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KAUKAUNA – Promotional marketing specialists at Eagle Graphics and Eagle Sign & Design are moving into their newly expanded facility, built to satisfy what Majority Owner Josh Hermann said is an increasing national demand for the companies’ comprehensive services.
Founded in 2001 by himself and his now-retired business partner Tony Nytes, Hermann said Eagle Graphics’ recent growth is the result of a boom among companies in search of a one-stop shop for promotional merchandise.
“Our real growth has been over the last five to seven years in [the] online company stores we build for medium to large-sized companies all over the United States,” he said. “We basically build an online store for their employees to order uniforms, company gear, promotional products, company swag, those kinds of things.”
With its online store service, Hermann said Eagle Graphics is capable of assisting customers in the design, production, purchasing, storage and delivery of branded products.
“We also provide our clients with marketing collateral [and] commercial printing – brochures, flyers, booklets, [etc.]… and do all the warehousing and fulfilling of these products,” he said.
Though the smaller of the two companies, Hermann said Eagle Sign & Design – co-founded by himself and his brother, Chris, in 2005 – is just as capable in providing customers with not only in-store signage but external marketing displays as well.
“We do share a lot of things between the two companies, especially customers – they feed off of each other,” he said. “The same customers that are looking for corporate apparel and promotional products are also, typically, the same customers who are looking for trade show displays, vehicle graphics, point of purchase displays and things like that.”
Providing services to clients and companies across the country, Hermann said many of Eagle Graphics’ biggest customers aren’t local to Wisconsin.
“We’re a national company that ships internationally,” he said. “Last year, we shipped to 45 different countries, [because we offer these] companies that have employees all over the world, one web-based, ecommerce store to buy logoed merchandise and all of the products are warehoused at our facility here… [taking] that burden off of our customers.”
Now, thanks to the recently completed 10,000-square-foot expansion, Hermann said he and his team – which includes Nytes’s son, Elliott, who came on as a minority owner about that same time he was retiring – can continue doing just that at an increased capacity.
“Honestly, we just needed more space for product flow – spreading out each department a little bit more so we have more room to work,” he said.
Increasing production, employee satisfaction
Several years before officially founding Eagle Graphics, Hermann said the business was a part-time venture for him and Nytes while they worked full-time jobs, which they later left to pursue entrepreneurship full-time.
“Tony was looking to go full-time, [and] I was looking for an opportunity as an entrepreneur,” he said. “We both felt this was an opportunity we didn’t want to pass up. So, we both quit our jobs back in 2001 and went full time [with Eagle Graphics].”
Though it “took quite a few years” to establish their client base, Hermann said Eagle Graphics has since enjoyed 10-15% annual growth – “which is a substantial amount given the size [of company] we are.”
“We always have lofty goals every year, and that’s something we wanted to continue doing,” he said.
Hermann said the company’s current facility – located at 1200 Prospect Lane in Kaukauna – was purchased around 2006 with an expansion following in 2008.
“October of 2008… we expanded from 7,000 to 14,000 square feet, and now we just added [a little less than] 10,000 square feet,” he said. “So, we have [nearly] 25,000 square feet here at our facility, currently.”
A vast majority of the facility’s new space, Hermann said, is dedicated to production.
“We need[ed] a large space for screen printing and embroidery, but we [also] do a lot of custom packaging,” he said. “All of our orders are custom-packaged for our clients’ employees we’re shipping [to], so our packaging department needed a lot more room.”
In addition to its packaging department, Hermann said Eagle Graphics’ receiving and “work-in-progress” areas were also due for an expansion.
“We also lease a full building in Wrightstown that is basically just a warehouse and fulfillment facility,” he said. “Then, we lease warehouse space within a local warehouse company as well, so we didn’t bring any of our warehousing [into the new space].”
Another priority of the expansion, Hermann said, was employee comfort – expanding both his team’s lunchroom and workspaces as part of the project.
“Our employees were working in some pretty tight spaces for many years,” he said. “We’re very fortunate with the team we’ve built. We’ve got a lot of people who have been here for many years and are looking out for the business’s interests, which is hard to find. So, we wanted to reward them [with] enough space so they could work efficiently and effectively.”
Eagle Sign & Design employees are also benefiting from the expansion, Hermann said, as the two companies share the Kaukauna-based facility.
No job too small
Hermann said there are several key benefits Eagle Graphics’ clients enjoy when utilizing both the company’s production and ecommerce services – the first being “logo integrity.”
“Many of our clients come to us and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got employees buying products from multiple different promotional product companies, and we get the logos back and the colors aren’t correct,’” he said. “They use us so their logo remains consistent no matter what product is being put on.”
That benefit extends to Eagle Sign & Design’s products as well, Hermann said.
“Marketing directors or HR directors… those folks are buying the same products that both [our] companies sell and are looking for a single source… so the logos and colors [on] their trade show graphics and displays match their marketing and swag items as well,” he said.
Hermann said clients’ online stores through Eagle Graphics also provide a central resource to purchase company-specific branded products.
“The companies use it as an HR tool as well, to reward employees,” he said. “They will award employees credit within the stores to use as a reward for a job well done, years of service or just a general uniform allowance for them to order gear.”
Hermann said Eagle Graphics’ warehousing and fulfillment services help clients avoid the hassle of having to order and store promotional apparel and merchandise.
“We’ve perfected our production to allow our clients to order on demand,” he said. “We will warehouse the promotional products… but when it comes to embroidered items – which is the majority of the items that we print on demand – we’re going to do these on demand so they don’t have to purchase a large volume of, especially, the apparel up front.”
For both Eagle Graphics and Eagle Sign & Design, Hermann said no job is too small – with a special dedication to serving small and local organizations, events, schools and businesses.
“More than anything, we said from day one, no matter our size, we have the same responsibility for every size client to take care of what they need,” he said. “We’re never going to tell a client they’re not big enough, no matter how big we are. We take every order, and we appreciate every order, no matter the size of the business.”
Remembering the companies’ roots, Hermann said, is paramount to ensuring they remain humble and continue to serve the community they call home.
“We’re community-oriented – we want to stay in Kaukauna,” he said. “As we continue to grow, we want to make sure that we remember our roots, and this is a community that has helped us build the business to where it’s at. That’s why we want to continue to expand here.”
For more, visit egpromo.com.
