A few years after Dirk Feikema bought Wesley Feikema & Son Sanitation Services from his father in 2006, he changed the name to Feikema Plumbing & Sanitation — a move that reflected the company’s growing shift toward a more diverse business base.
“So many of our septic customers said they didn’t know I also did plumbing, so I had to do something about that,” says Feikema, 50, the third-generation owner of the company. His grandfather, the late Peter Feikema, established the business in 1956 in Munster, located near the Illinois/Indiana state line in the northwestern corner of Indiana.
Why Feikema changed
