February 2017 | Business View Magazine

50 51 Dart Plastering, Inc. has been serving you in Green Bay, Appleton, and Sturgeon Bay for over 25 years. You can count on our professionals to complete your job in a timely fashion and within your budget. PHONE: 920-866-3930 EMAIL: dartplastering@aol.com Get top Quality plasterinG and remodelinG services n Plaster n Sheet rocking n Stucco EIFS Exterior Installation n Decorative Venetian Finishing Meulemans Brothers Electric, LLC is owned and operated by State Certified Master Electri- cians, Jeremy Meulemans and Jody Meulemans. Located in DePere, Wisconsin with services extending throughout all of Northeast & Central Wisconsin. 5365 Moonlite Drive, De Pere, WI 54115 (920) 246-4365 n (920) 213-6613 SPECIALIZING IN COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL SERVICES INCLUDING: n Interior & Exterior Lighting n Remodel & New Construction n LED Energy Efficient Lighting n Electrical Design-Build n Wiring Repairs n Trouble-shooting n Service Upgrades n Lighting Upgrades FOR MORE INFORMATION: meulemansbrothers@yahoo.com FREE ESTIMATES & CONSTRUCTION BIDS DeLeers Construction, Inc. Jim’s turn to run the company came in 2010. “My brother, Paul and I, purchased the com- pany from my dad and his brother who was a fifty-percent partner. At that time, the business was located in Bellevue, which is a small sub- urb of Green Bay,” he relates. “In 2011, we relo- cated the business to De Pere. After purchasing the business, we continued to focus on the high-end luxury homes and also on renova- tions. And we have a much larger focus on the commercial spectrum.We’re doing multi-family housing projects, light industrial projects, all kinds of clinics, office space, and retail space. And we have a service division which consists of a crew of six service techs who take care of small projects.” Another way in which the third generation has chosen to expand the business is in the area of ‘self-performing’- completing critical construction components themselves, rath- er than sub-contracting them out. “Each year, we’ve been choosing to self-perform a little bit more work,” says Jim. “And one of the reasons is the industry is busy, right now, and it allows us to better control the overall project schedule. So, as long as we can perform efficiently, it’s another source of revenue and profit.We always self-per- form all our finished carpentry projects; we have an internal paint shop and we have external paint crews to self-perform our painting; we do a lot of our sidings, soffits, fascia, and window install; we do quite a bit of our wood framing; steel stud framing.We have our own cabinet shop, so we’re able to self-perform commercial plastic laminate casework, custom wood veneers, and custom kitchens. Right now, we only self-perform a little bit of concrete, but we’re going to start self-performing more of our concrete work in the future.” Today, DeLeers has a total of 115 employees who do most of their work within a 150-mile radius of Green Bay. “But we also travel to other states,” says Jim. “Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota; we’ve even gotten to Ohio, on oc- casion.” Regarding its marketing efforts, he says that being very involved