Midsota Manufacturing is 2018 Small Business of
the Year
Joel Bauer and Tim Burg, owners of Midsota Manufacturing
in Avon, have been selected as the 2018 St. Cloud Area Small
Business Owners of the Year. The award is presented annually by
the St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce.
Bauer and Burg have ambitious growth plans for Midsota, which
builds commercial and retail trailers. An obvious manifestation of
those plans is a new, 30,000 square-foot sandblasting, paint and
finishing facility, the remodel of a welding facility, and a new office
space.
The two men have owned the company since 2008. Back then,
they produced about 600 trailers per year with 18 employees.
Today, the company produces 2,600 trailers per year and has 110
employees.
After weathering the recession – by cutting hours, not employees
– Midsota has experienced steady growth. In addition to
expanding their retail and service space and adding a cold storage
warehouse, Midsota added a 50,000 square-foot manufacturing
facility in 2014.
“I never thought we’d fill it,” Burg said, “but now, three years later,
we were busting at the seams.”
For more information, visit www.midsotamfg.com.
Bauer and Burg are always on the lookout for the next new thing
in trailer design. Their goal, according to Bauer, is to arrive at their
annual national trailer tradeshow with something new every year.
“We pride ourselves on staying on the cutting edge,” Bauer said.
Bauer and Berg were honored at the Chamber’s annual business
awards luncheon earlier this summer.
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