BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$20.0M
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- US
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For more than 106 years, we at Harper Brush have been developing the highest quality products to help our customers accomplish their cleaning tasks more thoroughly and efficiently. For most of that time, our products were sold only through independent distributors who became trusted advisors to our customers, providing personal assurance of product quality and gathering customer input that has played a key role in the invention of new products over the years. Today, Harper Brush products continue to be sold through independent distributors as well as a variety of retail outlets. From the first five-piece brush set developed by company founder A.K. Harper, our product line has grown to include more than 600 products in the following areas: - Industrial Push Brooms - Floor Squeegees - Car & Truck Wash Brushes - Automotive Brushes - Wet Mops & Accessories - Dust Mops & Accessories - Handles & Accessories - Point-of-Purchase Displays - Horse Care Products
President
Barry HarperNumber of Employees 110
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Household Textile Product Mills: 314129
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Jim Nairn was recently appointed to the newly created position of vice president of supply and logistics at the Harper Brush Works.
Harper Brush Works.(EASTERN)(Brief Article)
GREENVILLE -- Fairfield, Iowa-based Harper Brush Works is moving into a plant that Rubbermaid closed in late 2003 when it moved operations to Mexico and China. Harper will eventually employ about 250--hiring 50 by this summer--to make brooms and brushes. They will be paid about $15...
Harper buys plant from Rubbermaid.(Harper Brush Works Incorporation)
Byline: Bill Bregar Harper Brush Works Inc., a 105-year-old Iowa company still owned by the founding family, has purchased the old Empire Brushes factory in Greenville, N.C., from Newell Rubbermaid Inc. - bringing Harper its first in-house plastic injection molding. Harper...
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Iowa's Harper Brush Works Buys Stockton, Calif., Broom Maker.
By Reed Fujii, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19--Stockton broom maker National Broom Co. of California has sold its operations to an Iowa competitor that aims to triple production at the West Coast plant within three years. ...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Barry Harper | President |
| Jim Nairn | Vice President, Supply & Logistics |
| Scott Reid | Vice President of Manufacturing |
| Patty Adam | Marketing Director |
| Patty Adam | Marketing Executive |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | Vice President, Supply & Logistics | Current |
Scott is the Vice President of Manufacturing for Harper Brush Works. Reid graduated high school in Marion, IA and graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Engineering. Reid joined Harper Brush in March of 2005 as the Plant Manager of the Fairfield operations. In April of 2007 he was promoted to the Vice President of Manufacturing where he over sees all four of Harper's manufacturing facilities. Reid moved to Fairfield from Grenada, Mississippi where he was the Director of Operations for Advanced Distributor Products, a Division of Lennox International.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | Vice President of Manufacturing | Current |
| Fairfield, Iowa | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fairfield, Iowa | Vice President of Economic Development, Harper Brush Works | Current |
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | Marketing Director | Current |
| Fairfield, Iowa | Board of Directors | Current |
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | Marketing Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Harper Brush Works Incorporated | Marketing Executive | Current |
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