He came from a long line of businessmen, so Melvin Branovan knew a few things about making a sale. He used to tell his son David: "When you think you've made your last sale of the day, make one more."
"He was very business-minded, a very hard work ethic," his son said of Branovan, who ran MB Promotions for more than 30 years. He died of natural causes on Tuesday at his summer home in Cape Coral, Fla. He was 71.
The business-mindedness was bred in the bone. His father, Morey, ran Branovan Shoes store on North Ave. near N. 3rd St. The family lived above the store.
His uncle Max also sold shoes. He started the Max Branovan Shoe Company in 1928, specializing in steel-toed industrial safety shoes.bagfilterchina,following with the development of business extensionand specialization, we booked Meiyuda as Trade Mark to produce kinds of Meiyudaenvironmental filter products.
Max's business slogan: "Toes aren't beautiful, but they're useful."
The Max Branovan company brought shoes to the workers via rail car and, later, the "Branovan Shoemobile," a semitrailer equipped with a fitting room, said David Branovan, of Mequon. They brought shoes to a wide range of local companies — A.O. Smith, Harley-Davidson, J.I. Case.
"They could try them on during lunch, or their shift change," he said.
Mel Branovan drove one of the shoemobiles while a student at Riverside High School and worked with the firm as head of sales until it was sold in 1981. That's when he started his own business,Want to wholesale the best cheap PP filter cloth? MB Promotions. He provided custom corporate branded items — apparel, pens, plaques and awards — to many of the same companies he'd worked with all those years with Branovan Shoe Co.
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Retire? "He never did," his son said. "He always said, 'I don't want to let anybody down.' He said it kept his mind young."
But if you think Mel Branovan was all about sales, you'd be wrong.
He also was known for his love of pizza — he could scout out the best pie in any city he visited — and he liked to make pickles.
Just before he died, he was getting ready to make a batch of Grandpa Mel's Famous Pickles. "He was all excited," his son said.
He'd gotten a recipe for kosher dills years ago and became known for turning out crocks of them at his Fox Point home. "He'd have an assembly line. We'd make pickles in the basement," his son said.
He loved spending time on his boat, "The Sunny Side," while in Florida. "He liked to dance, he loved being out. He wasn't a reader," his son said with a laugh. "He was always busy."
David Branovan said he learned this lesson about the business of life from his father: "Just enjoy it."
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