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The folks at Bixler Marketing Group, Inc. (BMG), Council Bluffs, Iowa, paused a moment recently amid the hubbub of serving the electrical, utility and telecommunications construction markets in Iowa, Nebraska and western Illinois to look back on its legacy of 50 years as a leading electrical manufacturers' rep agency.
Launched in February 1957 as Bixler O'Dougherty Co., the agency's journey began when two neighbors who shared a Des Moines duplex, Jim Bixler, then a salesman for Kellogg's, and Bob O'Dougherty, a counter salesman for WESCO's Des Moines operation, hatched a plan to form their own agency. With nothing more than the money...