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Medium Manufacturer Category: Eggers Industries
The "Louisville Slugger" baseball bat is introduced. Montgomery Ward issues a 240-page catalog offering nearly 10,000 items. The first Dow Jones Average appears in the Afternoon News Letter Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is released. The world's first roller coaster opens at Coney Island, New York. Quaker Oats becomes one of the first food commodities to be sold in packages. The Washington Monument is completed.
The year for each of these events was 1884 – the year that Eggers Industries was established. Founder Fredrick Eggers had a vision for a high-quality, custom veneered products manufacturing operation.
Eggers' products include conference tops and veneered components, door frames, flush doors, architectural paneling and veneer matching, specialty glass, and rail doors. The company also provides curved panels and custom components. It offers its products for various markets, including corporate, education, government, healthcare, hospitality and the elevator industry.
To continue to stay competitive, Eggers developed a visionary company process called "The Eggers Way" that involves a set of core values to drive the business. Some of the values include balanced responsibilities, continuous improvement, honesty, integrity and success sharing.
A primary component of Eggers success is its strong customer relationships. A key customer program rewards customer loyalty based on annual sales volume. Additionally, the architectural and design community are invited to attend Eggers Institute, a three-day educational training program.
Eggers utilizes green materials including those for the Leadership in Environmental and Energy (LEED) program. It meets or exceeds all of the established quality wood product standards and offers materials that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as coming from well-managed forests.
Today Eggers continues to be privately held and has been honored for the past three years by Deloitte & Touche as part of the Wisconsin 75 program recognizing the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the State of Wisconsin. The company has three locations in Northeast Wisconsin that include 650,000 square feet of manufacturing space – 320,000 of that space located in Neenah. It employs more than 481 employees, 259 of them at the Neenah plant. This location has been a finalist for the Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award eight times since the year 2000 and won the award three of those times.
The Neenah location is involved in community by supporting area food pantries, Adopt-A-Family for the Boys & Girls Brigade, Make-A-Wish Foundation and the United Way.
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