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Just about the only thing that the closely held firm shouts is its slogan, “Where Service is Golden.” Clients have heard that every time they call the office of Hazel Crest, Ill.-based Lanco International Inc. since it set up shop in 1955.
Lanco is better known by its subsidiary, Mi-Jack Products Inc., a moniker that 80-year-old founder Jack Lanigan Sr. forged by combining the names of his first two sons, Michael and Jack. “I tried to design a company for my sons and for a company that I would like to work for,” says Lanigan. He tried to retire at 65, but got the itch for iron and came back to work.