Business View Magazine | December 2020

37 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 CONEWAGO MANUFACTUR ING LLC the company still maintains a tight-knit culture, investing heavily in its workers to ensure the best possible product quality. Delivering exceptional results that drive repeat business is at the heart of all the company does. “Our core values are commitment, a can-do attitude, and creativity,” says Smith. “By living and embodying these three factors, we generate up to seventy- five percent of our revenue from repeat business.” Prendergast elaborates further on why clients keep coming back, “From top to bottom, everybody has the same passion – making sure our customers are taken care of. We share our customers’ passion for their projects, which brings many of our customers back to us because they know that if they get excited about a project, we get excited alongside them. It’s a hand in hand thing.” Operations- wise, Prendergast adds a bold statement about Conewago Manufacturing’s quality, “We offer probably the best envelope of insulation in precast compared to some of our competitors.” “Conewago Manufacturing’s history is best described as a natural progression or evolution,” says Eric Smith, Director of Sales at Conewago Manufacturing, LLC. Its parent company, Conewago Enterprises, Inc., was founded in 1956 by Donald B. Smith, Sr. as a general contracting business. At the time, the company focused on CMU construction, but as this trend changed, they decided to change with the times, switching to concrete by setting up a precast division. That division, initially set up to supply Conewago Enterprises, eventually became Conewago Manufacturing, Inc. in 2017– a standalone company that supplies both the mother company and the broader general contracting market. Smith reports, “As a separate entity, Conewago Manufacturing focuses on precast products, an important step in ensuring each business grows in its own right while making strategic investments that do not dilute other parts of the business. Conewago Manufacturing has around 120 employees based at our Hanover, PA headquarters.” As a family-owned business,