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Scherer Brothers Lumber in Minnesota could be the poster child for pro dealers that find themselves in extreme survival mode. Housing starts in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metroplex have plummeted more than 80% from only a few years ago. That falloff necessitated a "disaster recovery plan," as COO Mark Scherer calls it, that included Scherer Brothers letting go of half of its staff and mothballing its yard in Albertville, Minn. More
Just three years ago, the father-and-son ownership team of Joseph K. Beckman and... More
