308 S. Madison - P.O. Box 138 - Raymore, Missouri 64083
Phone Local: 816-322-6795  *  Long Distance: 1-800-881-8163 *  Fax:  816-322-6796

About Breit Industries

At age 11, Gary Wansing went to work for a service station in Jeff City.  At age 12 he drove a moving van home to sandblast for a customer, his mother wasn’t too happy about him driving at age 12, but she didn’t know how to drive the dang thing to get it back to the service station!  During his freshman year at Helias High School at age 14, he went to work at 4:00am gassing buses, putting on tire chains, on Sundays he drove tractor trailer trucks across the river.  He was making a wage of .50 cents.  At 15 he got into racing motorcycles and stock cars.  His mom and dad soon ended his career of riding motor cycles when they found out he was doing so.  He graduated at age 17 from Jefferson City High School and went to work as a mechanic.  He had an opportunity to purchase service stations, get them functioning properly and selling them for a profit.  He then moved to Kansas City, Missouri as a tune up specialist.  At the age of 24, with 2 young sons, he went to work for Mt. Moriah Funeral Home selling cemetery property door to door.  At that time he called on a couple named Bruce and Nadine McCormick.  Bruce was so impressed with his selling abilities and mechanical knowledge, that instead of purchasing cemetery property from him he hired him to sell food processing equipment on April 15, 1970.

After working for the McCormick’s for 14 years, Mr. McCormick became ill with cancer and had to sell his business.  The business was purchased by Specialty Food Equipment Co. and he went to work for them.  After about 5 years Integrated Industrial Service purchased that portion of the business and he went to work for them.

In May, 1993 he and his wife purchased the business from Integrated.  The business started out in their 1,500  square foot  garage for about a year.  The business outgrew the garage so they purchased the old fire station, a 4,000 square foot building where the business resides today. 

  He was in a movie with Richard Kiley and Shirley Knight called For Thee and Thou.  He raced and trained quarter horses for 14 years, he’s an auctioneer, and he has 4 children; 2 sons, Mark & Matt; 2 daughters, Sandy & Julie; 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.  He and his wife, Peggy were awarded the First Time Exporter of the Year award on May 17, 2000 by Governor Mel Carnahan.  He has exported to Saudi Arabia, Panama and Africa since 1997.

His hobbies are cooking, golf, his dog and raising money for charities.  He is a charter member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles #4146, St. Sabina Catholic Church and Missouri & Kansas Meat Processors Association.

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