Jeanette Prenger and her team excel at finding the right people for the right job. Entrepreneur Jeanette Hernandez Prenger Company Information ECCO Select 1301 Oak St., Ste. 400 Kansas City, MO 64106 (816) 960-3800 www.eccoselect.com 1750 Tysons Boulevard, Ste. 1500 McLean, VA 22102 Type of Business Consulting services Year Founded 1995 Employees 33, plus more than 200 consultants nationwide Keys to success “Learn from your mistakes, hire people smarter than yourself and make…
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…
Learn how one KC company has expanded an overlooked niche into a business serving dozens of industries. Iodine is everywhere, and much of it passes through a small Kansas City company on its way to a multitude of uses worldwide. For 10 years, IodiTech has been a major U.S. dealer in iodine, a sea-born mineral with derivative uses ranging from cleaning solutions to medicine to heat-resistant plastics found in lawn…
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T2 creates immersive experiences that audiences can’t forget — and can’t help sharing. ENTREPRENEUR Teri Rogers COMPANY INFORMATION T2 Studios 1906 Wyandotte Kansas City, MO 64108 (816) 471-6554 www.t2.tv TYPE OF BUSINESS Hybrid digital production company YEAR FOUNDED 1989 EMPLOYEES 30 KEYS TO SUCCESS “I think you have to be open to any and all possibilities for your talents. And I think you have to be fearless. And you have to…
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…