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The surest route to being competitive is to find ways to reduce costs, notes Duane Gilbert, COO at Gibco Construction. "We never shortchange ourselves when investing in new trucks and new equipment," he says. "We don't shop by price because we've found over the years the best quality products aren't the least expensive initially. However, they are the most cost-effective in the long run."
That approach is paying off at Gibco. The Cleveland, TN-based company specializes in site preparation for construction projects, excavating work, and building and maintaining highways in a quad-state area of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Currently, the company has a three-year backlog of projects, including work on an expansion at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport and at a new manufacturing facility for the solar panel industry.
Gibco's...