When Mandie and Ian Hagan decided to move from Colorado to New Hampshire in 2003 to help her mother run the family business, Rowell’s Sewer & Drain, after a devastating tragedy, it would have been easy for the couple to assume a caretaker role and just keep the business humming along.
But the Hagans, who now co-own the company along with Mandie’s mother, Debbie Rowell, instead went all-in on a pedal-to-the-metal growth strategy. The result is a much different company than the one founded in 1983 by her mother and her father, Dickie Rowell, who unexpectedly died of a heart
