Sioux City, Iowa (RI) — A Sioux City business is celebrating its 150th anniversary.
L.G. Everist says his great-grandfather, Luicius Garland Everist, started L.G. Everist incorporated.
The fifth-generation family company has around 500 employees with operations in the Midwest, Colorado, and California. Everist says while technology continues to evolve, the basic things they do have stayed the same.
Iowa Economic Development Director Debi Durham was the keynote speaker at Monday’s celebration.
Everist says the company is also playing a role in the FIFA soccer tournament that’s underway.
Everist says they are supplying 400 tons of sand as a base for each of six stadiums in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
