Diane Hendricks

Create Jobs, Eliminate Waste, Preserve Value

Those six words explain a lot: Why Ken Hendricks is worth $2.6 billion, how he came to be a walking textbook on identifying and exploiting business opportunities, how he manages to make (relatively) few enemies while treating Beloit, Wisconsin, like one vast fixer-upper--and why he is our Entrepreneur of the Year.

Legacy: Ken Hendricks, 1941-2007

By Leigh Buchanan | Mar 1, 2008

A common man who achieved uncommon things. Read more

Raising The Roof

By Joseph P. Kahn | Dec 1, 1986

The fastest-growing company in the United States sells asphalt shingles. A lot of them. Read more

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

By Inc. staff | Oct 15, 1998

A collection of 27 short articles about companies from the 1998 Inc. 500. Read more

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