Business View-Oct 2023

181 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 Thirty-one years ago, C&S Supply became a member of True Value Hardware. It is also a major supplier of work clothing, nursing uniforms, footwear, farm, horse tack, hardware items, and power equipment sales and service. From Carhartt, Dickies, Key, Georgia Boot, and Stihl to Cub Cadet, Weber, and many others, you name it, C&S has it. Employee-owned for the past 16 years, its principal managers are Robin Schendel, Corey Kapaun, Erin Selle, and Megan Thrun. Having an ESOP (or employee stock ownership plan) is extremely beneficial to the company and its approximately 40 employees (some full-time, some part-time, from teenagers to retirees). According to Corey, having an ESOP paradigm for the company just makes more sense. It helps keep things local, and it means the company won’t be taken over by some other outsider corporation or a big-box store, as he points out. C&S SUPPLY Our Small Engine Repair Shop Photo: Karen Werling