Second Wind

摘要

Two simultaneous events once threatened to close Mark's Auto Service: the financial crisis of 2008 and the passing of Mark Buttita's father. "That really took the wind out of my sails," he recalls. The Rockford, Ill., shop he had opened 65 years ago was his father's legacy. "But then my wife and I bought the (property) from the estate. We brought my son in, joined a 20 Group, hired a business coach and things really started to take off." Founded as a radiator repair shop, Buttita joined the operation in 1977 and promptly petitioned his dad about becoming a full repair shop, which it did after his father retired in the 1980s. As the shop changed so did the name, fully and figuratively becoming "Mark's." But his father still loomed large with his design foresight.