Micro Business Profiles
Transformation Marketing
Business Profile: Transformation Marketing
Shannon & Travis Filing | Panama, Nebraska 
Business: Transformation Marketing is a full service marketing agency based in a small rural community. The company has grown with business clients from all across the United States. Shannon Filing started the company in her home in 2002 when her children were young.… Read more
Bloomfield Tire & Oil, LLC
Business Profile: Bloomfield Tire and Oil, LLC
Jeremy and Stacey Gill | Bloomfield, Nebraska
Financing Package Referral from REAP
Business: Freeman Oil, Inc. had a solid history of being a good “community” business, serving area customers for over 30 years. It’s one of those essential businesses in a rural place and is valued by the community. … Read more
Lincoln Family Funeral Care
Business Profile: Lincoln Family Funeral Care Vicki Newman & Scott Dewitt | Lincoln, NE 
Business: Vicki Newman had experience in the funeral home industry and worked hard on plans for a couple of years to start a new funeral home in Lincoln. After several challenges along the way, including the progression of multiple-sclerosis, Vicki’s dream of establishing the kind of “family funeral care” business that she felt was truly a need in the Lincoln market, came true.
Master’s Hand Candle Company & Serendipity Chocolate Factory
Master’s Hand Candle Company & Serendipity Chocolate Factory
Owner: Susie Wissmann
Location: South Hwy 77, 3599 County Road F, Tekamah, Nebraska
County: Burt
Phone: 402.374.2003 or 402.870.1333
Email: info@mastershandcandles.com
Program Contact: Nebraska Enterprise Fund, REAP & GROW Nebraska Member
Business: Master’s Hand Candle Company was created in 2001 in Susie Wissmann’s kitchen.… Read more
Right Angle Lumber & Hardware, Inc.
Right Angle Lumber & Hardware, Inc.
Owners: Don & Cheryl Plager, Dale Plager, Audry Plager, Darold & Holly Plager
Location: 152 N. 3rd, Tecumseh, NE; 1143 Nemaha, Humboldt, NE
Phone: 402.335.3681 Tecumseh; 402.862.3231 Humboldt
Email: tecumsehlumber@windstream.net, humboldtlumber@windstream.net
Johnson / Richardson
Program Contact:
Janelle Moran, REAP Business Specialist
Center for Rural Affairs / REAP
www.cfra.org/REAP
402.335.3675
Business: In 2011 Right Angle Lumber and Hardware Corporation was formed by Don & Cheryl Plager, Dale Plager, Darold and Holly Plager, and Audrey Plager to purchase three lumber yards located in Tecumseh, Humboldt and Elk Creek, owned and operated by the James Hoke family.… Read more
The Landing Zone
The Landing Zone
Owners: Roger & Jill Dethlefs
Location: 7170 Bennington Road
Omaha, NE 68152
Phone: 402.571.5800
Email: roger.landingzone@hotmail.com
County: Douglas
Program Contact: Glennis McClure, Program
Manager Nebraska Enterprise Fund
www.nebbiz.org
402.685.5500
Business: The Landing Zone is a gas station and convenience store on the far north end of Omaha in the Cunningham Lake area.… Read more
Ad Hoc Apparel
Ad Hoc Apparel
Owner: Bertiher de La Cruz
Location: 418 South 38th, Ave Apt. 7,
Omaha NE
County: Douglas
Program Contact:
Midlands Latino-CDC Micro-Lending Group
Marcela Morales and Marta Sonia Londono
www.midlandslatinocdc.org
(402) 933-4466
Business: This business started in March 2011. Bertiher is a fashion designer as well as a profession- al tailor.… Read more
Chandler Sandhill Honey
Chandler Sandhill Honey
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Owner: Pat & Rachel Chandler
Location: 305 S Baxter, Anselmo, NE 68813
Phone: 308.880.1134 or 308.880.1733
Email: chandlerbees@yahoo.com
County: Custer
Program Contact: Glennis McClure, Nebraska Enterprise Fund
www.nebbiz.org or 402.685.5500
and
Dena Beck, REAP
www.cfra.org/reap or 308.528.0060
Business: Pat & Rachael Chandler took over management of Chandler Sandhill Honey in early 2000.… Read more
The Gray Group, Inc.
The Gray Group, Inc.
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Owner: Tina L. Gray
Location: Business & Technology Center
2505 North 24th Street, Suite 218
Omaha NE 68110
County: Doulgas
Business Website: www.TheGrayGroupInc.com
Email: taysinc@yahoo.com
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Program Contact: Omaha Small Business Network, Inc.
Vicki Wilson Tederman, Executive Director,
Phyllis Wagner, Business & Program Manager
www.osbnbtc.org 402.453.5336
Business: Owner, Tina Gray, is an African-American female, first-generation entrepreneur, and employs one part-time worker.… Read more
Clarkson Bakery
Clarkson Bakery
Location: 113 Pine St.
Clarkson NE
Phone: 402.892.3131
County: Colfax
Program Contact: Holly Quinn & Jeff Christensen,
Business Loan Specialists
Northeast Nebraaska Economic Development District /
NED, Inc. www.nenedd.org/businessloan.html
Business: Russ and Kim Scott purchased Clarkson Bakery in 2011. Kim’s aunt and uncle used to own and operate the Clarkson Bakery.… Read more
Bronte Windpower, LLC
Bronte Windpower, LLC
Owner: Jeremy Prunty
Location: Scribner, NE
Phone: 402.612.9251
Email: info@brontewindpower.com
County: Dodge
Program Contact: Holly Quinn & Jeff Christensen,
Business Loan Specialists
Northeast Nebraska Economic Development District / NED, Inc.
www.nenedd.org/businessloan.html
Business: Jeremy Prunty started Bronte Windpower, LLC in 2009. It was perceived that Scribner and the surrounding area needed a renewable energy retailer and installer that provide fast, courte- ous, and reliable service at a competitive price.… Read more
Tammy’s Soap Shack
Tammy’s Soap Shack
Owner: Tammy Ahrens
Location: 200 West Eldora Avenue
PO Box 304
Weeping Water, NE 68463
Email: www.tammyssoapshack.com
County: Cass
Program Contact: Janell Anderson Ehrke
GROW Nebraska
www.grownebraska.org
308.493.5394
Business: Tammy’s Soap Shack’s storefront opened in June 2006, but Tammy Ahrens had been messing around at home long before, making candles and soaps.… Read more
KD Designs
KD Designs
Owners: Kara & Danielle Parde
Location: 3500 Pela Verde Circle
Lincoln, NE 68516
Phone: 402.423.6035
E-mail: kparde@kd-designs-jewelry.com
County: Lancaster
Program Contact: Janell Anderson Ehrke
GROW Nebraska
www.grownebraska.org
308.493.5394
Business: Designs was started by Kara & Danielle Parde in 2005 as a way to do some fundraising for the Lincoln Community Playhouse.… Read more
Heladeria Antarctica
Master’s Hand Candle Company & Serendipity Chocolate Factory
Owner: Ana Rodriguez
Location: 3060 F Street
Omaha, NE 68107
County: Douglas
Program Contact: Adriana Zambrano
CC-Microbusiness Training and Development Program
402.933.0756 Ext. 1
www.ccomaha.org
Business: Ana Rodriguez and her family entered the small business world without having big plans for the future.… Read more
