We are pleased to announce we recently were awarded by St Louis Small Business Monthly an award for being one of the regions top 20 businesses with under 20 employees. The following article appeared in the Creve Coeur Olivette Chamber of Commerce newsletter...
On August 19th Small Business Monthly held a luncheon to
recognize the area’s top entrepreneurs with fewer than 20
employees. Danny Gurvis from Master Key Systems America
was honored as one of the “Top 20 Under Twenty”. Reprinted
below, with permission, is an article written by Small Business
Monthly.
In July 2006, when Danny Gurvis was challenged by a
colleague at BiLock, a distributor of a high-tech security product
line, to work on a business plan and start his own company, he
took the challenge seriously. He spent six months writing the plan
for Master Key Systems America LLC, a residential and
commercial locksmith business, and by December was off and
running. "The first nine months were spent procuring machinery,
tools, equipment, inventory, developing a marketing plan, and
advertising, all on a shoestring budget," says Gurvis.
A native of Melbourne, Australia, Gurvis worked as an
apprentice in the locksmith industry, learning from the best and
mastering his trade. Today he has used his experience to train
two part-time employees and increase Master Key Systems’
revenue by around 500%. "From the humble beginnings of one
job each week, we are now attending to approximately three to
five job requests per day," he says. “Our inventory has certainly
grown, and we are installing biometric access control systems
and closed-circuit television systems. We are also installing key
control systems for banks, schools and office-based companies
seeking greater control of their inter- and intra-office mechanical
physical security systems."
We previously wrote about this fantastic product back in January.
