R.D. Merrill Co.
2016 Family Business Awards: Business of the Year, Large Firms
Gold: R.D. Merrill Company; Silver: Peninsula Truck Lines
GOLD AWARDR.D. Merrill CompanyLocation: Seattle in the 1890s, Richard Dwight Merrill built a business based on timber. Six generations later, the company he built, R.D. Merrill, has 1,700 employees and operations in timber, retirement homes and property development. Merrills great-great-grandson (and the companys current chairman), Charlie Wright, took the first step toward diversification in 1993…