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CONTENTS

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Going Global

Working locally and growing globally - these businesses have made their start in the Bismarck area and grown beyond the plains.

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Volume 5 Issue 5

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There’s something beautiful about living in a small city. Bismarck/Mandan, while growing immensely over the last ten years, and continuing to grow, is still considered small. Over 120,000 people live in the Bismarck/Mandan area, and from agriculture, health care and technology, our small town is making a huge economic impact, not just regionally, but globally as well. Do you know where the Netflix server is stored? How about where Tyson sources their beef? You are about to find out.

We often do not realize how much of an impact our community is making. The beauty of living in a 'small town. growing city.' is we get to keep the small town feel, but get to make a big splash without anyone paying too close attention. Our community’s work ethic and “can do” attitude has allowed neighborhood companies to go from local to global.

The following pages highlight companies who started small and have managed to bring their work around the world. Some you may recognize from issues past, but now you can read about their great expansion, and some you may have never heard of. Either way you can bet that all of these companies are making big splashes in the world. If 2020 has taught us anything this year, it’s about supporting each other, helping your neighbor and trying your best to make our world a better place.

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GOING GLOBAL intro Nathan Schneider, CEcD, Vice President Bismarck Mandan Chamber EDC

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The Bismarck-Mandan community is made up of all types of businesses and each and every one of them is important to the make up of our local economy. However, there are some that go somewhat unnoticed but play a significant role in Bismarck-Mandan. They are those “primary sector” businesses that do business all over the world.

Let’s take a look at the definition of “primary sector”.

Primary sector is defined as businesses that through the application of labor or knowledge adds value to a product, process, or service and generates new wealth.

So, what does that mean? Think about a manufacturing company or a food processing company. Through their processes, they take a raw commodity and create a more valuable product.

This more valuable product is then sold outside of the community bringing new dollars back.

Primary sector companies are vitally important to a community’s economy because these are the businesses that generate new dollars. These new dollars are then disseminated into the community through payroll, purchases, and capital improvements by the primary sector company.

An example was provided that has stuck with me.

It was during a visit to a particular primary sector company and it was shared that the company had a $13 million annual payroll and every single one of those dollars came from some other state. That is $13 million that never existed in the community and would not exist but for that company making that product and selling it outside of the community.

That is $13 million in NEW money that then gets spent at local stores and restaurants. If a community wants to grow it needs that injection of new dollars otherwise existing dollars are simply shared amongst the businesses.

Clearly primary sector companies are important to the overall growth of a community’s economy and certainly those that not only bring in dollars from other states, but other countries are of equal importance for similar reasons. Take for example a company like National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) in Mandan. NISC may not be an extremely well-known company outside our area, but that large building along I-94 on the west end of Mandan is vitally important to Bismarck-Mandan. NISC develops and supports software and hardware solutions for its member-owners who are primarily utility cooperatives and telecommunication companies.

NISC not only does work across the country but across the world.

Again, new dollars being brought in by a local company adding value to a service. Another example that might be a little more familiar is Bobcat. Most people are probably aware of Bobcat’s many different models of equipment used for a host of applications. Some may not be familiar with the manufacturing facility off of 26th street in Bismarck where a number of different models of equipment as well as attachments are manufactured. These products are shipped and sold all over the world and the money generated from those sales is used to support employees in Bismarck-Mandan who in turn buy goods and pay for services in stores across our community.

As you can see these global primary sector companies in Bismarck-Mandan help support and grow our local economy. They introduce new dollars into the system that in turn provide opportunities for growth in other areas. These companies are what help grow Bismarck-Mandan.

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CoSchedule photography Glasser Images story Maria Fleck

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tepping into the offices of CoSchedule in downtown Bismarck, there is an immediate sense of energy and purpose. CoSchedule

was started in 2013 by friends Garrett Moon and Justin Walsh after getting the idea for a marketing management software at their first company. After much trial and error, CoSchedule launched and its culture of fun mixed with hard work has helped this tech company operate on a global level and become one of the fastest growing companies in the United States.

CoSchedule is an online management tool for marketing teams and individuals that manages all kinds of digital content. Part of what makes CoSchedule’s product stand out is that it directly connects to the services the marketers are creating content for. 30,000 marketers in over 100 different countries utilize this North Dakota based software. “For us, since day one, we’ve always operated internationally. As a company that was just normal, we didn’t switch. We weren’t a local business that went global, we were a global business that started local,” explains Justin. Their customers were across the world, so that’s where they went.

Justin Walsh, CTO and Garrett Moon, CEO of CoSchedule

While CoSchedule’s success has been massive, it’s safe to say that the CoSchedule name and logo is better known outside of North Dakota than in. However, CoSchedule is committed to hiring locally, and bringing North Dakota talent to the forefront of the tech industry. “Core to what CoSchedule has always been is North Dakota talent,” says Justin. Starting a high-tech business in Bismarck, North Dakota may

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seem strange, but the results speak for themselves. CoSchedule has won various awards including being recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of the United States fastest growing companies for three years in a row.

Among those in marketing, CoSchedule has become a strong presence. “It’s hard to find a corner where marketing gets talked about where CoSchedule isn’t a name that they would know,” tells Justin. “The brand has become very powerful in the marketing space as being a leader of research and thought leadership.” Justin and Garrett are now moving to leverage this position and productize their offerings, by creating separate packages and product offerings for their customers. Along with this move, comes a new product.

“Headline Studio, coming this fall, will be the first brand new product that

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we’ve built from scratch as a company since we originally launched our marketing calendar back in 2013,” describes Garrett. This is a big milestone for the company and Justin hopes this line of thinking will continue over the next decade of the company. “You can’t really stay still, and this is one of those moments of not staying still,” explains Justin.

Garrett and Justin make starting and running a global business sound easy, but owning an international

“For us, since day one, we’ve

company comes with its own set of challenges.

always operated internationally.

Additional cost, language barriers, opposite time zones, and special regulations are just a few challenges that CoSchedule has to face. Garrett’s advice for a

As a company that was just normal, we didn’t switch. We

company looking to have an international presence?

weren’t a local business that

“Businesses that want to have more of a national

went global, we were a global

or international appeal have to start right from the beginning and you need to be thinking about that

business that started local”

early on… In order to have that global access you have to get out of that comfort zone and start pushing

- Justin Walsh, CTO

those boundaries as soon as you can.”

CoSchedule pushed these boundaries from day one, and their determination and vision has paid off. Together, Garrett and Justin have created a truly unique business to North Dakota and turned it into an unstoppable international company, that will only continue to grow.

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Dakota Carrier Network photography Glasser Images story Maria Fleck

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ave you thought about how much data is shared and exchanged on a daily basis over the internet? Or about how many times you

click on a link, pull up social media, or watch a video in a single day? This is done countless times a day, by billions of people. And yet, our expectation is that each click will bring immediate results. Here in North Dakota, we have Dakota Carrier Network (DCN) to thank for our instantaneous connection due to the responsiveness and reliability ingrained in everything they do.

Dakota Carrier Network was founded in 1996 by the 14 rural broadband providers in North Dakota. As the internet grew, these providers realized they needed to band together to provide their customers with the best connection. They tied their networks together with fiber optic infrastructure and created the Dakota Carrier Network backbone. This backbone provides high-speed internet across ND. “You can think of it as an interstate system that connects people. Instead of moving people, we move data,” explains Seth Arndorfer, CEO of Dakota Carrier Network.

Within the beautiful, well-lit offices of DCN, is a hardened core with 18 inch thick concrete walls, redundant power feeds, dual generators and a battery plant. Inside this hardened core is the data storage

Seth Arndorfer, CEO of Dakota Carrier Network

center and the network operations center. There are no windows, because it was built to take a tornado dead on and stay operational. “We’re the connection for most public safety communications. So when someone needs to call 911 or they need to call the fire department or state radio for dispatch, all of that is being handled over the network as well,” explains Seth.

Construction is currently underway at DCN so they can house the 911 call center for Mandan, Bismarck, and the rest of Burleigh County within the hardened core.

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Another impressive project DCN worked on was providing access to broadband internet for all North Dakotan students when they were sent home last spring due to the Coronavirus pandemic. “All of our lives changed overnight and just imagine what it would’ve been like without connections…” describes Seth. “We worked as DCN and the Broadband Association of North Dakota with the Department of Public Instruction, the Governor’s Office, and North Dakota ITD to start planning for what the broadband needs were going to be as all of our kids went home.”

The group first identified 72,000 students who were outside of Bismarck, Mandan, Fargo, and Grand Forks and within the area the 14 rural broadband companies operate. Within this demographic, they discovered 2,000 students without any broadband in their homes. They were able to connect 1,762 of these students to the internet, leaving only 135 students across the entire state without internet. This is a 99.8% connection rate for students, an unprecedented access rate not seen anywhere else in the country.

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Some obstacles that left those remaining students without internet included not believing in the use of the internet, living in an area not served by one of the rural broadband companies, or where it is hard to find where students live. In these cases, DCN made sure to provide community hotspots where students could still access internet.

An exciting part of the DCN’s operations is storing data and mainframes for global companies within their walls. For example, Netflix contacted them and now DCN houses a copy of the Netflix library that updates every night at 4 am. “If you remember Netflix in the early days, how long it took for a movie and so much buffering even during the movie, it was

“We feel that we provide

because you were fighting with everybody to get to

an absolute, mission-

that content whether it was in Chicago or Minneapolis or Seattle. Now the content is literally just a mile away

critical service for North

from us,” explains Seth. The actual device that holds a

Dakota’s economy in

copy of all the content found on Netflix is just a small, unassuming red box. The Google one is even smaller.

Various global companies rent out space in DCN’s data centers to hold their mainframes. These

order for businesses to compete, not only locally but also, at a global level,”

mainframes generate an enormous amount of heat, and without the massive A.C. units that are always running, the rooms holding them would reach 100

- Seth Arndorfer, CEO

degrees within minutes. There is extensive security protecting the data centers including fingerprint access and keycards. Altogether, DCN houses about 160 customers’ data and equipment.

The access provided by Dakota Carrier Networks is a crucial service in our internet-connected world.

“We feel that we provide an absolute, mission-critical service for North Dakota’s economy in order for businesses to compete, not only locally but also, at a global level,” says Seth. Thanks to DCN, the evergrowing world we live and work in is more accessible than ever.

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EarthKind, Inc. photography Glasser Images headshot Submitted story Jennifer Kranz

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e are back to check in on EarthKind, Inc with owner Kari Warberg Block. The plantbased, parent approved pest repellant

company was first featured in our September/October 2016 issue and has since seen significant growth in the last four years. With retail expansion across the country and new initiatives like education, product development, and speaking engagements EarthKind continues to maintain its stronghold on the safe and natural pest control market.

While retail expansion into places like Target, Tractor Supply, and most recently QVC have led to a 70% uptick in sales even during the pandemic, EarthKind stays true to its goal of reducing the toxic overload in people’s homes with continued research and consumer involved product development. “Part of our goal in starting EarthKind was that I wanted to give people options so that they didn’t have to choose between safe and effective and that’s not easy to do. There’s a lot of science and a lot of trials involved in proving the efficacy of our products. We’ve been busy doing trials all over the world, working with top scientists, I’m so thrilled,” Kari explains.

Not only is EarthKind providing products to keep pests away and toxicity down, Kari is also focusing on

Kari Warberg Block, CEO of EarthKind, Inc.

educating people on the “why” behind her products.

She is a featured expert with Martha Stewart Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Costco’s blog and has been a keynote speaker at the International Plastics Conference. “People don’t replace what they’ve always been doing unless they have a better reason to do so.

Our products and education make it easy for them to make healthier choices. Education has always been key to our mission at Earthkind,” Kari says.

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Kari and EarthKind have made big waves in the natural pest

is the platform that I’m going out with on podcasts and

control market and Proctor & Gamble has taken notice.

speaking engagements. It will unfold into many different

“It was a big aha for me when I saw Proctor & Gamble in

things like working with schools to make them healthier.”

the space. I thought ‘Oh that’s really good. My first real competitor is the biggest company on the planet,’ and I

Kari is especially excited for the January release of her

didn’t know whether to cry or throw up,” Kari says laughing.

book, Gathering at the Table-a story of purpose driven change through business. The book is written especially

Even with a company like P&G taking a seat at the table Kari

for entrepreneurs and explains what its really like growing

is assured that she will continue to deliver in meaningful

a business. “I wanted a book that didn’t exist when I went to

ways. “I was glad I invested in myself. Most people spend

college for business. I wanted a book that was like having

more on their cars than they spend on themselves. I drive

a cup of coffee and sharing every intimate, ugly, happy,

a used vehicle because I want that car payment to go

funny, gross, crazy detail,” she explains.

into investing in my leadership so that I can grow as both a leader and as a person. Now, I’ve invested enough in

As EarthKind continues its purpose of removing toxic

myself and my leadership to feel confident that I belong.”

poisons from households, Kari’s vision is to put poison companies out of business, she states, “My purpose as

EarthKind announced on Earth Day that it became

EarthKind’s leader is to deliver on that vision through

carbon free and with that came the release of the World

naturally smarter solutions that are both effective, and safe

of Protection Initiative. Of the initiative Kari explains, “This

for people and the planet.”

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ave you ever come up with an idea for a new product and researched it, creating a rough sketch or prototype, but then been stuck on

what to do next? Gizmonics was started to help clients turn their ideas into an actual product on the market.

Owners Evan and Ganya Anderson have been down this path many times and their extensive experience and expertise make them the ideal consultants for a new product. Their own products along with their clients’ have been made and sold all around the globe.

Evan and Ganya first met while attending UND. The pair became friends first, eventually dated then married.

Together, they moved to Seattle where Evan worked for Boeing. At the time, CDs were quickly becoming a popular way to listen to music. The issue with CDs was how easily they scratched. Evan and Ganya came up with a solution, but since they didn’t know the next step to take, they ended up shelving the idea. About a year later, polishes for CD scratches like the one they had invented appeared on store shelves across America, and this stuck with them.

While living in Denver Evan and Ganya spent much of their free time cycling. This lead them to think of an idea for a bicycle repair stand that doubled as a rack on a vehicle’s back. “Literally that conversation that day… was a major turn in our lives,” Evan tells us. Together

Ganya and Evan Anderson, Co-Owners of Gizmonics

they worked to get their product on the market and the bike stand got licensed.

Evan and Ganya's journey to licensing had a surprising side effect. “We had this production capacity in excess as well as just the experiences that we had, so people just started coming to us. We hadn’t hung out a shingle or anything,” explains Ganya. They started taking people on as clients, helping them develop ideas into products.

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With the knowledge that they could open this kind of business, Evan and Ganya decided to move back to their home state of North Dakota. After buying a building, they started a company called Widget Works and continued the work they’d started in Colorado. It was then that Evan and Ganya developed their second product, the Pumpkin Gutter.

While still living in Colorado, Evan invented the Pumpkin Gutter thanks to a joke. He was figuring out how to carve a pumpkin for his friends using only power tools, when he got stuck on how to gut a pumpkin. “There’s a really valuable product development lesson there. I didn’t say, I hate gutting pumpkins, I need to think of a better way to do it. I was thinking, how do I do it with a power tool?

It puts your mind in a different place,” explains Evan. His solution worked surprisingly well and a short while later, Evan and Ganya decided to develop the Pumpkin Gutter.

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The Pumpkin Gutter is Evan and Ganya’s most famous product and has been featured on Martha Stewart’s show, the Today Show, and the Marilyn Denis Show. Amazon saw their product at a pumpkin patch and contacted them about selling it on their site. Through this process, Evan and Ganya learned about international transactions

as

they

had

the

products

manufactured internationally and shipped back to the States.

While all of this was going on, Evan and Ganya sold Widget Works to Applied Engineering in Bismarck, but bought it back after three years.

They changed its name to Innovative Solutions

““That’s about the time

before selling it again to work full time for a

we were like, you know

company that was developing body armor for police and military made of plastic and lighter

what? I kind of miss the

than traditional ceramic body armor. They

game… and that’s when

became an integral part of the company before eventually leaving almost five years ago. Evan

Gizmonics was born.”

describes, “That’s about the time we were like, you know what? I kind of miss the game… and that’s when Gizmonics was born.” Once again, they were able to do client work, working on designs and getting more hands on. Evan and Ganya decided to keep their business small, with only the couple on the staff, so they could be pickier about their clients and really got involved.

The Andersons are not done inventing their own products, though. Currently, they are working on PFC plates and a health bar to go along with it. “We have some very interesting things in the notebooks,” hints Evan. As they have done in the past, there is little doubt that Evan and Ganya will continue developing products as innovative as they are.

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n this issue we are talking about the global impact local businesses are making and you can’t get more global than what William and Daniel Price have

done with Global Beef Consultants. The co-owners have partnered with experts to bring heads of cattle, infrastructure, seed, and irrigation to the country of Kazakhstan and modernize the country’s Angus beef operations.

The fourth-generation owners William and Daniel come from a long line of agricultural entrepreneurs.

Their great grandfather emigrated from England and headed west, but when his wagon broke down, instead of continuing on to Washington, he settled in North Dakota and started the town of Price. Little did their great-grandfather know the global impact his greatgrandsons would have.

The Price brothers have worked hard to grow their agriculture business and have expanded from Price Cattle Ranch to Missouri Feeders and now Global Beef. With the help of experts like Dr. Jacob Carlson of Bismarck and marketing genius Quinn Engle, Global Beef has successfully transitioned from a local company to a global force. “We like to surround ourselves with people that are smarter than we are because that

William and Daniel Price, Co-Owners of Price Cattle Ranch

usually works better and we’ve been successful that way,” William explains.

So, how did North Dakota Angus beef end up in Kazakhstan? A meeting with Kazak nationals at the Big Iron Farm Show was the impetus to the partnership that would change the way Kazakhstan approached its beef industry. Kazbeef began in 2010.

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Since the country’s climate is much like North Dakota if

Internationally, Kazbeef has revolutionized the beef

not a little drier and a little colder, the Kazaks wanted to

industry in Kazakhstan, but this partnership has created

know that Angus beef could survive their cold winters.

opportunities in the US as well. Tyson Foods has gotten

“They made a trip in January and we walked down to the

in on the international action with processing plants and

feed lot. They saw that Angus didn’t freeze in the cold and

Valmont Industries has not only gotten in on the action

wanted us to partner with them. We sat down as Global

they’ve built a manufacturing facility in Kazakhstan, too.

Beef and partnered with their government for two 5,000

Texas A&M University has received a grant to study the

head reproductive centers and one feed lot to handle

international operations and are learning about food

10,000 head,” explains William.

safety and slaughter practices virtually.

The process to get everything up and going in Kazakhstan

This has been a true team effort and the Price brothers

was more challenging than originally anticipated. “It was

are proud of that. Of the partnerships created through

a lot of organizing. When they told us they wanted to

this enterprise William says, “We’re not only just partners

ship cattle over we looked at each other and said sure,

we are really good friends. It’s worked out because we all

we can do that but we had no clue what we were getting

have the same goal: we want to make the country better.”

into,” William says laughing. The massive undertaking of shipping thousands of heads of cattle overseas had

So, what’s next for Global Beef? “There’s still more to do,”

a huge learning curve (resulting in many entertaining

Dan explains. “There’s a lot more work to do here.”

stories) and came at a cost of $1million per plane load.

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“We’re not only just partners we are really good friends. It’s worked out because we all have the same goal: we want to make the country better.”

- William Price, Owner

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Midwest Motor Express, Inc. photography Glasser Images story Maria Fleck

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orses have becomes semis, wagons have become trailers, and gravel has become asphalt, but the heart of Midwest Motor

Express Inc (MME) has endured. MME, founded in 1918, has a potent combination of innovation and adaptability which fueled their impressive success throughout the years while weathering major world events like the Great Depression, World War II, and now the Coronavirus pandemic.

Marlin Kling, CEO of MME

When the company was first established, there was no interstate road system and only gravel stretched between Bismarck to Minneapolis. With only horses and wagons, “MME pioneered overnight service from Fargo to Minneapolis,� explains Marlin Kling, the CEO of MME who has been with the business for 30 years.

MME has continued to push the boundaries and now has physical locations in 16 different states across the United States and deals in international import and export.

Ron Martin, VP of International Logistics at MME

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While MME’s headquarters are located in Bismarck, their international division is based in Fargo where it is run by Ron Martin. Ron is a licensed U.S. customs broker, so he has the ability to clear in-bound shipments through customs.

His division provides custom clearing services, arranges for transportation to the shipment’s final destination, and also takes care of the paperwork for exports. “E-commerce is getting to be a bigger and bigger part of our offering as well,” tells Ron. “Last Thanksgiving for example, we fulfilled over Black Friday weekend 15,000 orders that we shipped out e-commerce and eBay type shipments… This Black Friday we’re looking at probably doubling that 15,000 over that one weekend alone.”

MME arranges the details of shipping, taking care of the pick-up and dropoff and transportation whether it’s over water, through the sky, or over land, and this opens up new opportunities for small businesses. “If you look at our market here in North Dakota, we have a population of about 800,000.

If you’ve got a product now that you can sell in China, where they have 1.4 billion people, just think of the opportunity,” explains Ron. E-commerce is one of MME’s fastest growing services.

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The majority of MME’s deliveries are business to business, both national and international. “I think we can bring an area of expertise to the smaller shipper that needs to get a shipment to anywhere around the world,” describes Marlin. “There’s a myriad of regulations and compliance issues and things that need to be taken care of anytime there’s an inbound or outbound international shipment and if you’re not well-versed in it, it can be difficult to navigate. Our group can help handle that.” MME is currently helping many American businesses export products to the European Union. They also import numerous shipments from foreign countries to manufacturers in the United States.

“I think we can bring an area of expertise to

A more unique business MME does transporting for is a company from New Zealand. “We do a fair amount of work for a New Zealand company that

the smaller shipper that needs to get a shipment

has an interesting concept,” says Marlin. “This

to anywhere around the

individual watches what’s hot on Amazon, and

world,”

he’ll have product made in China, then have it shipped for the US, sell the stuff on Amazon and we’ll provide the fulfillment for them.” Helping businesses coordinate situations like this is one of MME’s fortes.

Even though MME is located right in Bismarck, very few local people actually know the extent of MME’s range. “It’s the best kept secret in Bismarck,” jokes Marlin. There is definitely more than meets the eye to this trucking company. MME has stayed on the forefront of transportation, even in a rapidly changing and evolving world.

They've expanded their scope to international shipments thanks to their employees’ tenacity and passion.

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N

ational Information Systems Cooperative (NISC)

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a

cooperative

that

designs,

develops, installs, and supports IT solutions

for rural electric distribution and rural communications companies. A cooperative formed by and owned by and serving other cooperatives, NISC was created in 2001 after two regional data processing systems, one out of Missouri and one out of North Dakota, decided to consolidate.

NISC is dedicated to providing cutting edge IT solutions to its members at cooperative prices. “We’re not in this business to make money. [Our members] own us and they’ve invested in us to provide them with software.

We aren’t trying to make a profit and if we do have margin, a portion of that gets allocated back to [our members] and we use the rest to reinvest,” explains Kari Reichert, Vice President of People Services.

NISC solutions include but are not limited to billing software, accounting, and engineering operations that service approximately 850 members. The vast reach of the cooperative covers more than 20 million consumers in every state, as well as American Samoa, Palau, and Canada. NISC is living out its mission statement: To deliver information technology solutions and services that are Member and Customer focused, quality driven and value priced and the company’s growth and stability is a testament to that. “It’s been

Kari Reichert, Vice President of People Services

organic growth and adding members by word of mouth. Our satisfied members talk to other members,” Kari says.

The company’s 1400 employees have had to transition to working remotely because of the pandemic. “The transition has been seamless,” Kari says adding that culture plays a big role at NISC. “Culture is first so that has been my biggest concern in People Servicesmaintaining relationships and that culture, and so far, people have really stayed connected.”

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With the help of Microsoft Teams, NISC is seeing geographical barriers breaking down and collaboration increasing so much so that the company may consider virtual employees even after the go ahead to return to a brick and mortar office. “We are expecting that even post-pandemic we’ll have more remote work. People are getting good at it and we’re feeling confident that it’s going to be a more viable option than in the past,” Kari explains. Since the beginning of the pandemic NISC has on-boarded 20 new employees and 40 interns.

Kari is happy to be working for a company like National Information Systems Cooperative. She explains, “We’ve just had such great success and I don’t see any signs of us slowing down. It’s exciting to be a part of a company that’s stable and growing with a great culture.”

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D

id you know that the vast majority of pulses grown in the United States are grown in North Dakota and Montana? The Northern Pulse

Growers Association is a joint non-profit organization founded in 2006 between North Dakota and Montana.

It represents these producers who grow pulses, edible seeds of plants in the legume family, which include dried peas, lentils, chickpeas, and lupin and fava beans.

The Northern Pulse Growers Association has many different roles, but a large part of what they do is education. In order to provide their producers with the best information, NPGA works with researchers to find the best practices for planting, harvesting, and everything in between, and a lot of this research is coordinated with universities. The NPGA also deals with marketing both to producers and consumers of pulse plants.

Another important role of the organization is advocacy with both state and federal groups. Shannon Berndt, the executive director for NPGA, explains, “The really interesting thing about this, is you would think, yes the general public doesn’t really understand all of this, but we did even a summer ago have some folks from Washington, DC come down here, because they weren’t understanding when we were explaining to them how pulses were stored, that they were stored

Shannon Berndt, Executive Director of NPGA

like any other grain. We had an uphill battle explaining that, and so finally they were invited out here. They walked through the fields with the farmers, sat and visited with the producers, looked at how they loaded and unloaded trucks. They saw the storage, the grain bins on the farm, and they left here with a lot more information than what they had coming in. And they were the ones that were making decisions on our industry. When we talk about advocacy, that’s another big part of this, is making sure that everybody is on the same level.”

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While the popularity of pulses has dramatically increased in the United States, they were primarily an exported crop until six years ago. India was one of the top countries that these pulse crops were sold to until their government began rolling out incentive programs for farmers to grow their own pulses.

This shift has helped India rely less on imports, but meant pulse farmers needed to find a new market.

Thankfully, at this time pulse sales began to grow in the United States, with hummus (which is made from chickpeas) becoming the number one snack food for a couple years in a row.

Pulses have a number of health benefits. They’re high in fiber, low in fat, and have low to no cholesterol. Research has found that they can be a good substitute for eggs, and the flours made from them can often be used as a gluten-free option. “Years ago, the only place you could find it was if you had the little nutrition food section in the grocery store. Now there’s just about anything… The food manufacturers realized you have to make it convenient. It has to be able to compete with the convenience of other things,” says Shannon. Many companies are also adding pulses as an ingredient to their food as an extra boost of nutrition.

Organizations like the Northern Pulse Growers make the large world we live in seem that much more connected. People who live across the world are eating produce grown right here, at local farms.

Picture that next time you pass a pulse field.

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"L

ocated in Bismarck, ND are the storytellers from

the

middle

of

everywhere,"

as

Threefold's website aptly describes it.

Threefold creates content for companies, local, national, and even global, that many wouldn’t guess comes from Bismarck. “We hold ourselves to the standard of national production… but also still sticking to our roots, staying true to who we are, the people that are in this region because there is a lot of great work that is happening that we’ve been privileged to capture,” explains Joel Land, producer and project manager at Threefold.

Threefold was founded in 2013 by brothers Keenan and Caleb Hauff, who have a passion for creating authentic and compelling video content. “Threefold is a commercial video production company, and we’re equal parts creative agency and commercial video production,” describes Keenan. Their team is involved in a project from the very beginning until the very end, helping clients with script writing, story boarding, and scouting talent and location. With their highlytalented team, professional gear, and expertise, they help shoot the actual content and then edit everything together in post-production. “That ties into the name of Threefold, being three parts of any good video and

Keenan Hauff, Director and Co Founder and Joel Land, Producer and Project Manager

good campaign is the pre-production, production, and post-production,” explains Keenan. While Threefold’s team is comprised of only five people, they do this all in-house, without any outside hires, one of the biggest reasons they stand out.

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Threefold is not your typical production company. Most

investment from both sides. You get to know a company,

production companies will be one or two people who

you get to know the people, there’s relationships built.

hire out for the projects they’re on and put together

There’s really something we can be proud of,” explains

teams for specific shoots. Threefold, however, takes

Joel. Some of these global companies include RDO

a different approach. The team works together every

Equipment, Bobcat, Insidesource, and Microsoft.

day without taking on outside help. “We work a lot more efficiently and a lot smoother because we work

Even while Threefold’s content is being seen around

together all the time,” explains Keenan. “We’re able to

the world, their faces and names aren’t on the screens.

do shoots that normally take more people because we

A big motivation for Threefold is creating content that

have an efficiency and understanding that makes it a lot

drives people to ask the question, who made that? “You

smoother.” Additionally, “There’s less loss of the original

do big work for companies, and you don’t always get

vision, what the project should be, when you’re carrying

recognized necessarily. Tens of thousands of people may

it through the whole way,” says Joel.

see your video, but it’s not like it says Threefold at the bottom. It keeps you humble,” says Joel. “Eventually as

This uncommon approach has paid off. “We’ve done a lot

we are producing high-quality work consistently, word

of cool, unique commercials locally that people wouldn’t

will get around. People will figure out what we do and

have guessed come from Bismarck,” says Joel. However,

they know the difference and that speaks for itself.”

their work has not been limited to only local commercials.

Threefold has gotten the opportunity to film in 21 states,

Watch any of their videos and you will see the passion

work with many global companies, and won numerous

and skill of these storytellers. The difference is made

awards. “Our bread and butter is 30 second commercials,

clear immediately. These storytellers from the middle

but when we get calls to do big projects, and you’re

of everywhere have made it their mission to approach

trying to capture the essence of what that company is in

storytelling in the pursuit of excellence, ensuring that

a few minutes, those are exciting because there’s more

their work has become known globally.

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“We hold ourselves to the standard of national production… but also still sticking to our roots, staying true to who we are, the people that are in this region because there is a lot of great work that is happening that we’ve been privileged to capture.”

- Joel Land

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We know it’s possible, but is it probable? Probably not. Most of us start looking for a gas station long before, or shortly after, that “low fuel” light turns on. So, although it’s possible, there are steps we can take that make it less probable.

Through experience, we gain perspective. We don’t fear running out of gas every time we get in our cars because we understand the correlation between what’s possible versus what’s probable, and because of the necessary steps we’ve taken along the way.

When it comes to financial planning, perspective works much the same way. The media often keeps a strong emphasis on the possibilities, providing us plenty of fear or exuberance. It is human nature

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Foodstuff with Medora Sletten

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y office mates and I

one of these elements take it

Bismarck Food Co-Op: I love

have been breakfast

out of the breakfast category?

walking into the Co-op’s bright

sandwich connoisseurs for

Why are some foods “breakfast

and earthy atmosphere. Nine

years. As much as I love the

foods” and other foods “lunch

times out of ten, when I walk

old stand-bys, I recently

foods”? Can any sandwich

into the Co-op, I beeline it

decided it was time to broaden

be considered a breakfast

for their drinks, cookies and

my breakfast sandwich (and

sandwich if it is consumed in

breakfast burritos. This one goes

breakfast burrito) horizons. Then,

the morning? What about ice

out to all of the vegan, gluten

just when I thought I’d tried

cream? Why can’t I have ice

free folks out there. The Co-op

them all, an old friend from high

cream for breakfast? Frankly, I

breakfast burritos come with the

school gave me life-changing

don’t have the answers, just the

ingredients right on the label

advice....order a Big Boy Pizza

questions.

so you always know exactly

Burger Flying Style and just call it breakfast. Genius!

what is going into your happy One more question: Does

tummy. The burritos are also

anyone else out there go to

available “on the ready” so if

This idea led me to dive deep

bed at night, filled with eager

you’re in a rush, they make a

into the age-old question: What

anticipation for the coming

great quick pick-me-up!

quantifies a sandwich as a

breakfast? Join me, as we try

breakfast sandwich? Is it the

five scrumptious breakfast

Cali Burrito: Cali Burrito has

bread, the egg or simply the

sandwiches and burritos.

given me a new favorite reason

time of day? Does altering just

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to head to the east side of

Bismarck. When they handed

things in this world as

me my bacon and egg burrito I

beautiful as melted cheese

almost gasped with excitement

on a hot sandwich. Ok, it’s

Balancing Goat: I think

as my arms cradled the weight

not a September sunset in

everytime I’m in Balancing

of the burrito. If you are looking

the Badlands, but stay with

Goat I overhear someone say,

for a hearty breakfast burrito

me here. Mighty Missouri's

“It’s so cool in here.” If you are

served to you warm and

breakfast bagel is truly a

looking for a bright, friendly,

wrapped in tin-foil perfection,

masterpiece. After I ordered, I

laid back atmosphere with tasty

you too need to head for Cali Burrito. They have

than I do. They’re just that good.

fully intended to start my morning by sharing

drinks, then Balancing Goat is for you. The Commuter Croissant

multiple breakfast

half my sandwich

sandwich is a perfectly flaky

burritos to choose

with one of my

croissant, with warm cheese,

from so it makes

office mates, but

tasty ham, and a tomato, which

for a crowd

then I ate the

instantly makes it healthy.

pleasing stop.

entire thing before

Balancing Goat also offers

any of them

many yoga classes so you can

even walked in

fuel your body before you move

Mighty Missouri: There are few

the door. Hey,

your body!

nobody feels worse

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about

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Blarney Stone Pub 408 E. Main

3-6pm, 9-close $2 off draft beer $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

3-6pm, 9-close $2 off draft beer $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

3-6pm, 9-close $2 off draft beer $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

3-6pm, 9-close $2 off draft beer $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

3-6pm, 9-close $2 off draft beer $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

9-close $1 off pints $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

Broadway Grill and Tavern Broadway Centre at 100 W Broadway

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass.

25% wine bottles

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass

3-6pm Happy Hour $4-4.50 beers $5-6 wine by the glass

5-7pm 5-7pm Glenlivet 1/2 off bottles or Scotch Flights: glasses of wine $15.00

5-7pm $3 Bottled Beer, $4 Tall Domestic, $5 Tall Import/ Craft Beer

7-9pm 50 cent pints

7-10pm $10 all you can drink

Ale Works 1100 Canada Ave

The Bistro 1103 E Front Ave

Borrowed Bucks Roadhouse 118 S 3rd St

Free Birthday Mug or Buy a $2 mug for $4 for taps, wells, and teas or $7 for topshelf

8-11pm 241’s

8-11pm Ladies night 241's

2-8pm $2.75 tap, domestic, and wells

Sunday

All Day $1 off pints $1 off bar pours $1 off house wine

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Elbow Room 115 S 5th St

8am-10am and 7pm-close $3 "You Call It"

8am-10am $3 "You Call It" and Service Industry Night 7pmclose

8am-10am $3 "You Call It" and $2.50 pounders all day

8am-10am $3 "You Call It" and $5 Hamm Jobs all day

8am-10am $3 "You Call It" and $3 Jack Fire all day

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm $1 off pints

4-6pm $1 off pints

4-6pm $1 off pints

4-6pm $1 off pints

2-6pm $1 off pints

4-6pm All 16oz tap beers and Zima 1/2 price

4-6pm All 16oz tap beers and Zima 1/2 price

4-6pm All 16oz tap beers and Zima 1/2 price

4-6pm All 16oz tap beers and Zima 1/2 price

MacKenzie River 4510 Skyline Crossings

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

O’Brian’s 1059 E Interstate Ave

All Day $3 Crown, $2.50 Black Velvet and $1.00 off pitchers

All Day $2.50 UV $3 Cuervo Tequila and $3.25 Long Island Teas

All Day $3 Titos $2.50 Bacardi and Windsor

All Day $3 Captain Morgan and Jack Daniels, $3.50 Colorado Bulldogs

241’s 4-6pm

Peacock Alley 422 East Main

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

Ground Round 526 S 3rd St

Laughing Sun Brewing Co. 107 N 5th St

Luft 510 E Main Ave

Saturday

Sunday All Day $3 "You Call It"

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

4-6pm & 9-close $2 off glass of wine, $1 off liquor drinks, $4.25 domestic talls, $1 off craft talls/shorts and all bottles

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

3-6pm $4 Craft Pints $3 Domestic Pints $1 Off Glasses of Wine $3 Wells

5pm-close $3 Bloody Marys All Day $2.50 well drinks Tap beer specials $1.00 of pitchers all day

3-6pm, 9-close $4 wine, wells, and beer $6 Martinis

Come join us for a signature cocktail...

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Bismarck Sidelines 300 S 5th St

Sports Page 1120 Tacoma Ave

Stadium Sports Bar 1247 W Divide Ave

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

8-10pm $2 & $3 drinks 10pm-close $3.50 Stoli and liquid plumbers

6pm-close $3 Fireball Shots, $2.50 Captain Morgan 10pm-close $2 & $3 drinks

3-6pm 3-6pm 3-6pm 3-6pm 3-6pm $2.50 domestic $2.50 domestic $2.50 domestic $2.50 domestic $2.50 domestic pints & bottles, pints & bottles, pints & bottles, pints & bottles, pints & bottles, $3.50 domestic $3.50 domestic $3.50 domestic $3.50 domestic $3.50 domestic talls, $3.50 craft talls, $3.50 craft talls, $3.50 craft talls, $3.50 craft talls, $3.50 craft pints, $2.50 well pints, $2.50 well pints, $2.50 well pints, $2.50 well pints, $2.50 well drinks drinks drinks drinks drinks

8-11pm 241’s

6pm-close $2.50 Captain Morgan $3.50 Jager Bombs

6pm-close $3 Grey Goose Flavors, $3.25 Crown Royal, $3.50 Tall Busch Light

8-11pm 241’s

6pm-close $3.50 Jack Daniels $3 Chuck Norris

4pm-Midnight 4-6pm 4-6pm 4-6pm 4-7pm $1 off everything $1 off everything $1 off everything $1 off everything $1 off everything

Tap In Tavern 601 Memorial Hwy

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything, Pounder Tuesday $3 Pounders

Toasted Frog 124 N 4th St

4-5:30pm all tap beer 1/2 price, $5 martinis, $3 wine $2.50 rail drinks

4-5:30pm all tap beer 1/2 price, $5 martinis, $3 wine $2.50 rail drinks

4-5:30pm all tap beer 1/2 price, $5 martinis, $3 wine $2.50 rail drinks

4-5:30pm all tap beer 1/2 price, $5 martinis, $3 wine $2.50 rail drinks

Tuesday

Wednesday

MANDANMonday

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything

12-2pm & 5-7pm $1 off of everything

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Broken Oar 4724 Pintail Loop SE

4-6pm .50 off all drinks

4-6pm .50 off all drinks

4-6pm .50 off all drinks

4-6pm .50 off all drinks

4-6pm .50 off all drinks 12-6pm Men's day $2 domestics and wells

The Drink 4007 South Bay Dr SE

3-8pm $4.50 tall domestic, $3.25 short domestic bottles, & wells

3-8pm $4.50 tall domestic, $3.25 short domestic bottles, & wells

3-8pm $4.50 tall domestic, $3.25 short domestic bottles, & wells

3-8pm $4.50 tall domestic, $3.25 short domestic bottles, & wells

3-8pm $4.50 tall domestic, $3.25 short domestic bottles, & wells

Sunday

An elegant dining experience...

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MANDAN Monday Lonesome Dove 3929 Memorial Hwy

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

All Day Happy hour

$1 off all tall tap beers

7-11pm 241’s

All Day $4 Long Island teas

All Day $3 Fireball shots

Powerhouse Bar & Grill 501 Burlington St SE

4-6pm $2.75 Domestic bottles & well drinks $3.75 Tall Taps

4-6pm $2.75 Domestic bottles & well drinks $3.75 Tall Taps

4-6pm $2.75 Domestic bottles & well drinks $3.75 Tall Taps

4-6pm $2.75 Domestic bottles & well drinks $3.75 Tall Taps

4-6pm $2.75 Domestic bottles & well drinks $3.75 Tall Taps

Rusty's Saloon and Grill 2331 Co Rd 136 St. Anthony, ND

$6 mules $4 house wines

$1 off whiskey drinks $6 mules $4 house wines

$6 mules $4 house wines

$6 mules $4 house wines

$3 Fireball shots and drinks $6 mules $4 house wines

Strawberry Bar 210 W Main

6-10pm 241 beers, All day 241 well drinks

6-10pm 241 beers, All day 241 well drinks

6-10pm 241 beers, All day 241 well drinks

6-10pm 241 beers, All day 241 well drinks

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

LINCOLNMonday

DJ's Tavern 70 Santee Rd

Sunday

12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm 12-5pm $2.50 regular $2.50 regular $2.50 regular $2.50 regular $2.50 regular $2.50 regular $2.50 regular drink and beer, drink and beer, drink and beer, drink and beer, drink and beer, drink and beer, drink and beer, 5-7pm 5-7pm 5-7pm 5-7pm 5-7pm 5-7pm 5-7pm $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks $3 regular drinks and beer and beer and beer and beer and beer and beer and beer

Last Call 118 W Main St

Vicky’s 106 2nd Ave NW

Saturday

$4 Bomb Shots

$3 Canned Beers

6-10pm 241 well drinks

6-10pm 241 well drinks

6-10pm 241 beers, All day 241 well drinks

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm 11-1pm & 4-7pm $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and $2.75 beer and bar pours bar pours bar pours bar pours bar pours bar pours bar pours 4-7pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

4-7pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

4-7pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

4-7pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

4-7pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

1-4pm happy hour 2.75 domestics, bottles, and wells .50 off other drinks

Buckets of Beer (domestic) $16

...Or even just dessert.

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Health Squad Name: Cory Knudsen, Grocery Manager/Buyer Favorite color: Purple Married for how many years? Thirt-no wait twelve! With two kids and one cat!

Describe THP in three words: I have one word, and it’s going to sound super cheesy, but it’s love. There’s a lot of love in that little store, it’s great and it starts at the top with Lonna, obviously.

Why are you so passionate about your job? It’s because I deal with companies that want to do good. I think too many companies just care about their profits and not people or anything else and that’s the biggest thing. It really is.

Cory’s five favorites products: Clean Cause Amazingly, 50% of the profits go towards those in drug and alcohol recovery. My dad was a recovering alcoholic so when these guys reached out to me a whole bunch of years ago in a previous job, I was like we’re going to have to do business with each other. They talk the talk, but they also walk the walk at the same time which a lot of companies don’t do.

Kabaki Kenyan Purple Tea This type of tea only grows in Kenya. The big thing with this is it has ten times the anti-oxidants of green tea. It’s super tasty and then they take their proceeds and help with health care and under-served communities in Africa.

Ketchup from True Made Foods Most of your normal ketchups out there, Heinz and others that we’re used to, are all high-fructose corn syrup and sugar. There’s just a bunch of vegetables jampacked in this one and it’s a veteran-owned company, so you can’t really go wrong with that.

Tony’s Chocolonely If you’re unfamiliar with them, their whole goal in the world is to eliminate slaves from the chocolate industry. 60% of chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast in Ghana. They estimate 2.5 million slaves are working on these cocoa farms and a huge portion of that is actually children so they are combating that, and the chocolate’s ridiculously good.

Uglies Potato chips, nothing too fancy there, but what they do is, they call it upcycle. They literally take the potatoes that are just going to be thrown into dumps that are totally edible and they turn them into potato chips.

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