Guarantee Electrical has been powering up St. Louis since it "guaranteed" to electrify the World's Fair in 1904. (It delivered on the guarantee). Now a major US electrical contractor, the company offers commercial, institutional, and industrial services including construction, design/build, communications/data, and maintenance. Guarantee Electrical operates throughout the country and has worked on such varied projects as the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and several post office and prison facilities. Its GECO Systems division installs and services intercom, closed-circuit television, and other audio-visual systems. The Oertli family owns and operates the firm.

Handex Consulting and Remediation (HCR) offers a range of the environmental consulting and remediation services including regulatory support, risk management, site assessment, soil and groundwater sampling and remediation, and waste minimization. The company does much of its work for gasoline retailers; customers include the retail arms of Exxon Mobil, and Sunoco. HCR also contracts with government environmental agencies. The company operates primarily in the northeastern and southeastern US. Over the next decade HCR plans to double its revenues, in part by diversifying into other markets.

Nicolet Hardwoods has been shipping ash, beech, and cherry wood in the US since Ulysses Grant was president and just about everything was made of wood. Today the company produces and supplies hardwoods and softwoods both domestically and internationally. Nicolet Hardwoods manages 40,000 acres of hardwood timberlands in the Great Lakes region to produce fresh cut and kiln-dried lumber, rough and planed lumber, and random length and dimension stock. The company is owned and operated by fifth-generation members of the founding Connor family, who started Nicolet Hardwoods in 1872.

Market & Johnson provides commercial construction and general contracting services in western Wisconsin. It offers a full range of services ranging from the planning and preliminary design stages through delivery and maintenance. The company operates in the industrial, commercial, government, health care, religion, and education markets. Projects range from large buildings to small remodeling jobs. Juel Market and Milt Johnson founded the company as a home builder in 1948. Today Market & Johnson is owned by a group of five principal managers including CEO Dan Market.

Civil and environmental engineering firm Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates (BAS) specializes in municipal solid waste and hazardous waste management. The company helps customers with landfill siting and design; it also works on permitting and planning of landfill expansions and provides construction and operations support. Hazardous waste projects have included assessment and remediation on sites throughout the western US. The company operates from offices in California and Arizona. Leading consulting engineering firm Tetra Tech acquired BAS in 2009.

cme Grinding and Manufacturing, Inc.company, which provides precision metal grinding and machining services, was founded in 1948 as a bowling pin manufacturer. Acme Grinding and Manufacturing's machines are equipped for throughfeed, infeed, bar, and crush processes, a machining diversity that allows for faster turnaround rates and lower costs. The company has more than 40 machine tools on the premises. In CNC-based machining, Acme Grinding and Manufacturing offers milling and turning services.

Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) sees the road to riches paved with plain old cement, not gold. The group's subsidiaries produce, market, and distribute cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials in the US, Mexico, and Bolivia. With about 10 facilities in operation, GCC has an annual production capacity of approximately 5 million tons of cement. Additional products include cement blocks and prefabricated concrete products. Holding company Control Administrativo Mexicano owns about three-quarters of GCC.

HRH Construction has been polishing the Big Apple since 1925. Since that time, the company has provided general contracting and construction management services for commercial, institutional, hospitality, and other projects in New York City. It handles services ranging from scheduling and risk management to structural and electrical engineering. HRH's portfolio includes the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and the the AT&T world headquarters. HRH is also a leading force in urban renewal; it has developed and built more than 45,000 affordable housing units in New York, Washington, DC, and elsewhere. The company was founded by the Horowitz and Ravitch families. HRH filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009.

SGPA Planning and Architecture (SGPA) offers design, engineering, and planning services for retail shopping and mixed-use centers, senior housing facilities, municipal projects, and such specialty projects as laboratory improvements. The designing company serves clients throughout California through its offices in San Diego and San Francisco. SGPA was established in 1970.

Alberici helped shape the St. Louis skyline; it now sets its sights -- or its construction sites -- across North America. Alberici Corporation, parent of Alberici Constructors, encompasses a group of enterprises with a presence in North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. Operations include construction services, building materials, and steel fabrication and erection units. Alberici offers general contracting, design/build, construction management, demolition, and specialty contracting services. It also offers facilities management. The Alberici family still holds the largest share of the employee-owned firm, founded in 1918 by John S. Alberici.

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