Southeastern Printing — Reeling in The Business

Mader cut his teeth in the printing industry 16 years ago in the silk screen realm, reproducing fine art on t-shirts for retailers. From there he formed a prepress house servicing both screen and lithographic printers.

“Southeastern was one of our larger clients in the late ’90s and they were looking for support in their prepress division while switching over to computer-to-plate production,” Mader recalls. “They also were searching for succession management. We realized that we could play well together and I took over as president in 2001. My family and I completed the purchase of the company from its previous owners by the end of 2004.”