By K. Schipper
SUN VALLEY, Calif. – Solomon Aryeh believes in planning. An industrial engineer by education and experience, he’s constantly fine-tuning the various components that have made SMG Stone Co. run efficiently for most of the past two decades.
By K. Schipper
PHILADELPHIA — John DiDonato is a problem-solver. He believes life isn’t going to hand you a day without problems, but a happy day is where you learn something and then succeed in solving them.
By K. Schipper
SALT LAKE CITY – High school buddies Matt Pearson and Clark Taylor didn’t start out their working lives planning to be countertop mavens of the Wasatch Front.
By K. Schipper
CORTLAND, N.Y. – Just as a rudderless ship doesn’t get very far, neither does a business when it doesn’t have a goal and a direction to steer toward.
By Terri Chance
VAIL, Colo. – Small-town boy Gerald Gallegos was a mason by trade—and it only makes sense that he’d venture into his own business doing stonework.
By K. Schipper
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Custom Stone Interiors (CSI) does more than share its initials with one of today’s hottest television franchises – both have taken technology and used it to put a new spin on an age-old activity.
By K. Schipper
WATSONVILLE, Calif. – Picture this title for biopic of Mark DeBolske and his company, Riva Marble and Granite: When Good Things Happen to Good People.
By K. Schipper
ZION, Ill. – In 1987, Daniel Hahn was a 23-year-old marble setter who didn’t feel he was getting enough work.
Mario Sardo admits the only thing that might convince him his customers are truly satisfied with his company’s work is if they came through the door of his Bronx, N.Y., shop in a chorus line, singing his praises.
By K. Schipper
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – If the history of The Denver Marble Company started when Bernie Polak first turned the door key as the owner in the 1970s, it’d still be older the most of the competition … but that’s only part of the story.