New products, formalized installation network keep manufacturer on growth track

Manufacturer Harmar — with an ever-increasing customer base — seeks to ramp up growth even more. One key: continuously improve quality.

By Grier Ferguson
| 6:00 a.m. November 23, 2018
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File. Steve Dawson is CEO of Sarasota-based Harmar.

Strategies

Walking through the Sarasota factory of mobility lift maker Harmar, CEO Steve Dawson knows pretty much all the employees’ names, greeting them individually as he walks by.

They’re working on manufacturing products such as stair lifts and vehicle lifts that allow people who have mobility challenges to travel up stairs in their homes or lift their wheelchairs into a vehicle.