'Innovation Blitz' jump-starts expansion for Quick Start.(HUMANSIDE)(Company overview)

Plant Engineering, April, 2006 by Kennedy, Tucker

Allen Brue, president and CEO of Quick Start Products and Solutions, Inc., was facing a challenge common to senior executives of both large and small manufacturing companies--how to expand his business. Although the company had experienced double-digit growth after he bought it back in November 2003. Brue realized that he was in a mature, cost-competitive market. "We needed to find ways to get more market share," said Brue. "It's all about growth."

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Located in Rochelle, IL, Quick Start has manufactured diesel engine cold weather starting systems for 46 years. The company holds the original patent for ether injections systems. Quick Start's customers are original equipment manufacturers in the large diesel, trucking and...

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