Video: Sam Featherston on manufacturing and acquisitions

Sam Featherston left his job of many years in management in plastics manufacturing and took a new role of ownership. He and a team of other investors from the industry have bought several companies now and have diversified beyond just plastics. In this video, Featherston shares about what went in to buying the first company [...]

Inter-Motion co-founders navigate processes of business creation and sale

In 1984, Ronny Roberts and Jim Zecha started Inter-Motion in Kearney and got to work dismantling, rebuilding and retrofitting old machinery. After years of reworking various machines, the two founders sold Inter-Motion in 2009, and watched the company begin its next chapter under new ownership. Prior to co-founding Inter-Motion, Roberts and Zecha worked in Kearney [...]

Rief Design finds niche in custom manufacturing

After graduating from the University of Nebraska’s mechanized systems program in 2008, Adam Rief decided to come back to his hometown of Bancroft and expand upon his own business with his father, Steve. Rief Design and Manufacturing, LLC was originally founded in January 2006 by the father-and-son duo. The small, family-owned business specializes in custom [...]

Tomac Bicycles Keeps Wheels of Enterprise Churning Nonstop

Tomac Mountain Bikes promises its customers “hardcore, quality products.” When one takes a glance at the company’s inner workings, it’s obvious those same descriptors apply to the man behind the brand, Joel Smith. Here’s a breakdown of a typical workday in his own words: “We work the sales side of things early in the morning, because we [...]