Before 2007, Tom Sega was a sales and marketing man in the paper, pulp, and paper manufacturing machinery business for over twenty years, and he traveled a lot. “For my complete career I've been a road warrior. I had traveled, some years, 30 weeks a year; and when you travel that much you get pretty particular about the gear you carry whether it's a briefcase, an overnight bag, … [Read more...] about Briefcase Malfunction
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Bringing Back The Iconic Folding Chair Of Summer
If you were once young enough to spend your summers with the classic American lawn chair in the background, you’re probably old enough now to get annoyed pulling yourself up out of the current deep-pocket camping chairs. The bad news is, you’re not getting any younger; the good news is, your chair is back. Back in the 60s and 70s, US-made lawn chairs were everywhere, and … [Read more...] about Bringing Back The Iconic Folding Chair Of Summer
Home for Christmas For Good!
It was a watershed moment for Paul Parker in 2011; he was just back from another business trip - 33 hours of travel each way for two days of meetings in India - when he looked over the Christmas decor in his South Carolina home and considered the wrapped presents for his two sons and realized, ‘I don’t know anything that’s here that I gave the boys.’ Worse, he worried his own … [Read more...] about Home for Christmas For Good!
Three Men in a Tub: A Fishing Story About the Weather
When you’re on a canoe fishing trip up in the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota and several portages from home, a change in weather can really throw you for a loop. Grant Sega knows first hand. He’s now the Vice President at Spring Creek Manufacturing after his family purchased the company in July of 2017. But a few years before that he was a customer, and he’s glad he was. … [Read more...] about Three Men in a Tub: A Fishing Story About the Weather
Big Idea, Big T-Shirt
Goodwear USA had been in business near twenty years when Founder and CEO Stephen Liquori got one of the oddest requests for a special order. “I got a phone call one morning from a guy who said, ‘I need a size 10X t-shirt.’” “I’d been in the business a long time and I thought, ‘Well this is maybe one of my friends calling me to tease me a little bit,’ but I asked him, ‘Well, … [Read more...] about Big Idea, Big T-Shirt