Local, personal, loyal formula breeds business success for Hank`s Place
(WorldNews Business)

How do businesses future-proof themselves? Richard Davison takes a look at older businesses in rural community to find out what keeps them ticking along. Sometimes succeeding in business isn`t rocket science but typically it requires a similar level of dedication. The intriguingly named Hank`s Place - in rural service town Lumsden - has been quietly baulking the trend towards the gradual creep of urban retail domination for 25 years now. Key to its steady, organic growth in the ever-changing agricultural hardware sector has been a determined `keep it local` attitude from successive owners, allied with the sort of personalised service that independent retailers often seem better adapted to...