Bucking the Trend: The Story of Buck Autrey and Miller Electric Company

Sage … Pragmatic … Enduring Buck Autrey doesn’t believe in giving up. Nor does the word “failure” enter his vocabulary. That kind of thinking turned a nearly bankrupt business into one of the largest and most respected electrical contracting companies in America today. Since 1966, Buck has navigated Miller Electric through major recessions, feisty unions, stiff competition, and a fast changing industry. As the electrical industry’s stabilizing force during a Justice Department investigation, he literally changed the way the industry does business. No small accomplishment for one starting out as an employee in a skating rink. What are the ingredients of this man’s success? Trust, commitment, integrity, hard work. These, along with Buck’s genuine care for others and a deep knowledge of the business, are his legacy … universal ingredients for success. One might add he also had a lot of fun along the way.

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In 1973, Howard Long wrote the president of California-based Western Growers—a powerful association representing half of America’s produce suppliers—notifying them of his intent to sue because of restrictive lettuce shipping practices. Twelve months later, Long’s challenge literally changed the way the industry did business. His victory marked the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship between McDonald’s Corporation and his company, Coronet Foods: one of the world’s largest suppliers of pre-cut produce to the fast-food industry.Fields of Green is the account of a man’s vison and entrepreneurial drive that took him from a small town on the banks of the Ohio River to the heights of a world-class business with plants in five countries and over 2,000 employees. It is a poignant account of victory in a tough industry, Long’s failing health, the demise of his life’s work, and his sustaining faith in God.Howard W. Long is the retired founder and chairman of Coronet Foods. Throughout his career, he has served on the boards of numerous corporations and charities, and continues as a trustee for Regent University in Virginia. Howard and his wife, Wendy, have five children, and divide their time between West Palm Beach, Florida, and Wheeling, West Virginia.

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