You've all seen those TV shows where experts make-over a restaurant or a bar, or remodel a home in the hope of flipping it for a higher price. When it comes to transforming a meat-processing business, brothers Mike and Jason Trippett seem to have raised the bar. When Mike, a former mortgage broker, and Jason, a one-time business consultant, bought the 92-year-old Roy L. Hoffman & Sons family-owned meat-processing company in Hagerstown, Md., in 2011, they had little experience and knowledge about the meat business. "We knew it was a good opportunity to take over a long-established family meat company that had a sterling reputation," Mike explains. "We had a love for agriculture and envisioned an alternative to the way big meat companies were distancing themselves from the local economy."
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机译：你们都看过那些电视节目，专家们在这里改过餐厅或酒吧，或者改建房屋，希望以更高的价格出售。在转变肉类加工业务时，迈克（Mike）和杰森·特里佩特（Jason Trippett）兄弟似乎提高了标准。 2011年，前抵押贷款经纪人Mike和一次性商业顾问Jason收购了拥有92年历史的Roy L. Hoffman＆Sons家族拥有的肉类加工公司，位于马里兰州黑格斯敦（Hagerstown）。有关肉类业务的经验和知识。迈克解释说：“我们知道，这是一个收购历史悠久，声誉卓著的家庭肉类公司的好机会。” “我们热爱农业，并设想了一种替代方案，可以代替大型肉类公司与当地经济脱节。”
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