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Family-Owned Murray Percival Goes Above and Beyond for Customers
By Allyn Shunk, Contributor
emerging industry. Today, the company that bears his name, the Murray Percival Company, is a leading supplier of equipment and consumables to the Mid- west’s electronics industry. Mur- ray Percival is flourishing today as a family-owned business with a reputation for honesty, integri- ty, loyalty, and doing the right thing.
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Core Values After founding the business,
Murray Percival Sr. was ap- proached by the Electrovert Cor- poration, a company Murray Percival still represents today, to sell their PCB wave soldering equipment. At that time, the use of PCBs was still relatively rare, and the foresight to enter this business was not without risk: the industry had yet to emerge. Murray Percival was built on
ore than 60 years ago, Murray Percival Sr. was a pioneer serving an
Murray Sr.’s strong foundation of core values. His goal in business
well. He often said that their fam- ilies were his families, and it was
was not just measured financial- ly, but morally and spiritually as well.
Today, the company is
owned by Murray’s two sons: Murray Jr. and Mark. And now representing a third generation of management are Mark Jr., Murray III, and Matt. The phi- losophy is significant: family- owned businesses represent 64% of U.S. GDP and 78% of new job creation. Today, as a third-gen- eration family-owned business, the company has evolved from hardware provider to process en- abler, delivering to its customers and using the most modern tools and processes. “We strive to carry on that
Murray Percival’s team at its facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
was not only to provide for his family, but to be a provider to his employees and their families as
important to him that they were given a chance to grow along with the company. He said that growth
philosophy, taking care of our fam- ily, our employees and their fami- lies and our ever-growing family of satisfied customers,” says Mark H. Percival Jr. “The same philosophy that built our company in 1960 is still present today.”
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