Business: Snowplowing service that focuses on large corporate and commercial clients and offers everything from weather forecasting services to lengthy "snow management plans" to expensive snow-melting equipment to ease the chore of finding dump sites for the snow it plows.
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Plymouth
Website: www.tcossnow.com
Executives: Founder and CEO Steve Bartz and sales and marketing vice president and minority partner Rich Byrne
Employees: 19 full-time, 600-plus seasonal
Fiscal 2009 revenue: $7.98 million for year ended June 30
Quote: "With us, every customer is No. 1; our success is built on that idea." -- Bartz, discussing his company's policy of assigning separate sidewalk and plowing crews to each client to assure prompt service.
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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