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Ripple Glass: Passion for recycling fuels expansion

If you use food and beverage products that come in glass, “Ben” hopes you will help feed the big purple bins throughout the Kansas City area. “Ben” is the purple winged bottle mascot of Ripple Glass, the area’s recycler of glass products with purple containers across the metro and beyond. In 2017, the company celebrated recycling its 1 billionth bottle, and next year, Ripple will mark its 10th anniversary. “Our…
renner supply garage door

Renner Supply Garage Door: Bad weather opened market for supplier

Denise Dahms’ family has been selling garage doors for more than 60 years, but the family business barely survived its first year. In 1955, Gene Renner, Denise’s dad, was selling garage doors—among other things—for a local lumber company. A year later, he started R&R Garage Door with his father, Elmer Renner, but the company struggled. Gene Renner wanted out of the business, but an F5 tornado in May 1957 changed…
chicken n pickle

Chicken N Pickle: Entrepreneurs plan to expand with unique concept

Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports in the nation, so it should be no surprise that Chicken N Pickle has expansion plans of its own. The owners of the North Kansas City hotspot broke ground on their second location in May in Wichita, but the expansion won’t stop there. Kellen Mumm, vice president of business development, said the company could have as many as 10 locations within three years….
senior services

Senior services boom: Wide range of businesses cater to aging population

The numbers are staggering—but so, too, are the opportunities. Baby boomers—Americans aged 55 to 75—number anywhere from 75 million to 83 million in the U.S. Generation X, which is the next younger group at ages 38 to 53, includes 61 million to 65 million people. In the next few years, most of them will be seniors or caring for seniors. Businesses that are ready and waiting to cater to the…
Gen Z blue valley

Get to know Gen Z, the latest generation to join the workforce

Gen Z is the demographic cohort after the millennials (aka Generation Y). There is not a hard start or stop date to define the cohort known as Generation Z, but many demographers use birth years from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s. This cohort is currently entering the workforce and will impact the way we conduct business for decades to come. RELATED: Future entrepreneurs: Area programs prepare high school students to take…
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