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Success Lessons of a Fourth Generation Family Owned Business

November 11, 2019

Michael Rogers talks with Bob Spence, Executive Director of 126-year-old Spence Brothers Construction. Many small businesses are second generation family owned. Few reach the status of being successful fourth generation family businesses. Spence Brothers Construction has been in the Spence family for 126 years. “I came through the business, into the family, in a culture that basically socialized us into being hard working people and to being trustworthy people, and to basically do business with integrity,” says Bob Spence, executive vice president of Spence Brothers.

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