Area company finds seamless way to transition to next owner — an apprenticeship program

In July, Reba Rogers completed the sale of Bradenton-based Secure Aging to Melissa Leedom.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. September 20, 2019
Lori Sax. Secure Aging founder Reba Rogers attributes the success of selling her business to the apprenticeship program she did with new owner Melissa Leedom.
Lori Sax. Secure Aging founder Reba Rogers attributes the success of selling her business to the apprenticeship program she did with new owner Melissa Leedom.
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When Reba Rogers sat down to lunch one day in December 2018, she didn’t know she was meeting the future owner of her company.

 

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