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Melinda Booth of Booth Construction and Doug Reymore weigh in on their contract preferences.
Everything is now "before Katrina" or "after Katrina" -- unless he's talking about during Katrina, when the roof blew off his office and most of his properties were flooded or suffered severe wind damage. "I wasn't prepared -- no one thought anything like this would happen," says Jonathan Wallick...
With an average project size of $143,000 and a clientele consisting exclusively of dentists and doctors, Patrick M. Crowley Inc. (Big50 1994) has some of the baseline characteristics of many upscale remodeling companies. But instead of residential kitchens and master suites, Crowley's projects...
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations make it crystal-clear that employers have a regulatory obligation to ensure that every employee has been given the necessary information and training to perform their job duties safely. If you think you're going to beat OSHA on this issue...
After Scott Barr took over Southwest Remodelers in 1992, he quickly grew the company's volume from $2.8 million to $5.5 million in 1995, the year it was named Big50.
REMODELING profiles Gary Porter, owner of G.A. Porter Construction of Dayton, Ohio
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What kind of tool allowance or program do you have for employees?
Bill Simone (Big50 2001) says that he now spends three to five hours a week working at his remodeling company, Custom Design & Construction, in Los Angeles. But he's still very much a part of the home improvement industry; he haunts trade shows as chairman of HomePlus Finance, a sub-prime lender...
William Bartlett's Home Rebuilders has come full-circle, in a way. While the $7 million Atlanta, Ga., company is rebuilding tear-downs and doing high-end remodels (the average job size is about $300,000), it's also getting back to its original bread and butter.
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Do you use Internet lead-generating companies?