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Corporate Tour
Oh I love coming here and welcoming everybody to see what’s been in my life for the last 40 years and what kind of company our family’s built. We’re so proud of it. Welcome to US Merchants. Welcome to our inventory control area. This is where we maintain your inventory, so you can sleep at night and feel comfortable that somebody is watching your inventory 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Shawna do you have a Bill of Lading that you could give me that I can share with the people. Everything that leaves our building leaves in pristine condition where the carriers have to sign for a piece count, all the way down to the unit and they have to verify that everything that leaves our building leaves in absolutely perfect condition. Now our employees is what makes our operation so special to everybody. We have full time bathroom attendants in all of our facilities. We maintain pharmaceutical standards in cleanliness and we are very proud of our facilities and we are very proud of all of the employees that have worked for the company. Here we are in our tooling area. Which is a very important area of our company. We are very proud of the fact that we are a vertical operation. We do everything from start to finish. We pride ourselves in the way we finish the tooling and polish it to a very high degree in order to get a quality package where we can showoff your product. Here we are in the thermoforming area where we have the highest tech equipment that money can buy. We are very conscious about saving the environment and mother nature. Everything from recycling plastic and corrugated to having a solar farm on the roof. I am kind of a clean freak and as I go through every one of my facilities, I always check how we have been maintaining our equipment and the cleanliness throughout our entire operation. So I always do what I call the white glove test. As customers go you know that your product is in good hands when it’s in a US Merchants’ facility. Here we are in one of the areas where we are doing packaging on a particular type of blister card. We pride ourselves in our standards. We are very meticulous. Our employees do an excellent job in the way they not only package the product but inspect the product before it gets put into a pallet presentation and sent off to the customers. One example of this, is our butterfly shroud, which is a patented product of ours, which has made a big difference in the way product is retailed in the market place. Instead of shipping air, as products in the past did shipping on false bottoms, we created a butterfly shroud, which cuts the freight cost down by anywhere from 50 to 75%, because you can get approximately three times as much on a truck than you could in the past. So a butterfly shroud simply acts as a shipping shroud and when it gets into a retailers store he simply cuts the tape down, drops the flaps, and it makes a beautiful presentation. We handle products in every category, in every department in the retail market. Here we are doing clothing, foot wear, but we are involved in every category in the industry. Everything from health and beauty items, to hardware items, to seasonal items, to apparel, foot wear, sporting goods, electronics. There is no item including food items categories that we aren’t involved in doing business in. We are very versatile. Being automated gives us a very competitive edge and gives our customers a competitive edge against other competition that they face. It gives our retailers the opportunity to be able to custom package something at very affordable pricing. We manufacture storage containers. We are probably the largest or one of the largest in North America, but we pride ourselves on the quality, we have the highest quality in the entire industry. Our storage containers are NSF certified, which is the certification you get within the food industry. The quality is second to none. We pride ourselves as you can see, every item that comes off the line, is inspected for its quality. Innovation is very important to us, we developed and patented a collapsible crate. It’s able to carry substantial weight and it’s easy to store. All of us at US Merchants, thank you for taking the time to tour our facilities with us and we look forward to seeing you in the near future and being a good partner with you. Thank you again.