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fellow independents and the knowledge he has gained by virtue of their experience, especially in the association’s CEO Advisory Group, which he says have been instrumen- tal to success as a leader and owner of a successful inde- pendent sheet plant. “We’ve got a great group,” he says. “We meet a few times a year, visit each other’s plants, chal-
Packaging Express Art Residency (PEAR) for as much time as they need, whenever they want to use it. Multiple artists have used the space to create their art without the burden of having to pay rent and utilities for a studio. And what box plant worth its salt doesn’t have a Hobart M. Cable upright piano in the common area adjacent to its art studio? Davis saw it at a brewery in Wisconsin and he thought that it might “Instagram-worthy” addition to an area of the plant where employees can just relax, hang out and those who are musicians can practice or perform and where visitors who tour the plant will see things they have probably never seen in a box plant before. Like the vintage orange gondola car emblazoned with the Packag- ing Express logo of a smiling leprechaun. Or the massive working scoreboard reclaimed from a local high school gym Davis has mounted on a wall in his office. The Independent Advantage Fittingly, the theme of Davis’s tenure as AICC Chairman is the “Independent Advantage,” which he describes as “how we survive and thrive. It’s our edge. It’s part of what makes up our competitive advantage, but it is deeper than that. It is doing what other companies cannot do or are not willing to do. It’s how we operate our business and it’s the personal connection we must have with our employees and our customers.” Davis applauds AICC, the relationships he has built with
lenge each other and ask each other a lot of questions. At the end of the day, we all want the same thing for each other: to be successful.” As an AICC Emerging Leader, Andrew Bell claims the stellar networking and relationships he has built during his relatively short career in the corrugated industry have Lt. Col. Robert Roane, (USAF – Retired) mans the control cen- ter in the Packaging Express lobby with the phrases that in- spired him during his career in the Air Force.
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