Business View Magazine | January 2020

20 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 TOP TEN effective economic development strategy. Not only does it help us attract businesses, because we can say it’s such a great place to work, but this guiding light of creating a great place that people want to be, really helps to drive the economy and gives the City a strong foundation for deploying some of our more progressive green and sustainable strategies.” Vice President of Sales, Lynn Hardin Quality Steel Corp “Our number one capital investment over the past several years has been our workforce and we believe that happy employees will help make a better product.” Andrew Houlberg, CEO Natrol LLC “We create products that may help people live longer, healthier lives. It’s a whole lot more fun than selling things that hurt people. We have fun doing what we do and when we do that, we really succeed.” Scott Andrew, President/CEO Retail Service Systems, Inc “If we could identify and empower ‘Rugged Entrepreneurs’ (teachable and coachable with a great work ethic but don’t like to have a rigid structure or a boss) and focus on their success, we knew we would have a home run.” Ben Huigenbos, President BOS Innovations “Our best business always comes from the relationships we have with our current customer base, either from retaining and continuing to grow with our customers, or by referral.” Mark LeDoux, CEO Natural Alternatives “The consumer, with access to the internet, access to information and research, is becoming much more knowledgeable, much more inquisitive, and justifiably skeptical. So, they’re doing their homework before they make purchase decisions. And it’s incumbent for us to continue to make those appropriate investments in answering the questions that consumers have: Is this product beneficial for me and my family? What will it do? How does it work? And how can you make sure that the sources from which you bring this product to market remain sustainable for the globe that we live on?” Joe Derhake, CEO Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. “We’ve been on several Fastest Growing lists for Inc. 5000, there are only about 100 firms that have ever been on it as long as us. But who cares if we grow 50% or 5% or not at all. Lets just be proud of how we get there.”