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Birds of a feather definitely flock together, as demonstrated by the success of Wild Birds Unlimited (WBU) Inc. Serving customers throughout the United States and Canada, WBU strives to provide the best-possible products and knowledgeable local advice to help nature lovers and backyard bird-feeding enthusiasts attract the kinds of birds they want to their yards. This successful business formula has yielded more than 280 franchises, fulfilling WBU’s mission to “bring people and nature together and do it with excellence.”
It was a decision point that would determine the rest of his career. Curt Howell spent two days in the office of a Chrysler Corp. manufacturing executive during college that changed his life. “After two days of interviews back in the 1980s when they were looking to put more people with higher education and higher degrees into manufacturing, he told me if I wasn’t mining or farming or manufacturing, I was going to be non-value-added and that I needed to consider my life’s purpose, and I believed that,” Howell recalls.
Primerica has long been a household name as a provider of financial services for middle-income Americans. As of April 2010, the company took its name public as ticker symbol “PRI” on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The former Citigroup Inc. subsidiary made the bold decision to proceed with an IPO during a time when many companies were less concerned with growth and more preoccupied with simply staying afloat.
Andrew Benton’s path to higher education leadership did not follow the typical route. “I’m a lawyer by training, and always thought I would be a judge in a small town in my home state, Kansas,” Benton says. After initially pursuing that goal by serving as legal counsel and chief of staff for a small college in Oklahoma, he received a call that would change his professional destiny and take him from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.
Approaching football as a business rather than just a sport is the only way to successfully compete in the world’s most valuable sports league, according to Jamey Rootes, president of the Houston Texans. Rootes was selected twice by SportsBusiness Journal as a member of its distinguished “Forty under 40” list of leading sports executives. Under Rootes’ leadership, the 10-year-old team has earned many distinctions, including the American Marketing Association’s Crystal Award for best overall marketing campaign and the SportsBusiness Journal’s PRISM Award, which is given annually to the top major league professional sports team based on business excellence criteria.
For Galaxy Builders Ltd., its loyal, skilled staff has been critical to the company’s own strength and success, Director of Business Development Neilesh Verma says. “That stability has helped us throughout the years,” he says. “[We] don’t have to constantly train new people – they understand the expectations.”
If there is anyone ready to take the Great American Recession head on, it is Aslam Khan. The man emigrated from Pakistan to the United States with next to nothing to his name and has ascended to the helm of his own restaurant franchisee powerhouse, Falcon Holdings LLC.
The sole purpose of any business is to serve the needs of the customer in any way it can. Throughout his 30-year career in the power and process industries, Robert West has carried this ethos with him while instilling a culture of care and accountability wherever he went.
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