Smart Business Magazine, May 2017
May 2017 Smart Business Cleveland 57 a truckload of steel on Monday Crawford says Ill take it well convert it into pails Ill deliver the pails on Friday Ill collect the money and Ill come back and pay you on Monday and Ill pay the employees If you dont have money to start with its not in your family youve got to develop access to it And we have worked very hard through three careers to continue to expand our access to capital and get the support of people that would invest Those three careers have enabled Crawford to become an icon in the Cleveland business community Page is still CEO at Cleveland Steel Container Corp leading it to become one of the largest manufacturers of steel pails in the U S In addition to the pail business Crawford launched The Crawford Group where he continues to serve as chairman and CEO And since 1992 he has also served as chairman and CEO at ParkOhio Holdings Corp Under his leadership ParkOhio has grown to more than 35 manufacturing sites and over 55 supply chain logistics facilities in 16 countries throughout North America South America Europe and Asia The companys stated goal is to reach 2 billion in revenue in 2017 We want ParkOhio to be a company thats going to be in Cleveland for a long time Crawford says Thats important to us Fundamentally the pieces are all connected Weve got it to the point its sustainable and Matthew Crawford understands people understand Thats why were able to get credible players and thats who we build around People come here they expect to stay here They expect us to go on Matthew Crawfords son has served as president and COO at ParkOhio since 2003 Hes ready any time he wants to you know Crawford says talking about his sons readiness to step into his fathers role at ParkOhio Everyone is trying to figure out where Im going for my next opportunity Well I have a plan Im going someplace Im not finished I think were in pretty fantastic condition and I want to do something else Whatever he does its a near certainty Crawford will have a plan to make it work and a clear sense of what success for him looks like There are some CEOs they run from one company to another and there are some people they have made a lot more money than I have and been more successful and so forth Crawford says But we dont measure things necessarily on money here Theres a lot more to it KEYNOT E S P E A K E R T H U R S D AY M A Y 1 8 2 0 1 7 R E N A I S S A N C E C L E V E L A N D H O T E L AspireNEO
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