Article: A legend below the radar; What began as a fishing lure company is now Lake Region Medical, one of the world's biggest contract manufacturers in the medical technology industry.(BUSINESS)(Company overview)

Byline: JANET MOORE; STAFF WRITER

Not too long ago, Joe and Mark Fleischhacker traveled to Ireland to check out a medical device company they were thinking about buying.

As chief executive officer and president of Chaska-based Lake Region Medical, respectively, the brothers wanted to make sure the companies' businesses would mesh, and that their culture and work ethic would, too.

Not to worry. An e-mail later that day to a colleague exclaimed: "They're just like us!"

Actually, it would be hard to replicate the Lake Region Medical story -- a rags-to-riches, or more precisely, chicken coop-to-Chaska, yarn that is distinctly Minnesotan.

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