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Visiting Western New York in July
Posted by Dana Ritchie on July 21st, 2008
Last week Dana and I took the opportunity to visit with a number of our vendor partners in the Buffalo NY area. Dana was there with his family visiting Niagara Falls and I drove from Boston to join him. We met with one of our distribution partners, Bluestar who has a regional office in West Seneca NY. The local manager there is our old friend Mike Moscato.
We also got the opportunity to meet with Kathi Phelps at IIMAK, the ribbon manufacturer, who graciously took us to lunch. PaladinID and IIMAK have a relationship that goes back to when Dana started the company. We got an opportunity to tour the plant and meet the sales and marketing staff at headquarters in Amherst NY.
We also met with Jeff Bertrand at JH Bertrand in Buffalo. JH Bertrand is a manufacturer of expansion labels – they are the labels that attach to products and fold out to accommodate a lot of information. We are excited about the prospects for this new product line as it should be a good fit for a number of our existing customers.
Then it was back to the Falls for Dana so he could continue his family vacation and 7 hours of windshield time for me back to Medfield on I-90.
MassPlastics Show
Posted by Dana Ritchie on March 31st, 2008
PaladinID exhibited at the MassPlastics show at the Royal Trade Plaza in Fitchburg MA on March 26 & 27. The show is aimed at the large number of plastic manufacturers and plastic component suppliers located in the central part of the state. Although not as numerous as they once were, the Leominster/Fitchburg corridor is home to a high concentration of businesses in this industry. The show was reasonably well attended with a steady flow of foot traffic on both days. Many of the exhibitors who were located near the PaladinID booth told us that they has been attending this show for many years and that from there many were headed to a similar show in Baltimore.
We were ably assisted by three of our reseller partners. Neal Berenson of Datalogic served booth duty with us on Wednesday and took us to dinner at a great place called the Monument Grill located, of all places, in Leominster. Thanks Neal! Ed Riley of Honeywell Imaging helped with demo gear and his affable presence on Thursday. Thanks Ed! And Jay Lauer from Opticon pitched in with some marketing funds.. Thanks Jay!
And lastly, thanks to Mike Moscato at our distribution partner Bluestar for making available a Datamax M class printer for display.
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