EPI Companies — On the Move

Business Is Booming

As the company grew, the work spilled into additional buildings until EPI swelled into seven plants. Business was booming, but it was clear to Woods that something had to be done in order to make operations less unwieldy and more efficient.

“You wake up one day and realize you have full-time drivers who do nothing but courier things from one building to another. You have CSRs and salespeople in transit all day long, driving back and forth,” Woods notes. “I started doing the math and concluded, first of all, that we couldn’t continue to grow this way. Secondly, we couldn’t be very efficient. So we put a massive restructuring plan into place that moved us into two buildings we didn’t even occupy a year ago.”