November 2013
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rication enterprise and Sustar agreed to con-
sider this, but said he wanted to talk it over
with his wife. “That guy immediately called
my dad and asked, ‘What kind of a wimp of
a son do you have that he needs to discuss it
with his wife?’”
Sustar went on to sole owner of Fredon
Corporation, a company named from the
combining of two names who were early
partners (a “Fred” and a “Don”). Sustar ac-
knowledges the early years were far from
easy; competition and lack of capital resourc-
es were challenges he encountered along the
way. At one point, more than twenty years
ago, the fiscal situation seemed so bleak as to
