Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Everclear emerges as true up-and-comer

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 02:30:28 -0500

Sunday, November 10, 2002

Everclear emerges as true up-and-comer

By James McNair
The Cincinnati Enquirer

WALTON - What telecom shakeout?

If anything is shaking out at
Everclear Communications, it
would be trucks, work crews
and transmission towers that
are helping to build the nation's
wireless telephone
infrastructure.

The pace of installing towers
and other equipment for the
likes of AT&T Wireless, GTE
Wireless, Nextel, Sprint PCS,
Verizon Wireless and
VoiceStream Wireless has, in
just three years, propelled
Everclear to the cusp of the
Greater Cincinnati 100. With
about $34 million in revenue
last year, Everclear came in at
101st.

A true up-and-comer, however,
Everclear expects to post $75
million in revenue in 2003,
which would have been good
enough for the No. 59 spot on
this year's list. Its payroll has
also grown, from 170
employees in 2001 to more
than 200 today, said Everclear
president Kerry Bowlin.

Created by the merger of three privately owned Tristate
companies in 1999, Everclear calls itself a "turnkey" or
"soup-to-nuts" contractor for customers in the
telecommunications and broadcasting industries. It installs and
services towers, lines, antennas and electronics.

"We focus primarily on the wireless facilities, which is the
robust portion of the telecommunications market," Mr. Bowlin,
son of co-founder Blevins Bowlin. "We do construction,
maintenance and upgrades, and as the consolidation of the
market takes place, a lot of smaller companies can't meet the
cash requirements to run a business in today's environment.
We've been able to sustain that and grab more market share."

Everclear's business locations and the whereabouts of its
employees vary with its jobs. For now, that puts Everclear in
Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Florida.

"Depending on which markets are generating upgrades and
new construction, we can be anywhere in the lower 48 states,
but we concentrate on east of the Mississippi," Mr. Bowlin
said.

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