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“Changing the name to Central Package & Display better described who we were and what we had become.” Haglund remembers the excitement the change gen- erated among the company’s employees and, significant- ly, among its customers. “When your customers see you moving forward like that, that’s a really good sign,” he says. “It gives a good feeling that the company will be around for a while.” A Family Business Always Being “around for a while” is important to Haglund. A devoted family man, he has always considered his family to be an integral part of the business, as well as its path forward. His son, Mike, is CEO and vice president of sales. He came full time to Central in 2001 after an early career in the scrap recycling business and, later, the packaging supply and fulfillment business. Like many offspring of box company owners, he worked in the business from an early age. “I started mow- ing the lawn over on Hiawatha Avenue,” Mike says, “and later maintenance and painting—the aesthetics—because it was all a wood building back then.” His early experience at Central did not guarantee him a future place, however. “When I graduated college, my dad says, ‘Well, you’re not going to come in here and work,’” Mike remembers. “Jim always worried about people’s per- ceptions.” Mike worked five years in the scrap recycling industry when a small local assembly company came up for sale. “I bought that company for $90,000 over a five-year period,” he says. Having his father’s entrepreneurial nose, he then bought out a local packaging supply business, The Box Stop. “We had our own facility, doing about $5 million in sales, and we were brokering boxes, too,” Mike says. “Then in 2001, out of the blue, my dad called. He says, ‘I want to get you involved in Central, so Central’s going to buy you out.’ I didn’t know I was for sale!” Today, Mike is firmly grounded in his role in the compa- ny. “As far as the title or role, yes, I’m CEO,” he says. “But I still oversee a lot of the sales. That’s what I’m good at, and that’s what I like to do.” Kristin Haglund, Jim’s elder daughter, joined the compa- ny in 2014. But her employment at Central, like Mike’s, was not guaranteed. “I started in drafting for an architectural firm right out of school. Then, I went to work for a small lo- cal government consortium that served as an information technology hub,” she recalls. There, she honed her skills for systems management and information technology, but her heart, she says, was not in it. Then in a chance con- versation, Mike planted the seed for her to come to work at Central. Kristin notes, “‘You need to make a move,’ he says. ‘You and I work well together, why not join Central?’” Kristin recalls approaching Jim with the idea. “I actually went to my dad to propose it,” she says. “He was bowled CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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