Interview with Hose King Family

um we've got you we've got your sister Jenny and we've got your son Sarah right here the family behind the business so can you give us just a little bit of rundown about um host King who they are how long they've been in business and just let our audience know yeah so um our company name is Commerce hose and Industrial Products and our DBA is host King so doing business as the host King we started in 1994. my father started this business and um he took one employee with him and that was right by the time I graduated high school so I immediately came in so I was the third guy so I've been here about 29 years now and that's how long Congress house has been in business back then um we were short staffed so I was the the only warehouse worker the only driver I answered about a third of the phone calls in the office but fast forward today we have about 15 of us the other team name has been around since 1958 so um I've been in I've been in business here for about 29 almost 30 years now my father who acquired the host King name that 1958 so my father has over 60 years in this industry so that's pretty amazing so um I've got a tour of the factory and I know you guys manufacture or a simple all kinds of hoses but I started walking through here and you do way more than just poses so what can you tell us a little bit about what you guys sell when you make or manufacture just what goes in and out of business here every day as far as the hose products we sell to just about every industry that you could imagine we sell to the automotive industry the Marine industry and of course the painting industry the food and beverage industry we deal with hydraulic hoses concrete hoses cool Plastering hoses so um we definitely downloaded quite a few different Industries Jennifer will ask you a couple questions how long have you been working for the company and what is your position here so I've been in accounting HR uh again we all wear a lot of hats so kind of whatever is necessary we don't really be accounting so we got brother sister and mom and son Seth um Seth what did you do for our skin now uh I've been working here for about almost five years and I do many inside cells and I do do a little bit of outside so as I take on a few accounts outside of it again a few I do a little bit of everything in the warehouse if I'm making hoses cutting your noses so we've always prided ourselves on being a small company my mom who used to do all of her invoices by hand back in the day she…