One-On-One With Valpak's David Fox

Another hurdle we had during this transition was continuing to run the business at two other plants while maintaining production volume at the same pace-- 45million envelopes out the door every month. So, as we were ramping up production, we were running three different plants at one time--a huge challenge. One more challenge, one of those facilities was our plant in Elm City, NC. We were planning to shut that plant down, but didn't want to put 400+ people out of work. Fortunately, we were able to work out a deal with another company that bought the building, purchased the equipment and employed the workforce. Because that area had already been hit hard with other plant closings, textiles... automobile... what we didn't want to do was lay off Valpak employees for three months and then ask them to come back.