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Article: From local shop to international service provider

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June 1, 2008
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Expanding reach brings company full circle, from motors, to generators, and back to motors again

FARMINGTON, N.M.-When Ben Heikkinen sold his Electrical Machinery & Repair business in Beaumont, Tex., to Reliance Electric in 1979, he planned on private life back in the Rocky Mountain West.

But an acquaintance who was also looking to retire, Wayne England, buttonholed Ben in Colorado and persuaded him to buy the England Electric eight-man shop here in Farmington. (A second purchase, to be "just a hobby" at first, was a 1,000-acre ranch near Durango, Colo.)

The eight employees have now grown to 200, while the firm itself occupies three separate facilities in Farmington (population 43,000), ...

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