Steele-Guiltner Tire Pros Turns Family Expertise Into Consumer Education
A family-owned and operated small business, Steele-Guiltner Tire Pros has served communities in Tennessee and Arkansas for more than 50 years.
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A family-owned and operated small business, Steele-Guiltner Tire Pros has served communities in Tennessee and Arkansas for more than 50 years.
The business carried on though, as Tedeschi’s wife Becky joined the business. Another location change and several years later, and Allied Flooring and Paint has transformed into an award-winning, majority woman-owned business.
Anthony Viviano owns Sterling Heights Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram, one of the largest dealerships in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles network, in Sterling Heights, Michigan
Would you spend an extra dollar on your next meal in order to feed a homeless person? At Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia, owner Mason Wartman encourages his customers to do just that. His community-friendly business model allows customers to pay it forward with pizza, one hot and fresh slice at a time. Before even turning 30, Wartman left his Wall Street job to start his own pizza shop in…read more →
“I decided to jump in with a bunch of great recipe ideas, some wonderful friends, two silver platters and a pretty good mission statement,” she says. “My mission statement was, and still is, based on using local, sustainable goods and leaving as little impact on the environment as possible.” That mission boils down to an even better catchphrase: big taste, little footprint.
As The Tire Barn shows, it’s also important to keep up with the community in order to make a difference whenever possible.
Kim and Judy Olson, who have owned The Mower Shop since 1986, know that the event wouldn’t be possible without the support of the community and the enthusiasm for the cause. “For a city of only 80,000 people, raising this amount of money is unheard of,” Kim says.
hen Justin South joined the military, he knew he’d be making a serious commitment, in both time and lifestyle. He understood what it all meant for his life, but he couldn’t have known what it would come to mean for his job and his employer.
As early as 7 a.m. on Tuesday, concerned customers and friends – often one and the same – began to filter in, looking for a way to help save the business.
It’s been almost 10 years since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast, but the memories and the lasting impacts don’t seem to have faded one bit.