If you’re looking to acquire a company and you’re not paying close attention to labor issues, you could be wading into risky territory. Exposure to labor and employment issues is often missed during due diligence, simply because these “soft cost” issues are harder to identify or quantify. In this article, ...

In 1997, seven frustrated toolmakers banded together to launch Rapid Production Tooling, an injection mold tooling company based in Berthoud, CO. “The company where we all came from had just been sold to a different company and we didn’t like the outcome, so we left and started our own business,” says Clark ...

Savage Services is a multi-billion dollar privately held company with 4,000 employees and a very active acquisition strategy. The company operates in three main sectors: agriculture, energy/chemicals, and environmental services. Sam Orme has been vice president of corporate development for nearly six years, in ...