George S May Managing Director Paul Rauseo on Fox Business

Managing Director Paul Rauseo on Fox Business

Plating is Golden

Sales shine as chief named Entrepreneur of Year

Columbia City- C&R Barrel Plating had two customers when Daryl Lambert bought the corrosion- protection business in 1968. Lambert quickly made changes. In order for pieces to be coated individually as well as in groups tumbling in barrels, Lambert added rack plating to the business, although he didn’t drop “Barrel from the company’s name years. “I had four-man operation there at the end of the first week,” Lambert said.

Lambert expanded the mental plating business four times over the years, including moving from original site, which formerly housed a dry cleaner. The company now has 202 customers, two nearly identical plants across the street form its first digs and 120 employees working weekends to keep up. “We need about 130, but we can’t get them,” Lambert said, citing Whitley Country’s low unemployment rate, which was 2.4 percent in June and 2.8 percent in July.

“We turning down business all the time,” he added.

Last month, Lambert was named “Entrepreneur of Year” by management consultant George S. May International Co., which chose his from more than 10,000 companies it counseled in 1996. George S. May International Co. was called in to prepare C&R Plating for QS 9000 certification and improve management as 65-year-old Lambert slows down Lambert remains chief executive of the company, but Dennis Blaugh was named president a year ago. Blaugh started at C&R as a high school senior a few months after Lambert purchased the business. C&R Plating, owned by Lambert and his wife, Eloise, also was named the top Hoosier pollution-prevention company by the Indiana Industrial Operator Association earlier this year.

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SH Firm implements standards of quality management system
By Mary Wright

South Haven- A quality management system that was implemented at a city business this summer has already produced what one company official describes as “remarkable strides” in implementing the system’s standards and guidelines. Double J Molding, a second-tier (sells to an auto industry supplier, which in turn sells their products to companies like Ford, GM and Chrysler) company that makes injection-molded plastics parts for the automotive and other industries, initiated its QS 9000 quality management system in July of this year, with the assistance of consultants from the George S. May International Company of Park Ridge, Illinois.

QS 9000 is an expanded version of a quality management system developed in Europe called ISO 9000, which the American auto industry began using in 1987. under the QS 9000 system, companies adopting its 84 business standards, or sub- elements, can apply for certification by a third- party registrar. Once a company’s policies and procedures meet the system’s requirements and it is certified by a registrar, the QS 9000 certification can be placed on company’s letterhead and building to indicate that it is a business that adheres to a rigorous quality standard.

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Our Mission

To become the leading provider of quality contract services for the State of Alaska

Our History

M. C. Corporation (Morning Calm Corporation) focuses on the enhancement of small
businesses in the State of Alaska. Its mission is to provide “Quality Services through
Excellence”. MCC’s business strategy is to identify niche business opportunities and
embellish its market potential through methodical innovations in its processes. During
the last eight years, MCC has developed businesses in contract and retail services.
MC Corporation was formed on December 9th, 1991 by a group of minority residents in
Anchorage, Alaska. At the time of incorporation, MC Corporation (MCC) provided
cleaning services on-post for the quarters at Ft. Richardson, the local US Army base,
and professional office buildings in Anchorage. Upon receiving 8(a) status in February
1994, MC pursued various 8(a) set-aside contracts with the Federal Government in its
respective fields.

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Bob Fram

President, Garden & Valley Isle Seafood

Bob Fram began distributing seafood out of the trunk of his car in the early ’80 to any restaurant in Hawaii that would open its kitchen door from him. It helped that he had farm-raised Kauai blue prawns in his trunk. The oversized bright-blue shellfish opened a lot of doors early on, says Fram. As business picked up, he eventually persuaded his childhood friend, Dave Marabella, to join him in Honolulu, and the duo founded Garden & Valley Isle Seafood in 1984 as a seafood distributor. Fram is president/ secretary and Marabella is vice president/ treasurer.

The company has since grown to shipping fresh seafood to restaurants and wholesaler worldwide and boasts sales in excess of $15 million. Seafood is processed and shipped a 10,000-square-foot plant in Honolulu and a 7,000-square-foot facility on Maui, both of which have state-of-the-art food-production equipment. The distributor employs 45 and offers product from Hawaii, Japan, Tahiti, Fiji, Costa Rica, Chile, the Pacific Rim and Canada.

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East Penn Canada

News Surge – Message from the President

I am very excited about our prospects for a new fiscal year. We anticipate our rapid growth to continue and as a result we have hired George S. May, an international consulting firm, to review our corporate structure and recommend changes we should make in order to position ourselves to strategically handle future growth. Some of you may remember that we engaged this same consulting firm about 10 years ago and that their recommendations were instrumental in taking us from a $20 million company to a $75 million company. Their objective this time is to help us organize ourselves so that we can quickly, efficiently and profitably grow into a $120 million dollar company.

I would like to emphasize that our company right now is very profitable and that we are not experiencing any significant problems at this time, financial or otherwise. It’s because we are doing so well that we can afford to hire George S. May and be proactive about ensuring a bright and positive future for the company and all its employees.

The entire management team at head office is very excited at this timely opportunity to turn East Penn Canada from a good company into a great company. Our goal is to make East Penn Canada one of the best companies to work for in all of Canada.

I will keep you posted as this project moves forward.

Ethics have big impact on small business

In these days of corporate scandals and fiscal misdeeds, small business owners seem to know something that their big corporate counterparts do not: ethics count. Integrity and reputation are everything. But these things are sometimes taken for granted, and employees might stumble from time to time with a poor ethical choice that can damage your reputation.

Putting your business through an ethical refresher course might be a good idea. Two-thirds of small business owners say they are more concerned about ethical business practices today than in the past, according to a survey by the management consulting firm George S. May International. “It may be difficult to measure the benefit of ethical actions to your bottom line,” says Israel Kushnir, president of May International. “But a lack of ethics will definitely have a negative impact on a small business.”

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Champions of Small Business

To fix your retail business, stop complaining about outside causes and start looking inside.

Your store isn’t doing well. Or, it isn’t doing as well as you would like it to be. Where do you look for a fix? Too many retail storeowners are looking in the wrong direction, says an expert in small and mid-size business operations. That misdirection is why so many retailers are in trouble during these uncertain economic conditions. According to Israel Kushnir, president of George S. May International Co. in Park Ridge, Ill., storeowners who look outside of their own operation are depending upon issues and areas they cannot control. He says it is more effective for retailers to look inside to what they can control.

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