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Baby Blue Chips: American River-PackageOne Inc.
Baby Blue Chips: American River-PackageOne Inc.
American River-PackageOne Inc.
Technology Enters the Fold
By Mark Larson
American River-PackageOne Inc. is in the packaging-materials distribution industry, which for years was driven by low-tech tasks: handwritten order-taking, basic box-making and printing.But to help it better compete for business, the six-year-old company diligently has plugged high technology into its operations, first with an in-house WiFi inventory system, and then with RFID, a cutting-edge scanner/tag system. Using such networked wireless systems, both to automate its core business operations and fold in acquisitions, has resulted in efficiency and fast-paced growth.
Sacramento-based American River-PackageOne has grown to $40 million in annual revenue, has 200 employees and expects to hire another 30 through 2007. The company recently invested $300,000 in two hires and new packing equipment. By the end of next year, company CEO and managing director Tom Kandris expects revenue to hit nearly $67 million.
“We differentiate ourselves in the marketplace by using technology that many competitors have yet to embrace,” says Kandris.
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Valley Healthcare gets 5-year VA deal
Valley Healthcare gets 5-year VA deal
Sacramento Business Journal - July 7, 2006 by Kathy Robertson Staff Writer
Valley Healthcare Systems Inc. has landed a five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide nursing staff to VA facilities in 13 states.The deal has a potential annual value of $5 million -- an almost 50 percent boost income at the Sacramento region's fastest-growing local company in 2005 -- but will depend on how many nurse placements Valley makes. Company officials put the value at more like $5 million over at least two years.
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Planting the Seed - Beck Ag Com reaps big growth with its agribusiness-farmer teleconferences
Planting the Seed - Beck Ag Com reaps big growth with it's agribusines-farmer teleconferences
Sacramento Business Journal - April 16, 2004 by Celia Lamb Staff Writer
Kelly Woodwick, a marketing manager for an agricultural chemical company, had to figure out how to introduce farmers to a new chemical her company plans to launch this year.
Because some growers have already used the apple growth-regulator as an experiment, Woodwick plans to hire Beck Ag Com Inc. to arrange a telephone conference and get those growers talking to each other.
Who better to pitch the product to other growers?
Beck Ag Com president John Finegan, who lives and works in Sacramento, calls this service "word-of-mouth marketing." Over the last six years his firm has set up 10,000 to 15,000 teleconferences for agribusiness and animal health companies.
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