Fast 25: Stay Dry Roofing
Stay Dry focuses heavily on its online presence. Olinger said he has a minority business partner who runs a digital marketing firm, and they concentrate on search engine optimization.
Stay Dry focuses heavily on its online presence. Olinger said he has a minority business partner who runs a digital marketing firm, and they concentrate on search engine optimization.
The company was part of the Super Bowl XLVI production team in 2012 and has been working with the NFL ever since on communications for the Super Bowl, the draft and its international games in London and Mexico.
It’s a good time to be in the business of providing custom packing supplies and whatever else customers need to get their products safely from Point A to Point B, Mavpak owner John Goo said.
Jim Sapp’s co-warehousing business has facilities in eight cities in Indiana and Ohio with a total of 84 warehouses.
Mike and Ryan Redman’s business is the largest Kohler direct contractor in the country, has three locations, and does business in six states.
Travis Barnes says the company has grown from one tasting room to three (Virginia Avenue, Zionsville and Fort Wayne) and distribution in 21 states and on 120 military bases.
Third-generation owner Dan Babock attributes company growth to “good general-contracting partners and owners who trust our work” and employees who have been given the chance to thrive.
The company offers full creative design, illustration, writing, digital strategy, web design and web development, in addition to PR and community relations.
Jason Gehring says his company’s growth is fueled by repeat business.
Formerly Peterman Heating, Cooling & Plumbing, the rebranded Peterman Brothers is a Fast 25 company for the third year in a row.
Co-founder Andrew Elsener says he expects company revenue to grow to $700 million this year and to $1 billion over the next 2-1/2 years.
President Kevin Gearheart says the company is now in 20 states—it just added Texas and Tennessee and expanded in states such as Florida, where it already had a presence.
We asked the Fast 25 companies: What makes your company a good place to work? Their answers included some familiar themes as well as a few surprises.
Duchess Adjei leads the design, planning and execution for all global communication efforts as head of global communication
at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, which develops, manufactures and sells products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing.
Tanorria Askew gives herself five job titles—creative entrepreneur, author, personal chef, social justice activist, podcast host—but they all boil down to this: “I nourish people’s bodies with food and their souls with justice.”
Christian Beck is executive partner of growth strategy and design at Innovatemap, which he co-founded, and helped develop Innovatemap Ventures, which invests a percentage of the company’s profits in startups.
Robert L. Marshall Jr. is founder and executive director of Vanguard Collegiate, which he said he opened as payback to the community for the strong education he received.
Ann O’Connor McCready is a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister where she litigates business contract disputes, complex environmental and toxic tort cases, intellectual property disputes, product liability claims and securities issues.
Jason Becker is the CEO RICS Software Inc. and Dyknow LLC and has led a turnaround of both companies.
Sarah Myer is senior director of marketing and communications at the Indiana Sports Corp. and helped manage this spring’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Indianapolis.