December 2025
3 profiles
Jimmy Hiller started his plumbing company with $500 and a pickup truck, and he still runs it
A Nashville plumber who once chased builders for payment built Hiller into a 17-location home-service company with strict rules for every truck and a school for his own technicians.
Ken Goodrich held the flashlight on a Goettl as a boy, then bought the company and rebuilt it
A Las Vegas air conditioning technician who learned the trade from his father bought a Phoenix cooling company founded in 1939 and built it into an HVAC and plumbing business in four states.
George Brazil’s Phoenix plumbing company now belongs to its employees
George Brazil started his plumbing company in Santa Ana in 1955 and changed how the trade charged and equipped its trucks. Seventy years later, the Phoenix company that carries his name is owned by its workers.