Meet the Makers: Cross-training key to success of The Beck Cos.

Christopher Allen

02/28/2025

TABLE GAMES: Tracey Beck, co-owner and chief operating officer of The Beck Cos., shows off a shuffleboard table and a pool table, both designed and built by Great American Recreation Equipment Inc., one of six companies under The Beck Cos. umbrella that produces its products at the manufacturer’s 85,000-square-foot facility in North Smithfield. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

(Editor’s note: This is the 30th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the economy and, in many cases, our way of life. See previous installments here.) For Tracey Beck, co-owner and chief operating officer of North Smithfield-based The Beck Cos., the workday is never 9-to-5.

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