Rodney Coomer didn't whack any wise guys with a pair of cement overshoes at this year's World of Concrete in Las Vegas. But he and his newly-formed footgear company did get sunk with more orders than it could handle during the four-day construction show.
"We sold out the first day," says the Campbellsville, Ky.-based inventor of "Finishing Slicks," an injection-molded, polymer-rubber overshoe that keeps workers from leaving behind pesky footprints as they finish fresh concrete.