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UNI’s Advance Iowa Grant Aids Businesses’ Succession Planning

Posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2017

GREENE - Dennis Hobson has owned and served as president for American Tool & Engineering Inc. in Greene for 25 years. A few years ago, he decided he'd like to someday retire.

Hobson attended a business seminar with his daughter, Sonja - who is transitioning to own the business with her brother, Matt - that started them on the path to pass the plastic molding company onto his kids. 

"What you hope for is you go to one of these, and every question you have is answered. 'Oh, I've got a plan now," Hobson explains. "Well, what you do is you go to one of those and you put up this idea and this idea, and then you maybe go to another one, and..." READ MORE