Top 20 Under 20 - St Louis Small Business Monthly Award

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."

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