Success stories
By Industry
By Program
I Can Too! Learning Center – Salem
Small business creates lasting impact one child at a time
2BuyAg, LLC – Fulton
Food fight!
Sunnen Products Co. – St. Louis
Got home safely last night? Thank Sunnen.
Craig Jennings – Davis Creek
How do you grow lettuce without soil?
Farm to You, LLC – Washington
Doing it the natural way pays.
Better by Design, LLC – Brookfield
Woman-owned construction firm succeeds with MO PTAC help.
New-Aire Fireplace Systems, LLC – Carl Junction
Firing on all cylinders.
InnovaPrep LLC – Drexel (Where are they now?)
Going to Mars.
Mo-Sci Corporation – Rolla (Where are they now?)
Helping wounds faster with – glass? Yes.
Cohen Architectural Woodworking, LLC – St. James
Building great cabinets by building great lives.
MU College of Engineering and MidwayUSA: Partners in improvement, student learning
It’s a win-win-win for students, MU and MidwayUSA.
Logboat Brewing – Columbia, Public House Brewing – Rolla (Where are they now?)
Bringing home silver for tasty brews.
CellARide – Springfield (Where are they now?)
Partnering with Toyota.
Joy & Gladness Children’s Academy LLC – Jefferson City
Joy and gladness in child care? Definitely.
EquipmentShare – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Securing millions and expanding nationwide.
Nanova, Inc. – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Finding global markets for a new surgical clip.
BeWell Health, LLC – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Expanding abroad, that’s where.
MIDSCI Inc. – Valley Park
Where’s the global demand for DNA reagents? The International Trade Center knows.
Custom Powder Systems – Springfield (Where are they now?)
Adding new jobs for a new year
Civil Design, Inc. – St. Louis (Where are they now?)
Woman-owned engineering firm named a workplace star.
Midway Development Co., Inc. – Columbia
A business started in a pool performs swimmingly.
Roam Sticks, LLC – La Plata
Oh, give this family a home where the piggies roam
CellARide, LLC – Springfield
Tech firm texts their way to success.
A-Plus Contractors LLC – Saint Charles
“The St. Louis SBTDC is really good at what they do. Where we are at today would not be possible without them.”
Etegra, Inc. – Olivette
How can a small firm get big? By acting big. And where are they now? Making money from the people who make money.
Hannibal Machine Inc. – Hannibal
MO PTAC helped narrow these entrepreneurs’ vision.
Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co. – Columbia
Energy problem? Who you gonna call? P2
Missouri Moisture Analyzers, LLC – Maryville
Living the good life in northwest Missouri.
Logboat Brewing – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Expanding and winning Columbia’s small business of the year award
Aspen Spas – St. Louis
Going head to head with the conglomerates can be daunting. Luckily there’s help.
k12itc, Inc. – Kansas City (Where are they now?)
Winning the Mr. K Award, one of the most prestigious awards around.
Public House Brewing Co. – Rolla, St. James
They wanted this to be the place for everyone else. They didn’t realize just how many everyone elses there were.
Custom Powder Systems, LLC – Springfield
They don’t just think outside the box. They build the box.
DTE, Inc. – Lebanon
DTE makes products that span human life, but spanning foreign competition was tougher — until TAAF.
Babyation – St. Louis (Where are they now?)
Fully funded and ready to ship next year, is where.
Midland GIS Solutions, LLC, Midland Surveying, Inc. – Maryville, St. Joseph
To NASA and beyond!
Silgan Plastic Food Containers – Union
You probably used a Silgan PFC food container today, and with ITC help, people globally soon will, too.
Charles Tool Company, LLC – Eminence
How do you tell if foreign companies making inquiries are legit?
BeWell Health, LLC – Columbia
Ancient Hindu practice updated for 21st century health
Logboat Brewing Co. LLC, EquipmentShare.com Inc. – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Two BDP clients named to Columbia Business Times 20 under 40 list.
Pulse Medical Staffing, LLC – Columbia
Meet the mortar in the brick wall of health care.
Babyation – St. Louis
Wife and husband ask: Why can’t it be as smart as a smartphone, quiet as a luxury car?
Innovet, Inc. – St. Louis
Tenacity learned in the service leads to tenacity as an entrepreneur …
Veterans Worldwide Sales and Services, LLC – Gravois Mills
How can smaller firms compete in the federal marketplace?
Nanova – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Got cavities? There’s an innovative, MU-developed solution for that. Firm manufactures dental varnish, plans to add jobs.
Paradise Locker Meats, Inc. – Trimble
Just a little bit of paradise for carnivores
Elemental Enzymes Inc. – St. Louis (Where are they now?)
Helping feed 9 billion people by 2050, is where
Bur Oak Brewing Company – Columbia
What’s brewing in Columbia? Business success.
EquipmentShare.com Inc. – Columbia
Meet the Airbnb of equipment rental.
M3 Engineering Group PC – St. Louis
Happy hour leads to happy, busy days.
On the road to a new life
METP gave this father of four the confidence to start a new life.
Intek Corporation – Union
Business is heating up for this Franklin County firm.
Stronghold Data, L.L.C. – Joplin
Caves and high tech don’t normally go together. But this firm is anything but normal.
Brandt Contracting, Inc. – St. Peters
Sedrick Brandt is in the dirt business.
BK Bakery – Jefferson City (Where are they now?)
Give the people what they want.
Theodosia Family Medical Clinic, LLC – Theodosia
Health care in rural Missouri is in crisis, so this entrepreneur decided to do something about it.
Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC – Kansas City (Where are they now?)
Contracting firm finds success in federal marketplace with MO PTAC help; wins No. 1 spot on Ingram’s Corporate 100 list.
Weaver Manufacturing Inc. – Columbia
Life isn’t easy for an American manufacturer.
Missouri Thistle, Inc. – Owensville
Meet the largest small manufacturer you’ve never heard of.
Production Products Manufacturing & Sales Co. – St. Louis City (Where are they now?)
Chemical and biological protective shelter maker tackles Ebola — and the future.
Restoring Hope, LLC – West Plains
BDP Excellence in Business Award winner restores hope to people with developmental disabilities while boosting family income in one of the U.S.’ poorest regions.
Shatto Milk Co. – Osborn
Innovative organic dairy recognized as 2015 Excellence in Business Award winner for outstanding contributions to economy of northwestern Missouri.
Nanoparticle BioChem, Inc. – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Meet the father of green nanotechnology
ALL Solutions Inc. – St. Louis
Government contracting specialist Carolyn Jones helps owner of strategic analysis firm land DLA contract worth up to $3 million.
EnCircle Technologies – Columbia
Business counselor dives in with business planning, research, crowdfunding, more to help firm train individuals with autism.
Habitata Building Products – St. Louis (Where are they now?)
Habitata president gives major props to BDP for multiple government contracts, resulting in profitable year, hiring new employees.
JUNK Architects – Kansas City
What do a 2001 medical tragedy and MRIs in Saudi Arabia have in common?
Mercury Communications & Construction Inc. – Fenton
TAAC gets results for wireless services provider and general contractor.
Civil Design, Inc. – St. Louis
Vicki LaRose is in civil design but her real business is changing lives.
Mark Hall Cabinetry – Columbia (Where are they now?)
Good things happen when businesses listen to their BDP counselors.
LMG Construction Services, LLC – Kansas City
Lisa Garney’s CV reads like a superheroine’s: Construction supervisor and jack-of-most trades, attorney, pilot, White House intern, London School of Economics graduate, Corps of Engineers-certified quality control manager, master plumber. Plumber?
EyeVerify, LLC – Kansas City (Where are they now?)
‘Eyeprinting’ BDP client lands on Main Street.
TD4 Electrical, LLC – St. Louis
What do St. Louis’ gleaming new Ballpark Village, its new art museum addition, the Iowa State Cyclones, the NFL’s all-time top rusher Emmitt Smith, IBM and the rain have in common?
Mark Twain Cave – Hannibal (Where are they now?)
BDP helps make this business much more than a hole in the hillside.
Pinckney Bend Distillery – New Haven
The crafts spirits industry today is like the craft beer industry 20 years ago — people are tired of the same old same old and thirsty for artisanal local brews like Pinckney Bend’s award-winning gin, whiskey, vodka and tonic syrup.
Triple R Recycling, LLC – Joplin
Recycling is all in this family.
STI Technology Solutions, Inc. – Jefferson City
John Smallwood misses the Alaska winters. Really.
Schultz Surveying & Engineering – Poplar Bluff
A passion for small towns
Comfort of Home Healthcare, LLC – St. Joseph
The co-owners and co-founders of this home health care service saw their loved ones suffer from sub-standard care and thought, “We can do better.”
Infinite Energy Construction, Inc., – Kansas City (where are they now?)
BDP client named SBA’s Missouri Small Business Person of the Year
k12itc, Inc. – Kansas City
Brad Sandt looked at the sorry state of education tech and thought, “There has to be a better way!”
Lumate, LLC – St. Louis and Rolla
Tech company boldly goes into the final advertising frontier — mobile devices.
SCD Probiotics – Kansas City
Matthew Wood had a strong incentive to improve health and the environment — his mother, who died of cancer when he was just 18.
Hufft Projects, LLC – Kansas City (Where are they now?)
Internationally acclaimed design firm Hufft Projects, LLC, profiled here last year, will relocate to Roanoke Park and hire 12 employees.
PSRI Technologies, LLC – Jefferson City & Chesterfield
We celebrate Black History Month with this story of a talented, hard-working woman who found a niche and stuck with it.
Logboat Brewing Co. LLC – Columbia
They thought they had the business plan down cold — until they met with the MO SBTDC.
ACE Midwest, LLC — Parkville
How does a cable cross the road?
Very carefully.
Production Products Manufacturing & Sales Co. – St. Louis
Moving with the market.
InnovaPrep LLC – Drexel
The price of vigilance
Central Ozark Machine, Inc. – Alton
Triumph over adversity in Oregon County.
Major Custom Cable, Inc. – Jackson
MCC finds big potential in little Liechtenstein.
HY-C Company, Inc. – St. Louis
HY-C has been warming American homes since 1947, but import competition almost extinguished its fire.
Express Scale Parts, Inc. – Shawnee, Kan.
Manufacturer of bagging scales; bag hangers; closing, positioning and transfer conveyors; palletizing equipment; and portable bagging.
American Stitchco, Inc. – Mountain Home, Ark.
Manufacturer of stitched accessories and production parts for the automotive industry
InfernoTek – St. Joseph
Turning temperatures of 35 below to profit … the Inferno Element Protection System.
Phoenix Textile Corporation – O’Fallon
How did a small healthcare textiles firm make it to the big time? Government contracting.
JHS Specialties – Valles Mines
The discipline, drive and determination to get the job done
Lew’s Fishing Tackle – Springfield
Bringing back the ‘70s … lighter, faster, stronger.
Green Field Energy Group – Lee’s Summit
Who says government contracting is dying?
DoctorOn LLC – Columbia
Where were you 17?
Disease diagnosis via smart phone … there’s an app for that.
TwoAlity, LLC – Columbia
Twins with a flair for footwear … boots with clear plastic uppers
RK Stratman Inc. – Wentzville
Harley-Davidson T-shirt maker RK Stratman revs up international sales with help from MO SBTDC business development specialists.
Habitata Building Products, dba Halcyon Shades – St. Louis
Habitata brought jobs back. from Mexico, creating jobs and transforming a St. Louis neighborhood
Mark Hall Cabinetry – Columbia
Mastering financials spelled the difference between success and failure for this Columbia firm.
Simms Building Group, Inc. – St. Louis (Where are they now?)
Riding the storm out
Mark Twain Cave – Hannibal
Floods are not normally a good thing, but this multifaceted business reaped valuable lessons from the flood of ’08.
Rockridge Group – Springfield
These partners formed their own firm rather than stand by and watch their jobs disappear.
Joplin 3D4D Imaging Center
Custom ultrasound center takes clients into the fourth dimension.
WideBand Corporation – Gallatin
Big ideas from a small town … how computer network manufacturer WideBand Corporation developed additional technologies to win government research grants.
EyeVerify LLC – Kansas City
The eyes have it …
are you who you say you are?
AmiraLin Innovations – Columbia
A lot of inventions we see are looking for a problem to fix. This is just the opposite — an invention that solves a real problem.
American Food Exporters, LLC – Creve Coeur
As the developing world’s purchasing power grows, so does interest in the American lifestyle, including snack foods
Dacor Manufacturing, LLC – Fenton
Exporting to Bangladesh
Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures, Inc. – St. Louis
Awnings, canopies, displays and more
Mike’s Daylight Donuts – Moberly & Macon
Mike and Susan Davis, current co-owners of Daylight Donuts franchises in Moberly and Macon, were tired of working for other people.
Hufft Projects – Kansas City
KC design firm wins international kudos.
Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC – Kansas City
From $38,000 to $1.3 million and 25 federal projects
C & M Contractors, Inc. – Doniphan
They’d never worked in the conditions they found in Joplin
Innovating Solutions LLC – Belton
There’s an app for that!
The Sweet Tooth – Kansas City
Success is sweet!
BagBowl – Kansas City
It’s in the bag!
Broyles Transfer & Storage – Kirksville
Veteran Jacob Condon of Broyles Transfer and Storage in Kirksville hasn’t followed a conventional path to business success. But it’s worked for him.
Infinite Energy Construction – Kansas City
FastTrac Growth Venture courses pay off for this construction company.
Foxhole Technology Inc., Springfield
As a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business, Foxhole Technology accrues distinct advantages in procuring government contracts through MO PTAC.
Frank B. Powell Lumber Co. – Licking
Former veteran finds his niche, explores new markets
Ridewell Corporation – Springfield
Ridewell Corporation was hesitant to step into the contracting arena. Until MO PTAC came calling.
Robinson’s Cleaners – Columbia & Jefferson City
What’s a little laundry between friends? So reads the website of Robinson’s Cleaners, a third-generation business owned a brother and sister team.
Prier – Grandview
Making international business flow
Cardinal Scale Manufacturing – Webb City
Helping one of the most recognized but unnoticed American brands compete globally
Window Technology, Inc. – Monett
Fighting back against cheap imports
Cap America, Inc. – Fredericktown
Feeling the pinch of foreign competition
Wildwood Vision Specialists, LLC – Wildwood
Far-seeing optometrists open own business
Frontier Environmental Technology – Rolla
Saving lives with revolutionary waste water treatment
Accurate Rx Pharmacy – Columbia
Home infusion and specialty pharmacy services
Billy Goat Industries, Inc. – Lee’s Summit
Providing an entire go-to-market model
Creative Blow Mold Tooling – Lee’s Summit
Supplying life’s essentials doesn’t always mean you’ll survive and thrive
Loretta Bailey Insurance Agency – Joplin
Silver lining
Amplify Gymnastics – Joplin
Return to normalcy
Southtown Cleaners and Alterations – Joplin
Generations of clients
MO-SCI – Rolla
Rolla-based MO-SCI combines R&D and manufacturing capabilities to make extraordinary glass products for specialized applications.
FINSPEED – Moberly
Moberly is the right place to set up shop for high-performance auto parts maker
JMARK Business Solutions, Inc. – Springfield
Springfield-based computer network services firm expands with advice from MSU SBTDC
Patric Chocolate – Columbia (Where are they now?)
From bean to bar …
and beyond!
Jina Yoo’s Asian Bistro – Columbia
Energetic owner of Columbia-based Asian bistro offers sumptuous cuisine in a soothing atmosphere
Chiropractic Wellness Center of South County – Fenton
Young chiropractor team enlists help from MO SBTDC to seek financial backing for new practice in Fenton
Forest City Footwear and Screen Printing – St. James
St. James native happily transitions from 9-to-5 job to business ownership
Elemental Enzymes Inc. – Columbia
Tech startup in Columbia focuses on developing cheaper, longer-lasting enzyme products to treat contaminated water, soil
Simms Building Group Inc. – St. Louis
General contractor turns construction experience to business success in St. Louis.
Genesis Environmental Solutions Inc. – Blue Springs
Blue Springs environmental services firm makes positive strides with advice from MU Extension business development experts
Respond Right EMS Academy – St. Peters
EMS experience, solid business advice prepare two St. Peters entrepreneurs for constant change
Comparative Clinical Pathology Services – Columbia
Veterinary clinical pathologist creates profitable commercial laboratory in Columbia
I3 Technology Group Inc. – Joplin
Young tech-service company tackles growth challenges with guidance from MSSU SBTDC business experts
Mobile Media Technologies LLC – Parkville
UCM SBTDC tech client helped county emergency management office respond to Northwest Missouri floods
Affordable Moving Services Inc. – Branson
Branson moving company taps SBTDC expertise during business downturn
Danni Nicole’s – Hannibal
Upscale women’s clothing store taps unmet market in northeast Missouri
Hensley Technologies – Kansas City
KC tech equipment supplier rapidly reaches milestone in government contracts
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative LLC – Rolla
S&T students win University of Missouri entrepreneurship award
Old World Spices & Seasonings Inc. – Concordia
Seasoning company adds spice to nationwide food-industry customer base
B.K. Bakery LLC – Jefferson City
Pastry chef comes home to start upscale bakery in Jefferson City
A.M. Pyrotechnics LLC – Buffalo
Childhood vision becomes entrepreneurial reality for pyrotechnics manufacturer.
QM Power Inc. – Greenwood
Entrepreneurism proves habit forming for founders of firm developing new magnetic force control technology
Nanoparticle BioChem, Inc. – Columbia
Nanotechnology firm capitalizes on advice from MU business development team.
Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction – Columbia
Columbia-based researcher explores benefits of human-animal bonds.
Five-Star Houseboat Vacations – Kimberling City
Iowa natives launch houseboat rental business on Table Rock Lake
Hot Box Cookies – Columbia
Enterprising college students find themselves in the dough at their Columbia cookie shop
Nanova Inc. – Columbia
Chinese engineer makes Columbia his entrepreneurial home to produce better dental, orthopedic materials for patients.
Patric Chocolate – Columbia
Missourian’s heartfelt business of fine chocolate making leads to discriminating taste buds worldwide.
NEMS/MEMS Works LLC – Columbia
MU engineering researchers aim to take nanotechnology to the marketplace
Brick City Custom Works – Mexico
Three Mexico, Mo., motorcycle enthusiasts team up to transform their avocation into serious business.