A group of fabricators in the New Jersey/New York area came together on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 to participate in a Stone Industry Education seminar offered by Stone World and the Marble Institute of America & Building Stone Institute (MIA+BSI), and sponsored by M S International, Inc. (MSI) at its facility in Edison, NJ. Moderated by Eric Tryon of Premier Surfaces in Atlanta, GA, the “Town Hall” environment allowed attendees to participate in an open-forum session to address pertinent issues affecting their businesses today.
Tryon, who currently runs four locations, began by explaining to the crowd that dedication to the “process” of building a company will pay off in the long run. “I started in the industry in 2002, with just me,” he said. “I hired one employee. I was in Atlanta. Fast forward to where we are today. We have about 175 employees across four locations in the southeast. Business has evolved at a very controlled, but hectic pace of growth. If we didn’t take the blinders off and look at different ways of doing business, we wouldn’t be where we are today.