August 23/Nevada, Iowa/Press Release -- Bill Burke says he is not retiring from Burke Corp. He is transitioning. That response should surprise few who know the man who has been with Burke Corporation for 39 years, 26 of which have been in a leadership role for the company his parents founded.
As a child, Bill’s peers dreamed of becoming cowboys, astronauts and racecar drivers, but Burke said he was always interested in becoming a businessman. He got his start with a paper route at age 10. In frigid Iowa winters, he threw the papers from his bike, not from a heated car driven by his parents, as has become the habit of paperboys these days.