June 2017

June 2017
THE VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL
www.TheValleyBusinessJournal.com
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From left to right: G&M Hire Enterprises Director of Marketing Charlie Hoey,
Managing Partner Moses Rangel, Area Manager Judy Contreras
and Managing Partner Gregg Hassler.
@Work Personnel Services
and @Backgrounds
Celebrate Anniversary
G&M Hire Enterprises, the parent
company of @Work Personnel Services
and @Backgrounds Screening,
announced it reached an important milestone:
2 years in business.
In that short time span, partners Moses
Rangel and Gregg Hassler managed
to open and grow four successful @
Work Personnel locations in Temecula,
Riverside, Palm Desert and Carlsbad,
plus @Backgrounds, a well-regarded
global employment screening company.
According to the partners, the rapidly
expanding business started as a result of
the right people and events converging at
the right time.
“I spent more than 22 years in the
staffing industry making millions for an
employer that ultimately kicked me to
the curb,” Hassler said. “In the weeks
following that stunning day I decided
to take control of my own future, called
Moses and we started our plan to set up
shop as independents,” Hassler said.
“Letting me go was the best thing they
could have done for me.”
Hassler and Rangel brought in
staffing superstar Judy Contreras and
marketing expert Charlie Hoey to get the
business going. The new team toasted
the future and dove in. Both Hoey and
Contreras left the relative safety of high
paying positions for the challenge of
something new and the freedom to innovate
from the start.
“I saw the potential of this company
from the start, and wanted to be a part of
it. Gregg, Moses and Judy are a force to
be reckoned with,” Hoey said. “Only two
years in, we are well ahead of our original
growth projections with no signs of slowing.
We are still gaining momentum.”
The Temecula branch of @Work
opened first, quickly earning the @Work
Group National Franchise award for Fastest
Growing New Branch. A few months
later, the partners acquired a location in
Palm Desert, and soon enough that branch
also earned the Fastest Growing New
Branch Award. Carlsbad and Riverside
followed, with both of those locations
going full steam ahead. The @Work
division of the company is currently
in the top seven of @Work Franchise’s
100+ locations in terms of revenues – and
growing fast.
“The @Work Franchise folks probably
thought we were a little overconfident,
but honestly, we were not,” Rangel
said. “The reality is we started with a
clear business plan and a strong team,
each member with their own strengths
and experience in key aspects of starting
and managing a business -- sales,
marketing, operations and community
involvement.”
G&M Hire Enterprises credits some
of its success to its founders’ extensive
roots in the communities they serve.
Hassler’s concert and event business,
Golden Crown Productions, has raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars for local
and regional charities over the years.
“I believe in giving back,” Hassler
said. “In addition to @Work and @
Backgrounds, we are currently working
on multiple concert events and fundraisers
for the 2017 Temecula winery
concert season. In November, we will
be holding the WCMA (Wine Country
Music Awards) at Wilson Creek Winery
to benefit the Temecula Education Foundation
and its music education programs.
On June 21st, @Work will host the
Temecula Chamber of Commerce Mixer
at their offices off Jefferson Avenue. This
popular mixer will feature live music,
food, drink, and great networking.
“It’s all about cross-marketing!”
Hassler said jokingly. “But seriously,
I would like to thank our entire staff
and management team for believing the
dream and making the company’s second
anniversary so meaningful. We could not
have reached this level of success alone.
Look out 2017.”