Growth by Acquisition Can Lead to an Identity Crisis

Miller St. Nazianz refocuses on a single guiding principal “Your Productivity is Our Business”

2009 marks the 110th anniversary of Miller St. Nazianz, Inc., based in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin. And with those 110 years comes a lot of change.

Miller started out as a hardware and farm supply store, serving local farmers in the St. Nazianz area. For many years, the focus of the business was retailing farm supplies and distribution of farm machinery through a McCormick-Deering equipment dealership, being the first company to sell a horseless tractor in Wisconsin. Generations later, by the 1980s, Miller turned to manufacturing, and one of the most complex and challenging periods of change and growth for the company began.