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BOISE OWNED & OPERATED Local, Long Distance & International Safe, Clean, Protected Storage Certified Professionals You Can Trust Locally Owned & Operated Since 1944 11345 Executive Dr. Boise, Idaho 83713 208-376-8990 www.merchantsmoving.com [email protected] TM & © 2019 AWGI LLC Atlas Van Lines, Inc. U.S. DOT No.125550 IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW MILESTONES 2019 1 115 years THE EVANS BOYS (L-R): JIM EVANS, JOHN V. EVANS, SR. "GOV", JOHN 32 BRANCHES IN IDAHO V. EVANS, JR., AND UTAH JV EVANS 208-678-8615 WWW.DLEVANS.COM or D.L. Evans bank president John V. Evans Jr., watching customers become wealthy is one of the best parts of the job. FEvans Jr. is the great grandson of bank founder D.L. Evans, who started the bank in September of 1904. “I always tell our officers that we may not be GOV AND HIS BROTHER, DON S. D.L. EVANS BANK EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: CURTIS SMITH, JV D.L. EVANS HOLDING HIS billionaires, but we want to help our customers EVANS, SR. EVANS, BRENDA SANFORD, JOHN V. EVANS, JR. GRANDSON, DAVID. all become millionaires by making good loans and and recessions and the Great recession, we’ve stayed business customers as well as residential customers helping customers make good decisions,” Evans Jr. in business. It’s been quite a run.” and account holders. It offers mobile banking and says. “It’s so gratifying, 10 or 20 years later, to see Evans Jr. took over presidency of the bank when business services, plus retirement planning and an them become multimillionaires. We see it happen his father passed in 2014. His father, John Evans online education center. time and time again, and we have a lot of gratitude Sr., joined the bank after serving as Idaho’s gover- Evans Jr. has confidence in his customers and in in helping people become rich.” nor for nearly 10 years. That appointment brought the state of Idaho, and he believes that if the bank The Burley-based bank has grown to 32 loca- statewide recognition to the small Burley Bank. holds to its values of honesty and transparency, it tions throughout Idaho and Utah. Last year alone, will be able to weather any storm that may come it grew by $120 million to became a $1.6 billion Serving Idaho its way. institution. Today, D.L. Evans Bank is proud to offer every- “Banking has really changed and is going to thing the big banks offer, but on a more personal change in the future, but as long as you give that The move to Malad scale. It offers an employee stock ownership plan, customer service and help that customer, you The Evans family put down roots in Idaho long and loan officers have the ability to offer all types of should be successful.” before the bank opened, when the family left Utah loans. Most managers have also received advanced for Malad and started a farm. After years of various training at the Pacific Coast Banking School out of There are D.L. Evans branches in the investments and education, the family opened its Seattle, where Evans Jr. is a board member. following cities: first branch in Albion, Idaho. “Nothing comes easy,” Evans Jr. says. “You Today, the three sons of Evans Jr. work with have to put more time in, you have to put more s Ammon s Blackfoot s Boise s Burley him at the bank, as do several nephews and cousins. effort, you have to be compassionate for your s Caldwell s Eagle s Fruitland s Hailey The board of directors includes his brother, two customers. Our philosophy is to try to make that s Idaho Falls s Jerome s Ketchum s Meridian sisters, and his uncle’s two sons and daughter. loan if we can do it without too much risk, and so s Nampa s Paul s Pocatello s Rexburg s Rigby “It has been quite an honor,” Evans Jr. says. “It’s far it’s really paid off.” s Rupert s South Ogden s Tremonton been quite a legacy. Through all the ups and downs The bank serves commercial, agricultural and s Twin Falls 1870s through 1880s 1904 1910 1970s 1986 2014 2019 • Albion offi ce moves to its John V. Evans John V. Evans Brothers attend universities; the The original bank current headquarters, the Sr. retires as Jr. takes The Bank celebrates family begins a close partnership that First D.L. Evans moved to a two- corner of Market and Main governor of his father’s its 115th year with 33 would grow to include two Evans bank opens in story stone building • 1979 — Burley branch opens, Idaho and position branches and $1.6 Cooperative Mercantile Stores, several Albion, Idaho, in Albion, where it managed by D.L. Evans’s great becomes bank as bank billion in assets. ranches and farms and investments in in September stayed for 60 years 13 pioneer Idaho and Utah banks grandson, John V. Evans Jr. president president 2 MILESTONES 2019 IDAHO BUSINESS REVIEW 100 years 5390 WEST IRVING ST, BOISE 208-375-7475 WWW.MGUHO.COM hen Matt The Mark Guho Construction Guho Company profile includes: has a bit ofW downtime, he can s Hospitals s Education projects often be found giving s Health care facilities s Tenant improvements s his son Griffin, 6, and Parking structures s State and local s Recreational and park government buildings his daughter Lucia, 5, facilities rides on the heavy ma- MATT GUHO JOHN CARR MJ GUHO s Religious facilities PARTNER AND CEO PARTNER AND COO PARTNER AND VP s Tenant improvements chinery at his job sites. s Animal care hospitals s Remediation “They love sitting in kept the family business going strong ever since. s Commercial projects s Bridge work big equipment,” he says. “Here last weekend I was in Each Mark oversaw big changes to the business, a big dozer and excavator and we were just stomping Matt explains. A new immigrant from Croatia, A project to be proud of up and down on the big equipment.” Matt’s great grandfather specialized in utility con- The company has made its mark in iconic The experience reminds Matt of his own child- struction in the Los Angeles area. Matt’s grandfather structures throughout the Northwest, but the hood, where he and his brother MJ learned the value expanded on that, owning both the construction of hard work from a young age, helping to pick up leadership is particularly proud of one project: the business and a building materials business. That Steele Memorial Medical Center in Salmon, Idaho. trash and push brooms. Mark helped the business transition to vertical It included an expansion, a new medical office To this day, under the joint leadership of Matt construction (buildings) rather than horizontal and MJ, the Mark Guho Construction Company is construction (utilities). Then, in the nineties, Matt’s building, a helicopter landing pad and construction in a class of its own. father moved the family and the company to Boise of a maintenance building.