Jack and Donna Ewing, owners of Kona Ice of Central Springfield, MO, say they looked at several franchises before finding the one they wanted. They say this truck stood among the competition and like the company’s giveback program.

Michael Nesbitt, President of Nesbitt Construction, says he learned valuable lessons about work ethic and business from his father. Whether or not his father, Bill Nesbitt, founder of Nesbitt Construction, intended to prepare his eight-year old son …