown revitalization centers on major projects like the Meyer Landmark renovation. “One of those revitalization projects I would love to point to is a Hutch Chamber, Reno County, and State officials recently joined representatives from APAC Shears to break ground on a new regional headquarters in Reno County Photo Credit: Hutchinson / Reno County Chamber of Commerce 56 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 09
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