Ecto Development Corporation helps the world’s biggest companies turn their animal health ideas into real products for pets and livestock. Entrepreneur John E. Rose Company Information Ecto Development Corporation 850 N.W. Pink Hill Road Blue Springs, MO 64015 (816) 220-2015 www.ectodev.com Type of Business Contract research and development for animal health and pesticide products Year Founded 1993 Employees 10 Keys to success “You have to make your customers want to come back. We get repeat business…
Elisabeth DeCoursey and Scott Martens have revitalized a 119-year-old Kansas City company. There are few small businesses with histories as long as Kansas City Testing & Engineering’s.The owners, Elisabeth DeCoursey and Scott Martens, bought the business in 2009, when it was still part of Tetra Tech, a national consulting, construction and engineering firm. Tetra Tech was planning to shut down the unit—until the married couple offered to take it over.One…