TABCO Design-Print-Promote, now turning 32 years old, is a case study in the realization of a small business dream.
Tom Bilyeu, a former employee of Moore Business Forms, founded the company at a desk in a bedroom of his Terre Haute home in 1978. It soon expanded into his garage, and in 1980, into the former Texaco station at 34th Street and Wabash Avenue. The station was remodeled and three additions added before the current plant and offices were built on three acres at 1100 S. State Road …

Driving along South 25th Street, you may or may not notice Reynolds & Co. No large lighted sign or massive facade is visible, but this is an understatement to its steady contribution in the local economy for the past 63 years.
Founded in 1946 by the late Stephen Gruesing Reynolds, the company has been led by his son Jerry since 1975. Reynolds remains a family company with Jerry’s wife Jean working in the business just as Stephen’s wife Lucille did in their time.
Typical of family businesses, Jerry started working part time …

When Len Quinlan began giving piano and organ lessons at the Conservatory of Music while a student at Indiana State University, he could not have foreseen his family-owned Conservatory of Music still thriving today. Becoming the general manager and then the owner came later.
“My Uncle Len poured his heart and soul into the business for 33 years,” Jim Quinlan, Len’s nephew and Conservatory president, said. “He was planning to retire in 2009, but passed away in 2007.”
“I returned to the Conservatory in 2001 with the intent to make it a …