Riverside Manufacturing Inc. workers assemble wiring harnesses for military vehicles. Employment has soared from 35 to more than 500 since 2002. Photo by Samuel Hoffman/The Journal Gazette
Riverside Manufacturing Inc. workers assemble wiring harnesses for military vehicles. Employment has soared from 35 to more than 500 since 2002. Photo by Samuel Hoffman/The Journal Gazette

By Kimberly Peterson, The Journal Gazette

Fred Merritt owns six companies, including a recently completed multimillion-dollar acquisition, and one of his businesses was listed among the 1,000 fastest-growing in the nation.

And he did it all before his 40th birthday.
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