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ENID WOMEN ARE MAKING THEIR MARK It is impossible to visit Enid businesses without finding women playing an integral part in their success. Four out of every ten businesses in the U.S. are owned by women, and women are making up a larger and larger part of the workforce. In this month’s edition, we profile three amazing women who are excelling in traditional and non-traditional fields, alike.
found herself on her own, with two children and needing something substantial to do to support her family. Her dad, Jim Parrish, invited her to join the family business. PT was founded by Amy’s grandfather, RC Parrish, in 1951. In 2004, it grew into one of Enid’s largest employers, and Amy was a great fit. “I started in the credit department learning the ins and outs of the business. I got to learn about our product and interact with our customers on a daily basis through the billing process. I knew I eventually wanted to transition to sales, and after a couple of years, that’s what I did,” says Amy. As a manufacturing company, PT designs, manufactures, and distributes all kinds of products, but its specialty is industrial hose fittings and related parts. “Our parts are used in a variety of industries all over the world, from agriculture, to oil and gas, to transportation and a lot more,” says Amy. Being a woman in a male-dominated field presents unique challenges, which Amy is more than capable of handling. “Being a woman initially gets you attention when you visit with certain companies, but you have to know your product still in and out. They lose interest quickly if you don’t know what you are talking about, so I needed to learn from our people everything about the products, the right terminology, and how they are used. Without that, I wouldn’t have gotten very far.”
Since joining PT, Amy has been there while the company has grown significantly over the last 18 years. After spending several Family Ties years in sales, she saw a need for someone to head up marketing Amy Parrish did not intend to work in the family manufacturing specifically, so she stepped into that position. “As the Director business. She had a degree in fashion merchandising and had of Marketing at the time, I was excited to redesign our catalog spent the last decade doing hair and owning a local spa. But she and tried to find ways to use technology to market our products 6 | JUNE 2022 | ENID MONTHLY
