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MinneapolisMatt

(1,550 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 10:40 PM Feb 2012

Business is back in big way for MN boat company

Something to smile about.

WYOMING, Minn. - Scores of economic indicators speak to the gradual revival of the United States economy. But things are moving a little faster at Premier Marine in Wyoming.

"We've got so many orders we don't know what to do with them right now," smiles Lori Obar, operations manager for the family run company and daughter of its founder.

Three years ago - when Premier was featured in a KARE 11 Extra - things couldn't have been much grimmer for the builder of pontoon boats.

More than half its 250 workers had been let go, while remaining workers saw their hours cut as the company fought to stay afloat.

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Premier has now brought back more than 80 of those lost jobs. Revenue is back to pre-recession levels and Premier is again flirting with production of 50 new boats a week.

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More:
http://www.kare11.com/news/article/962629/14/Business-is-back-in-big-way-for-MN-boat-company



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