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Filed Under
Oregon
Business Ownership
Portable Sanitation
Septic System Pumping/Maintenance
Family Business
Satellite Industries
PolyJohn
FMI Truck Sales & Service
McKee Technologies - Explorer Trailers
National Vacuum Equipment, Inc.
Masport Vacuum Pump & Systems
Interstate Truck Bodies, Inc.
Spartan Tool
RIDGID
Infiltrator Water Technologies, LLC
Takeuchi Mfg.
Bobcat
Kubota Tractor Corporation
KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA Inc.
Employee Retention
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From left, Travis, Cindy and Mike Gates of Above All Sanitation. (Photo by Ethan Rocke)
When Mike Gates sees something going on in a market that could signal problematic changes for his industry, he doesn’t just wait around for the fallout to occur. At least twice in his life, he ended up making major life changes.
In the mid-1980s when he was in his 20s, he and...
