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whether we’re related by blood or not,” says Davis, who has a catered lunch delivered to the plant every Monday, a gesture begun during Covid three years ago. There are no plans to stop it. Another popular “benefit” is that every employee gets
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their birthday off. “We believe birthdays are special so we want our people to do whatever they want to do. They can sleep in if they want, go fishing or do whatever but they are paid for the day.” The celebrations continue and they are not shared only by the person or department responsible for the success, but by the whole company. “We recently achieved a pro- duction record on our Emba so it’s not just the Emba opera- tors that are celebrating, the entire company will celebrate Long time employee Joseph Dalton, left, and Andrew Bell.
as a team,” relates Bell, the consummate sales profes- sional. “If we have a re- cord sales month, a record sales week or record sales day, everyone is involved and we all celebrate our success together.” The PEAR Facts Matt Davis’s benefi- cence does not end with his Packaging Express family. He and his wife, Maggie, make it a point to give back to their commu- nity and not just monetari- ly. They came up with the idea of giving local artists space to create their art by carving out a high-ceil- inged area in the corner of the plant that was once
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Matt and Maggie Davis creat- ed the Packaging Express Art- ist Residency (PEAR) to give space to local artists.
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used as a storeroom for old computers and cabinets. As long as a local artist has a bona fide project and it’s not deemed offensive, they are free to use the room in the
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