Surack Enterprises

Surack Enterprises is the holding company of the American entrepreneur Chuck Surack, founder of the music retailer Sweetwater Sound, and the parent of the Sweet Family of Companies and the Surack Family Foundation. Beginning in 2010 Surack acquired and founded several businesses that later became its subsidiaries, among them the luxury car dealership SweetCars, the flight school Sweet Aviation, the eyewear retailer Longe Optical, Sweet Helicopters, Aviation Specialty Insurance and the Clyde Theatre music venue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In May 2022 Surack Enterprises acquired the assets of the Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, an American helicopter manufacturer based in Menominee, Michigan. Since 2020 its corporate offices have been in the Kaizen Center, the former Pizza Hut of Fort Wayne headquarters that Surack converted.