Specialties Bindery — A Cinderella Story

But this $6.5 million, 85-employee trade services company, which is located in a 108,000-square-foot facility just outside of Washington, DC, in Hyattsville, MD, has a bit of a Cinderella story to tell—thanks in part to its COO.

Specialties Bindery was founded in 1971 by Ronald Ridgeway and Bill Schroder. Mark Lee and Joe McAllister joined the firm seven years later as partners. In the beginning, the operation primarily finished pamphlets, but evolved into a specialty house focused on mechanical and adhesive binding services before it was sold to Quebecor World in 1988.