GBS started with business forms at a kitchen table. Fifty-five years later, its employee-owners sell the connective tissue between labels, servers, medical claims, marketing campaigns and the documents companies cannot afford to lose.
Before ecommerce had a name, Summit Racing was already solving its hardest problem: helping a person find the right obscure part, trust it, and get it fast. Fifty-eight years later, the catalog is digital, the warehouses are national, and the customer still thinks in projects.
An 80-year-old Ohio ice cream counter is becoming a national franchise without outsourcing its central ritual: every parlor still makes the product on site. The constraint is also the pitch.