Ray Barton He saw opportunities others missed. His insights into the power of franchising led to the expansion of Great Clips into the biggest single hair-care brand in the world.
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M. A. Mortenson, Jr. A builder of skyscrapers, airports, sports arenas, schools, and manufacturing plants, when he became president of the M. A. Mortenson Company in 1969, it had 15
Donald Kotula An Iron Range–bred bulldozer salesman, he responded to rising energy costs in the early 1980s by selling parts for log-splitters to homeowners with wood-burning stoves. That enterprise led
Don Helgeson For more than 50 years, a leader in Minnesota’s poultry industry. He built Gold’n Plump into a $200 million integrated breeder, feeder, processor, and marketer of chickens. When
William S. “Bill” Marvin Known for his single-minded devotion to his family’s century-old window and door company, he served as president and chairman of Marvin from 1960 through 2001 and