Kristen Cudden

Successful entrepreneurs recognize opportunities and develop strategies to succeed. Children of entrepreneurs often have a front row seat to the rewards - and challenges - in building successful organizations. When these “next generation” entrepreneurs, armed with first-hand insight and entrepreneurial spirit enter the business sector, they have tremendous potential to create even greater successes than their predecessors.

Read all about it! Ace Metal Crafts Company was featured this week in the Wall Street Journal as a Best and Brightest National Award winner.

Manufacturing Month is a wonderful time to recognize the friendly, and probably familiar, faces of our ACE Customer Success Team!

At ACE, our company’s purpose is to Create Joy Through Kindness. While we are committed to our customers, stakeholders, and team members to be the best stainless steel manufacturer in the industry, we are equally dedicated to achieve success through a culture of excellence and kindness. Despite recent challenges within the industry, and the world, we pulled together, investing in capital equipment, technology, and training. The result? We ended 2021 with our best year EVER.

Featured in the July 2021 Catalyst, learn how ACE's conscious culture leans into its core values, recognizing its diversity is its core strength -- and see how ACE's commitment to teaching, coaching and ongoing learning has continued the legacy started by Jack Lichter and Jack Stout.

Resiliency is often a defining trait of successful and sustainable businesses. When a global pandemic hits, the added stress to industry labor forces and supply chains brings a sharp focus on the importance of perseverance in the face of challenge. For this reason, “Resilience” was the perfect theme for the 2021 Small Giants Community Summit, held virtually April 27-28, 2021.