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This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
Today, we complete our showcase of more top entrepreneurial minds as we finish highlighting our Top Businesses from 2014.
TruAudio in St. George manufactures home theater and architectural speakers and other electronics sold through a network of custom installers. These products vary from contractor-grade speakers all the way to the high-end B23, a complex home theater speaker system. They specialize in residential, commercial and industrial installs. Company president Bryan Garner says their dealer base includes contacts in all 50 states and 70 countries.
What's more exciting than having your business be so successful it turns into a franchise? That's the story for Wood Creations in West Haven. Wood Creations is a wood craft store specializing in take and make crafts, shelves, picture frames, vinyl and craft supplies. Since their launch four years ago, they've grown to include six locations in three states with a seventh coming this year.
While Idaho is most known for the Russet Burbank, thanks to brothers Robert and Jerry Tominaga and Rod Lake, Idaho is also gaining reputation for specialty potatoes known as heirloom fingerlings, sold through their company, SouthWind Farms in Heyburn. These are the narrow finger-shaped kind of potatoes used in gourmet dishes in many fine restaurants.
Weston Serrano, owner of Westroc Trucking and Oilfield Service in Vernal, was just 17 when he started into the drilling business. A few years later Weston bought his own truck and started a trucking company. Today Westroc is a partnership between Weston and his two daughters and son-in-law, an extensive trucking operation with specialized equipment used to service the oilfields.
Webb Landscape, headquartered in Bellevue, Idaho, offers landscape design and construction, a nursery to grow plantar material and maintenance on their designs. Mark Palmer is the CEO of this growing company, which is now employee owned. Webb Landscape is not the oldest landscape company in Idaho's Wood River Valley but they're well known and respected after 42 years in the business.
These businesses demonstrate exactly what's right with Utah and Idaho and why the business climate continues to grow and improve.
For Zions Bank, I'm Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
