Coming off his company’s record year for revenue, Leslie Doggett remained philosophical, if not optimistic, about addressing the twin challenges of a pandemic and plunging oil prices.

His company, Leslie Doggett Industries, was Houston’s ninth-largest private company by revenue last year. It grossed $1.8 billion in 2019 on the combination of 20 percent organic growth and the acquisition of companies such as Lone Star Ford (now Doggett Ford) in 2018 and the 2019 purchase of El Paso-based heavy-duty trailer dealer Truck Enterprises and the Great Dane Trailer distributor for the El Paso, Laredo and McAllen/Pharr region.

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