A long road

Quality and integrity aren't just buzzwords at Woodruff & Sons Inc.
Those words are the guiding principles for the Bradenton-based contractor's third-generation owners and, they say, two reasons why the company recently celebrated 70 years in business.

“When we finish a project our name is on it,” says Don Woodruff, the company's president. “Most of them are here in our community where we live. We drive by those projects every day, and we want to be proud of them.”

Woodruff & Sons was founded in Michigan City, Ind., in 1946 by Roy Woodruff, who used his savings from serving in the U.S. Army during World War II to buy a bulldozer. He moved and hauled dirt, originally working with his brother and father. He bought them out after a few years, and the company eventually expanded into underground utility work, site development, road construction and construction management. It's also a recycler, manufacturer and supplier of crushed concrete road base material, soil cement and cement treated base.