Article: Glacierview sales and service adapts to changing market: When the spruce bark beetle took out a Kenai Peninsula company's logging trees, owners reacted and still made a profit.(Brief Article)

Doing business in Alaska is always a logistical juggling act, but running a small business in rural Alaska can be an outright challenge. For many rural-based businesses, the key to success hinges not only on how the company deals with its logistical problems but also in its ability to adapt to an ever-changing business environment.

For Lloyd Schade, manager of the family owned Glacierview Sales and Service, located outside of Homer on the Kenai Peninsula, the challenge of running a successful small business in Alaska is all in a day's work.

"It's all about necessity," said Schade. "Most of the stuff we've done over the years, we wouldn't have even ...

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