Roger Skillings discusses the benefits of offering water treatment.
In business now for more than 30 years, the company had started out solely as a well drilling operation. Sixteen years later, Skillings and Sons was looking for ways to grow the company. To expand in the business, drilling more wells was an option, but not the direction Skillings and Sons had in mind. Expanding vertically was a more desirable avenue for the company; it now does well drilling, pump service, filtration, well care, camera work - essentially everything that pertains to the well. The result: It's taken the business from doing a couple million dollars a year and turned it into an $8-million-a-year enterprise, says Roger Skillings, one of the sons in Skillings and Sons.