From the pages of In Business magazine.
Most businesses do not survive the first five years of operation, so it’s with a great deal admiration that we present Dane County companies that have taken everything the economic fates can throw at them and survived to tell about it.
In 2017, the businesses listed in our annual anniversary toast are celebrating milestone anniversaries ending in a 0 or 5. They have not only beaten the competition, they have beaten the odds by constantly adjusting, adapting, and innovating.
That entrepreneurial spirit, which never leaves organizations that stand the test of time, helps explain why many of the companies presented here have have lasted so long and have a good chance to remain in business for a long time to come. As is the case throughout Wisconsin, many of them are family run businesses.
For this year’s anniversary feature, we have expanded our listing to include private sector employers that are not necessarily headquartered here but have a sizeable Dane County workforce nonetheless. They, too, are part of the fabric of this business community and deserve recognition for longevity.
The Office – 1978 and Now: Dressing in Code
1978 • Dressing for Success, Sort Of: In the late 1970s, work was serious business, even if office fashion trends would become a running joke. The ‘70s would become known as “The Tacky Decade,” with polyester suits as a leading example, and while “Mr. Polyester” would become a favorite put down, there was one thing even worse — the “Leisure Suit.” Had the office casual trend taken hold back then, we might have seen more of these abominations around the workplace. Thankfully, 1980s elegance was right around the corner, and slaves to real fashion reemerged.
2017 • Casual Monday Through Fridays: The ever-expanding waistlines of baby boomers could have something to do with it, but business-casual Fridays have taken over every day of the week. With the exception of professions such as law, finance, and banking, you don’t see many suits or ties anymore. For men, button down shirts and khaki slacks abound — some will mix and match, pairing blue jeans with a blazer — and Dockers remain the featured uniform component of cubicle inhabitants. Real big shots with nobody to answer to, and probably no outside appointments, have been known to show up to the office in a T-shirt and (gasp!) shorts.
The Office – 1978 and Now: No more Blowing Smoke
1978 • Gimme a Nail: Fourteen years after the U.S. Surgeon General’s first report on the adverse health effects of cigarette smoking, puffing away on “nails in the coffin” was still largely allowed in private businesses. It was a different story in public places, as the Civil Aeronautics Board, for example, began to require no-smoking sections on all commercial airline flights as early as 1973, and gradually states began to pass smoking restrictions in public buildings and other public places. In some cases, those public places included restaurants, even though they were privately owned. In 1983, the city of San Francisco became the first municipality to place private workplaces under smoking restrictions.
2017 • Take It Outside, Please: More communities would join San Francisco and enact workplace smoking restrictions, especially after a 1986 Surgeon General’s report that focused entirely on the health consequences of involuntary smoking and proclaimed secondhand smoke to be a cause of lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. By 1995, New York City had passed a comprehensive ordinance effectively banning smoking in most workplaces and seven years later amended its law to include restaurants and bars. Despite objections from restaurant and bar owners who wanted to set the smoking policy on their own properties, states and municipalities, including Wisconsin and Madison, would extend smoking bans to these establishments.
The Office – 1978 and Now: Women at Work
1978 • The Quiet Revolution: In the late 1970s, IB Cofounder Suzanne Beecher was part of what became known as “The Quiet Revolution,” the period where women made the transition from “pink collar jobs” as secretaries, teachers, nurses, and librarians to male-dominated professions such as business, law, and medicine. They went from working intermittently to supplement their family income to having career expectations of their own. Widespread access to the birth control pill allowed them to postpone pregnancy, giving them more freedom to pursue education and work.
2017 • Executive Elevation: The Quiet Revolution continues to this day, as the labor force participation rate among women is about 57% (as of October 2016), women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, and their ranks now exceed 40% at prominent business schools such as UW–Madison’s. While there is still much progress to be made in areas like the wage gap, 23 women now head Fortune 500 companies — from Mary T. Barra at General Motors to Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard. Viewed from the glass-is-half-empty perspective, that’s only about 5% of the nation’s largest corporations, but overall more business organizations are putting women in positions of leadership not only to improve their financial performance but also to drive organizational goals such as greater diversity and inclusion.
The Office – 1978 and Now: From Personal to Personnel Computers
1978 • Famous Last Words: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Those words were uttered by, of all people, a technology executive named Ken Olsen, a few months before IB’s first monthly edition hit the stands. Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., was probably responding to the introduction of the first personal computer, Steve Wozniak’s Apple II, which debuted at the first West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. While it looked like a TV set on top of a computer keyboard, with floppy disc drives in between, millions of units soon were seen in homes, offices, and schools. Mass-market consumer adoption of computers was born.
2017 • Phoning It In: While consumers still have a variety of computing devices to choose from, the dominance of the smartphone is undeniable. Thanks in large measure to Wozniak’s late business associate Steve Jobs, these revolutionary gadgets can hold your apps, allow you to web surf, consume video, snap photographs, engage in instant messaging and, taking a swipe at outdated technology, serve as mobile cash registers. We understand that some people even use them to place and receive phone calls!
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125 Years: JP Cullen
JP Cullen, a third-generation owner of the construction firm that bears his name and that of his great-grandfather, still comes to work five days a week. He is 91 years old and has been at the company since 1950.
“It keeps his mind active,” says David Cullen, chief executive officer of JP Cullen and — as the 62-year-old son of the second J.P. — part of the fourth generation to oversee a company that was born in 1892 and has survived both the Great Recession and the Great Depression. David and his older brother, Mark (64, and the firm’s chairman of the board) began working at JP Cullen in 1976 and took ownership from their father with their younger brother, Richard (59, and now vice president of field operations) in 1981.
“Our father never pushed us in this direction,” David Cullen says. “But we were interested in making the company more successful.”
Mission accomplished. Today, JP Cullen has offices in Madison, Janesville, and Milwaukee. The company specializes in new construction, additions, and renovations of office and university buildings, health care facilities, schools, and industrial plants. JP Cullen also takes on specialty work such as steel erection, masonry, carpentry, concrete, historical restoration, and equipment installation.
A fifth generation of Cullen family members also works for JP Cullen in a variety of roles, and they show interest in continuing the family business.
Getting to this point wasn’t easy, though.
In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Mark A. Cullen (son of the first J.P.) journeyed to Washington, D.C. to lobby for continued funds to keep a federal building project in Nebraska going after the U.S. government claimed it ran out of money to pay the firm and its contractors. He succeeded in securing additional funding, and the project continued to completion. (Post World War II, the majority of JP Cullen’s work has focused on the Midwest.)
When the Great Recession arrived in 2008 and 2009, JP Cullen had a “nice backlog of work,” David Cullen says. “But after that, we were challenged. And like other companies, we went through a period of having to downsize.”
JP Cullen is a 600-person firm, including more than 350 full-time employees throughout Madison and Dane County. “We might be smaller than a few years ago, but that’s okay because a business needs to be the right size in order to keep moving.”
In 2015, JP Cullen opened its newest location on the Capitol Square in Madison.
Today, as the firm’s industrial client base increases, JP Cullen is expanding its projects to other parts of the country — something that David Cullen expects will continue. “It’s been good to get out of our comfort zone,” he says.
To celebrate 125 in business, JP Cullen plans to host gatherings for its clients at all three of its Wisconsin offices in 2017. A book about the company’s history, originally published in conjunction with the firm’s 100th anniversary in 1992, also will be updated and made available to the public.
105 Years: Dale Carnegie Training
Terry Siebert began teaching at Dale Carnegie Training’s Madison-area location in the 1970s and never left. He eventually became president of the local branch in Madison, and in 1996 he and his wife, Kathy, purchased the franchise. Jon Walrath, who has been with Dale Carnegie Training for almost 20 years, is now responsible for growing the markets in Dane and Rock counties.
“What we do has a sense of timelessness,” Siebert says about the business programs offered by Dale Carnegie Training®. “We’re trying to change the world in a positive way, one person at a time.”
Headquartered in Hauppague, N.Y., the company has franchises in all 50 states and more than 90 counties, and in 2017 Dale Carnegie Training is celebrating 105 years of providing leadership, sales, and teamwork training and consulting services to companies of all sizes in multiple fields. Programs are offered in more than 25 languages, the company has implemented instruction at more than 400 Fortune 500 companies, and an estimated 8 million people have completed training over the decades.
Not bad for a company that began in October 1912, when Midwest native Dale Carnegie walked into a YMCA in Brooklyn, N.Y. and convinced the facility manager to let him teach a 90-minute public-speaking course. “That, essentially, was the beginning of his instruction and the foundation of the organization,” Siebert says.
Collectively, Dale Carnegie Training emphasizes practical principles and processes by designing programs that offer employees the knowledge, skills, and practices they need to add value to their businesses.
Madison has been home to a Dale Carnegie Training center since the 1950s and is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.
Its reach extends as far north as La Crosse, as far south as Beloit, and as far west as Platteville. The local franchise also has received multiple In Business Executive Choice Awards in the “Management Training Company” category, and it is recognized as one of Dale Carnegie Training’s top business development centers in the world for its size.
“Twenty or 30 years ago, 90% of our business was people enrolling in our programs because they were sent to us by their companies,” Siebert says. “Now they come to us looking for tailored programs, which is a challenge we’ve been able to meet.”
Within the past five years, Dale Carnegie’s national staff has made great strides in boosting digital training offerings, as well.
In 2012, Dale Carnegie Training celebrated its 100th anniversary by commissioning an extensive study of employee engagement in the United States. The study revealed vital connections between workplace success and enthusiasm, empowerment, inspiration, and confidence.
No local anniversary celebrations are planned in 2017 — Siebert says Dale Carnegie Training celebrated big for its 100th anniversary in Hawaii — and it will be business as usual in Madison, which means more area business professionals will continue to enjoy greater success.
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65 Years: The Bruce Company
In the early 1950s, when 12-year-old Leland Bruce needed to earn money for a trip to the National Boy Scout Jamboree in California, he borrowed a tractor and began plowing his neighbors’ gardens.
Not only did Bruce head west to the Jamboree, but when he came back he started a landscape and garden business. Sixty-five years later, The Bruce Company on Parmenter Street in Middleton is still thriving.
“Isn’t that an impressive story?” says Seth Nicholson, president and chief operating officer of Wisconsin’s largest landscape contractor, which now employs an average of 350 full-time and part-time employees and boasts a retail garden center that is among the largest of its kind in the country. “We like to tell that story to people, and we emphasize it with our employees so they understand where this company came from and the opportunities that hard work represents.”
Today, Bruce is retired from the landscaping business, but he still meets regularly with Bliss and Seth Nicholson — the father and son who purchased The Bruce Company. Bliss, 69, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer, while Seth, 40, is president and chief operating officer.
“I grew up in the business, with my father being both a laborer and an executive,” Seth says, recalling that as a little boy he rode in the trucks his dad operated after joining The Bruce Company in 1972. “I was intrigued by the business and enjoyed working in it, but could not have guessed it would become my career path.”
After spending a few post-college years in Montana as a ski/snowboard instructor and hiking guide, Seth returned to Madison and The Bruce Company, following in his father’s footsteps by working several of the same jobs Bliss did. Before long, the Nicholsons and other key managers were acquiring more of the ownership in the business until the Nicholson family ultimately acquired the company.
The Bruce Company offers complete design/build landscape services for commercial and residential properties, including irrigation and water feature services, assuring their quality with nearly 600 acres of locally grown nursery stock. Their landscape management department provides year round services for many of Dane County’s largest commercial businesses.
Bruce added many of those categories over the years in an effort to diversify the company and keep it growing at times when the economy slowed down.
Another key to the company’s longevity is a trio of strategic goals, each visualized as a point on a large triangle with The Bruce Company logo in the middle. Each goal — exceptional customer care, a great environment for employees, and ongoing financial stability — is given equal weight when making operational and other internal decisions.
“As complex and diverse as our business is, these goals keep us strategically aligned and linked to the customer both now and over time,” Seth says. “It reminds us why we’re here and how we do what we do.”
The Bruce Company has plans to celebrate its 65th anniversary but has not finalized details.
55 Years: Ryan Brothers Ambulance
In 1962, brothers Pat and Paul Ryan founded Madison’s oldest ambulance service, operating out of a converted motorcycle shop on Park Street. The first few years, Pat and Paul worked all the shifts, 24/7, taking turns driving the ambulance home at night for night calls.
At that time, the Madison Fire Department did not operate an ambulance, and the 911 System was not yet in place. Ryan Brothers Ambulance (RBA) built a reliable reputation with local nursing facilities and hospitals. Their commitment to patient service, facility relationships, and details established RBA as the area’s most trusted ambulance service. Pat and Paul’s motto — “Treat every patient as if they were family” — has continued to be integral to the company’s mission statement.
In 1994, Ryan Brothers Ambulance itself went on life support after the unexpected heart attack and death of Paul Ryan. Erin Ryan, now 45 years old, joined his dad at RBA, followed by Patrick Ryan (now 48) in 1997.
“My brother and I were pursuing other careers until we thought dad might need some help from us without Paul,” Erin says. “I credit him with letting us make this decision; this does not always happen in a family business. In 2004, we made a commitment to make this our career, to buy out our dad, and see where we could take Ryan Brothers, remembering the values that made it successful.”
EMS has evolved, and the RBA business model has evolved along with it. Expanding from that crucial location on Park Street, RBA now has six other locations throughout southern Wisconsin. A new administrative/training building opened in 2015.
Paramedic and 911 services also were expanded, serving Maple Bluff, Fort Atkinson, and the Town of Deerfield. Investments in specialized equipment, ambulances, and skilled employees were made. Recent technology innovations have been critical to the company’s commitment to excellence by improving response times and positively impacting their employees’ experience.
Patrick and Erin are proud of their knowledgeable staff and the feedback they frequently receive in the form of such comments as, “Your staff was so compassionate and made me feel at ease during a difficult time.”
RBA led the development of community paramedicine in Wisconsin, a new EMS strategy to help people stay out of the hospitals and in their homes when possible. RBA’s three community paramedics are currently volunteering at local community clinics, with several additional staff in training.
Patrick and Erin reflect on how RBA began with the vision of two founders and are grateful for the opportunity to provide an important service, leading a dedicated team of more than 100 employees. As members of the UW Family Business Center, they have learned that owning a family business has its own unique dynamics.
“We are fortunate that our dad remains active in the company he helped found 55 years ago,” says Erin. Pat, 76, comes to work Mondays and Wednesdays. “He shares an office with me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
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50 Years: Hellenbrand Inc.
No matter how you look at it, a half-century is a long time. But that’s how long the water treatment systems provider Hellenbrand Inc. has been in business.
At one point, all seven sons and daughters of company founders Jim and Flo Hellenbrand were involved with the Waunakee-based business that offers residential, commercial, and industrial water treatment services, and they’ve managed to keep it all in the family since 1967. Back then, five Hellenbrand children were under the age of 10.
“It wasn’t easy,” admits Jeff Hellenbrand, the oldest sibling, who decided in the early ’90s to ask his parents about a succession plan; he was told the business would be divided equally seven ways. “I was wise enough to know that wasn’t going to work. We would always be battling if we were equal partners.”
In 1994, Jeff and his younger brothers, Paul and Terry, purchased Hellenbrand from their parents, and Jeff — with an associate degree in business and accounting and the most experience working for Hellenbrand Inc. — became president. In 2008 Jeff and Paul bought out Terry, who now works in an unrelated field.
Sister Jodi also is involved in the business, and brothers Kevin and Jay operate their own successful water treatment dealerships in Mukwonago and Ventura, Calif., respectively.
In 2010, Pat Ford — a former assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team who oversaw recruiting — joined the ownership group.
“If he could go out and get the best athletes to come to Wisconsin and play hockey, we knew he could help us recruit more dealers,” Jeff Hellenbrand says. “We made the strategic decision that we would like to have him as part of our business.”
Hellenbrand’s business began with Jim Hellenbrand selling to local plumbing contractors and other local connections. Eventually, he broadened his circle of influence beyond Dane County and the new housing market to include independent water treatment dealers throughout the Midwest.
Today, Hellenbrand’s products are marketed to the plumbing/wholesale market under the brand name Proficient H20 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, and under the Hellenbrand name to professional water treatment dealers in more than 40 other states and Canada. All told, the company boasts a network of about 150 dealers.
Along the way, Hellenbrand became an industry leader. The company patented a chemical-free iron filtration system, dubbed the Iron Curtain™, in 1992, and the Iron Curtain IC 2.0 — a more efficient and chemical-free way to remove iron — arrived in 2007. In 2014, the company introduced the high-efficiency EcoMax technology, which uses 50% less salt and water compared to most systems.
Jim Hellenbrand passed away in 2012 at age 77, and Flo Hellenbrand remains very active in Waunakee. At this point in the Hellenbrand history, the company has 77 employees, which the Hellenbrands consider their most important asset.
Fiftieth anniversary plans are in the works.
20 Years: Adesys IT Specialists
In his youth, Jason Adamany — founder and president of Adesys in Fitchburg — knew what he wanted to be when he grew up.
“I wrote a business plan for the business we have today back when I was in junior high,” says Adamany, 42, who moved to Madison from Prairie du Chien in 1993 to attend the University of Wisconsin School of Business and earn a degree in information systems.
While at UW, he also worked for BellSouth Corp. Four years later, in 1997, Adamany set out on his own to turn that business plan he wrote as a kid into reality.
Adamany’s first clients were movie theaters, courtesy of his father, who owned the former Star Cinemas in Wisconsin and Iowa (now owned by AMC). He installed and maintained computers at his dad’s theaters and other similar facilities, eventually acquiring a small New York-based company specializing in theater software.
Adesys operated out of the garage in the Fitchburg home Adamany purchased in 1999 and still lives in today with his wife and two children. During those early days, he partnered with a Denver software programmer to help about 40 cinema owners navigate the Y2K software challenges at the turn of the millennium. In 2002, he sold that segment of the business to focus on broadening his clientele, which now includes construction firms, financial services companies, health care facilities, hospitality businesses, manufacturing spaces, retail stores, and general offices. Most of the company’s clients are small and medium-sized businesses based in Dane County or southern Wisconsin.
Adamany’s younger brother, Tim, joined the company upon graduating from UW-Whitewater in 2001 and now serves as the web director for Adesys.
By 2005, Adesys moved into its first office on the corner of Seminole Highway and McKee Road. Regional recognition followed.
Adesys was awarded the 2011 Dane County Small Business of the Year Award, recognizing businesses for their professional accomplishments, employee benefits, and community involvement. The In Business Executive Choice Awards, meanwhile, have named Adesys one of the best “Local IT Consultant” and “Local Website Services” companies for six consecutive years.
Since 1997, Adesys and its staff have been involved in diverse charitable organizations, including the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the All-City Championship Swim Meet, and the Mt. Zion Academic Learning Center.
In 2014, Adesys relocated to a larger office space at the corner of Fish Hatchery Road and McKee Road. (The building is the former Tony Roma’s restaurant, but — as the Adesys website notes — “we did remove the bar.”) The new location doubled the amount of available space, and Adesys now employs 22 people.
Plans for the company’s 20th anniversary are still in the works, but Adamany confirms he will host an open house for clients this summer with live music and a pig roast.
“This feels like a milestone,” he says. “It’s amazing how fast 20 years have gone by.”
20 Years: Fearing’s Audio Video Security
Doug Fearing’s father and grandfather were in the television repair business, and for awhile it looked like his career was headed in that direction, too.
“When I was in high school, my dad told me I would be a repair technician, that I was his ticket to retirement, and that was fine with me,” Fearing says.
When Doug’s dad died at age 50, Fearing went to work as a repairman at BJ’s TV & Appliance in Portage, where he built up a client base of emerging Wisconsin Dells hotels.
“We grew along with the resorts,” Fearing says, adding that his first big job was the installation of a TV and satellite system at the Best Western Ambassador Inn & Suites. “As they got bigger, I started to learn about all of the new technology available.”
In 1997, Fearing bought out the satellite TV and commercial segments of the business from BJ’s TV & Appliance and opened Fearing’s Satellite and Sound in a 600-square-foot facility in Portage. Back then, the primary business consisted of installing satellite, residential custom sound, business video surveillance, and background music systems. Other early clients were (and remain) the Wilderness and Kalahari resorts; current clients include Marcus Theatres.
Fearing’s eventually expanded to a larger facility and added new product lines and services. In 2003, it was named Columbia County’s Small Business of the Year.
“We’ve always been a company that has to keep advancing,” says Fearing. “We didn’t want to sit on our laurels.”
Fearing’s added a sales office in Madison in 2005. In 2009, they relocated the entire operation to a 6,000-square-foot facility on Walsh Road in Madison. But then the recession hit, and Fearing says the business “barely survived.” Sales dropped to half of what they were in 2008, clients cut spending, Fearing’s laid off employees, and Fearing and his wife, Lois (the company’s chief financial officer), stopped taking a regular paycheck.
By 2013, though, the industry began to turn around. In 2015, Fearing’s expanded into the Milwaukee market with an office in Brookfield — the same year it was recognized as one of 10 Dane County Small Businesses of the Year — and Fearing’s has experienced record sales every year since.
Today, the company employs 31 people, who in 2015 collectively helped develop the company’s mission statement: “To create great customer experiences through our technology, innovation, and unrivaled teamwork.” Fearing’s also is a proud supporter of the nonprofit Schools for Haiti program.
Although Doug and Lois’ daughter is the company’s purchasing manager, and she is married to a project manager, no succession plan or exit strategy has been developed, according to Fearing, who is 60 years old.
No plans have been announced for the company’s 20th anniversary, either, although Fearing says this is too major of a milestone to pass up.
“The part of this business that makes it exciting is the technology,” Fearing says. “It’s always changing. Who would have thought 20 years ago that we’d be operating security systems from a cellphone?”
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Dane County-area companies celebrating milestone anniversaries in 2017
160 Years
Upper Iowa University
155 years
Lakeland University
130 years
Bank of Deerfield
Cottingham & Butler Insurance Services Inc.
125 years
Bank Mutual
JP Cullen
Stroud Willink & Howard LLC
Wisconsin Bankers Association (WBA)
120 years
Chase Lumber
First Supply LLC
Kraus-Anderson Construction Co.
115 years
Ziegler Wealth Management
110 years
Eppstein Uhen Architects
Reilly, Penner & Benton LLP
105 years
Dale Carnegie Training
Madison College
Perkins Coie LLP
St. Mary’s Hospital (now SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison)
The East Side Club
100 years
Dane Manufacturing
Metcalfe’s Market
The Capital Times
Wisconsin Public Radio
95 years
BWBR
DMB Community Bank
Edward Jones (Sun Prairie)
Gunderson Funeral & Cremation Care
United Way of Dane County
Wells Print & Digital Services
90 years
American Family Insurance
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Edgewood College
Flad Architects
Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.
The OrpheumTheater
Ward-Brodt Music
85 years
Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX)
80 years
Cardinal Stritch University
Schmidt’s Auto Inc.
Sullivan designBUILD
Waddell & Reed Financial Advisors
Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson S.C.
75 years
Madison Community Foundation
70 years
Alside
Central Storage & Warehouse Co.
Kavanaugh’s Esquire Club
Madison Area Builders Association (MABA)
Stoughton Chamber of Commerce
Temperature Systems Inc.
65 years
Kiesling Associates LLP
Middleton Chamber of Commerce
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Park Printing Solutions
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Stephan & Brady Inc.
Stevens Construction Corp.
Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired
The Bruce Co. of Wisconsin Inc.
60 years
Duraform LTD
Gilson
Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
The QTI Group
55 years
Aljan Co.
American Fence Co.
Associated Dentists
Bavaria Sausage Inc.
Benjamin Plumbing Inc.
Burnie’s Rock Shop Inc.
BWZ Architects
Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Co. Inc.
Ideal Printing LLC
KForce
Perkins Oil Co. Inc.
Polk Diesel & Machine Inc.
Ryan Brothers Ambulance
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Anniversary companies cont.
50 years
Design Concepts Inc.
Great Lakes Higher Education Corp. & Affiliates
Hellenbrand Inc.
World Dairy Expo
Yahara Hills Golf Course
45 years
Art’s Electric & Heating Inc.
Berntsen International Inc.
Dane County Farmers’ Market
Design Coalition Inc.
Environment Control of Wisconsin Inc.
Executive Investors
Faith Technologies
Farley’s House of Pianos LLC
Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau
MCD Inc.
Micron Business Products
Plastic Ingenuity Corp.
RSVP of Dane County
RZ & Co.
Tellurian Inc.
Terra Engineering & Construction
WEA Member Benefits
40 years
AB Media Inc.
Ascentives Inc.
Canopy Center Inc.
Century 21 Affiliated
Dave Jones Inc.
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc. (DAIS)
Fristam Pumps Inc.
Full Compass Systems
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K & M Concrete Inc.
Ken’s Automotive
Madison Development Corp.
Matrix Development LLC
Matson & Associates Inc./Real Living
Monona Plumbing and Fire Protection Inc.
NAMI of Wisconsin
O’Brien Trucking Inc.
Omnipress
Paul Reilly Co.
Pilgrim Cleaners Inc.
Snyder & Associates Inc.
The Weidt Group
Therma-Stor LLC
Total Awards & Promotions Inc./AwardsMall.com
Wisconsin Independent Business (WIB)
Wisconsin Management Co.
Zander Solutions
35 years
ABC Supply Co. Inc.
Access Community Health Centers
Adams Design Construction LTD
AMS
CMS of Madison Inc.
Creative Marketing Specialists
Del Enterprises
Krekeler Strother S.C.
Madison Computer Works
MEMBERS Capital Advisors Inc.
Midwest Trailer Sales
OneTouchPoint
Peterson, Johnson & Murray S.C.
Provideo & Film Inc.
Skyline Services Inc.
Sport Products MFG LTD
The TASCON Group
30 years
ABR Employment Services and Kinsa Group
Agri-Nutrition Consulting LLC
Badger Graphic Systems
Barrymore Theatre
BioForward Inc.
C.M. Morris Group Inc.
Capilla Madison
Cat Care Clinic
Discover Mediaworks
DSI Real Estate Group Inc.
Fleming Development Inc.
Gaskell Engineering
Glacier Landscape
Habitat for Humanity of Dane County Inc.
Harbour Investments Inc.
J & K Security Solutions
Kendrick Laboratories Inc.
Kitson Marketing Inc.
Kittleson Landscaping
Laboratory Associated Business Ltd.
Madison Area Business Consultants (MABC)
Oakbrook Corp.
Resource Engineering Associates Inc.
Russell Consulting Inc.
Ryan Signs Inc.
ServiceMaster Building Maintenance
Slack Attack Communications
Sprint Print Inc.
T.Q. Diamonds
Telemark Blue Sky Music
The Madison Enterprise Center
Welton Enterprises Inc.
The Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. (WWBIC)
25 years
American Laser Products Inc.
Amigo Construction LLC
Associated Housewrights
AVID Ratings Co.
Capitol Consultants
Chalmers Jewelers
Genome International Corp.
Inkworks Inc.
Kahler Slater Inc.
KEE Architecture Inc.
National Mustard Museum
Pierce Engineers Inc.
Premier Builders Inc.
R.B.’s Printing Inc.
Signs by Tomorrow
Supreme Structures Inc.
T.C. Carpet Care
Thermal Spray Technologies Inc.
TJK Design Build Inc.
Universal Home Protection LLC
Yahara Software LLC
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Anniversary companies cont.
20 years
Adesys
Affiliated Dentists
Badger GraniteWerks Inc.
Bronfman E.L. Rothschild
Bruker AXS Inc.
Capital Lock Inc.
Concordia University of Wisconsin
Convergent Science
CPU Solutions
Distillery
Duren Law Office LLC
Fearing’s Audio-Video-Security
Fiskars Brands Inc.
Great Wolf Resorts Inc.
Greyhound Professional Cleaning and Floor Care LLC
Human Head Studios
Kneaded Relief Day Spa & Wellness
Landscape Architecture LLC
Leonardo Academy
Madison Country Day School
Magic Wash Carwash
Main Street Industries
MIG Commercial Real Estate
Milestone Senior Living
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
Neller Masonry Inc.
nPoint Inc.
Olson Toon Landscaping Inc.
Porter & Sack CPAs S.C.
RotoWire
SARA Investment Real Estate LLC
Sienna Crest Assisted Living Inc.
Symphony Corp.
United Rentals
Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation
15 years
Arch-Aide LLC Architects
Badger Contractors Rental & Supply
BellBrook Labs LLC
Chandra Technologies Inc.
CobraHead
Complete Mobile Dentistry
Dimension IV–Madison LLC
Energy Performance Lighting
First Business Trust & Investments
Full Spectrum Solar
Ideal Builders Inc.
Johnson Insurance Services LLC
MEGA Rentals Inc.
PDP Basketball Academy LLC
Primavera Cleaning Service
Quality Power Solutions (QPS)
Scarab Genomics
Specialty Services of Wisconsin Inc.
The Law Center S.C.
The Pink Poodle Inc.
Wisconsin Sports Network
The Capitol Group LLC
10 years
ActionCOACH Business Coaching
American Family Children’s Hospital
BB Design LLC
BottleWise
Centrose
Cha Cha Tea LLC
Crema Café
FluGen Inc.
Frankel ADR
Fromagination
Hardin Design & Development Inc.
Holiday Inn Madison at The American Center
JLA Architects
Madison Geeks
Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP)
Paws & Claws Mobile Veterinary Service Inc.
Professional Engineering LLC
Settlers bank
Smart Dental LLC
Tailored Living
TEC Mailing Solutions LLC
TheoryThree Interactive LLC
Wisconsin Fertility Institute
Yahara Bay Distillers
The Preferred Realty Group
5 years
A Dead Anchor Tattoo & Body Piercing
ABODO
Ager Chiropractic Wellness Center
AtlantisValley Foods LLC
AVID Risk Solutions Inc.
Calls on Call
CODAworx
DreamBank
Ebullient Cooling
Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness
Gio’s Garden
HouseReward.com
Intuitive Biosciences Inc.
Ionic
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Pegusus Sustainability Solutions Inc.
Red Square Flowers
Roast Public House
Sunseed Research LLC
Wisconsin Business Alliance
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