Power Lunch: A Conversation With Brenan Riehl, President and CEO of Bethel-Based GW Plastics
Over a lunch of sandwiches, potato chips and cookies, Brenan Riehl, the CEO and president of GW Plastics, said the key to his company’s growth and success in the high-tech contract manufacturing field is being close to his customers, wherever they are. For a few minutes, after entering the GW Plastics manufacturing facility in Bethel, I thought I had been transported to a high-technology engineering plant in Switzerland: Tall,...
Teaming Up: Bethel Man Trains Rescued Draft Horses
Bethel — A drizzly morning last week found Carl Russell at Stitchdown Farm, ready to trim his new draft horses’ hooves. He whistled, and Tom and Mike jogged up to him. But the animals, recently rescued from a Massachusetts farm, were boisterous, jostling one other and darting around the paddock. “You’re full of beans today,” Russell said before ducking into the barn. He wouldn’t chase them — the attention would reward their behavior,...
