Article: SOME LIKE IT HOT PEPPERS AND BOURBON ARE WINNING COMBINATION FOR HOT-SAUCE MAKER IN VIRGINIA BEACH.(BUSINESS)

Dressed in a golf shirt and baseball cap and driving a forklift through the aromas of vinegar and herbs in an open warehouse, Tim Ashman hardly looks the role of president of a successful company in the forever-mushrooming gourmet world.

But the look is misleading.

In just over a decade, the Virginia Beach kid who didn't know what he wanted to do when he got out of college has taken a family-favorite steak sauce and turned it into a growing manufacturing and distributing company that today makes, markets and distributes more than 230 sauces, dressings, seasonings and mixes. And, although his staff numbers only 12, he still manages to whip up new recipes at home.

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