Business: Road maps and atlases custom-designed for specific businesses and organizations and electronically generated street and road data used by school districts, government agencies and businesses to pinpoint locations, plan pickup and delivery routes and determine distances.
Founded: 1977
Headquarters: Oakdale
Website: www.lawrencegroup.com
Executives: Founder Larry Charboneau; his sons, Carey, vice president of sales, and Chad, vice president of graphic design; and Jim Maxwell, vice president of geographic information services and electronic mapping
Employees: Eight
2006 revenue: $2.7 million, on track to reach $3.9 million in 2007
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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