SUCCEEDING by never standing still

摘要

Industrial Tapes & Adhesives Company, Inc. of Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla., was started in 1989—but was really simmering in the mind of its owner, Bill Young, long before then. Young spent many years working for Dayton Distributors (later R.S. Hughes), a large 3M distributor. In fact, he calls himself "a graduate of the 3M School." Young was like many salesmen in that he always wondered "what if," as far as someday running his own operation. During the late 1980s, when the 3M line he was selling was taken over by a new distributor, he found himself pursuing that thought one step further.