Harriet Hageman: “I like being in the top five. I rise to recognize Wyoming's outstanding small businesses during this Small Business…”

“I like being in the top five. I rise to recognize Wyoming's outstanding small businesses during this Small Business Week. Like Wyoming's diverse topography, from pastures to sagebrush to majestic mountains, our small business landscape boasts a robust variety of services and industries. We have small businesses catering to the oil and gas industry and mining and energy, and we have boutique shops that make up our incredibly vibrant downtown areas. We have international businesses, like Brunton, within our State and those with similar national prominence, even some supporting our space mission and our military and putting food on the tables of Americans across this great country. I recently had the opportunity to meet Wyoming's Small Business Person of the Year, Lauren Heerschap, of Brunton International. Lauren is an innovator who saw an opportunity to improve a product she used every day. She worked with her husband to refine the tool and presented it to Brunton, a company that at the time was just a business whose equipment Lauren was using. Within only a few years of presenting that idea, and the company deciding to move forward with then manufacturing and eventually marketing a new product, Lauren and her husband, David, purchased that company. Thanks to Lauren, Brunton International is now, once again, an American-owned company.…”