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Keeping things in the family and family relationships are important to Zambon. His son, J. Ryan Zambon, is the General Manager of the company’s pack-out division and Weber’s Process Manager; his daughter Keira Zambon Bergvall is now the Accounting Manager. Ryan joined the company in 2012 following the start of his career in management consulting. “I went to under- graduate school for operations and information manage- ment, and worked for Deloitte & Touche,” he said of his ca- reer prior to Weber. “I grew up around the family business and worked in the office and on the plant floor over the years on summer breaks and holidays. When the business eventually needed some help in IT, I saw an opportunity to try to take what I had learned inside and outside of Weber to help improve the family business.” Keira Zambon Bergvall, for her part, started in 2015. Af- ter graduating from Villanova in 2014 she became a CPA and worked for the accounting firm KPMG. When Weber’s accounting manager announced her retirement, CFO Jim Zambon asked Keira if she wanted to become a part of the business. “Of course, I said ‘yes!’” she recalled. Other key players on the Weber management team include David de la Rosa, Vice President of Operations. A 40-year veteran of the corrugated industry, de la Rosa joined Weber in 2003 following a long career in production supervision and management with Owens-Illinois, Packag- ing Corporation of America and Southern Container. ‘Design Through Delivery’ How does a 129-year-old company continue to be suc- cessful year after year, generation after generation? “Our mission statement is ‘Design through Delivery,’” says Kevin Doherty. “Our best accounts are the ones who use us for all our strengths.” Those “strengths,” he says, are a 15-per- son sales force, a dedicated team of graphic designers, a co-packing facility, a permanent display division, and a mix of equipment that can satisfy the needs of its diverse mix of food and beverage, pharmaceutical, agricultural and in- dustrial customers. “I don’t think it’s all that common – even among AICC members – for a company to be able to cover such a broad waterfront,” he said. “You’re either making brown boxes or you’re making displays; you’re buying sheets or you’re making board; you’re involved in co-packing or you don’t touch it.” Jim Doherty III adds, “It goes back to my father’s man- tra: He didn’t care if it was a 50-lot or a 10,000-lot. As long as he could serve the customer, he was going to do it. I think that’s pretty much our philosophy; we do that to this day. We are definitely a sales-driven company.” An independent corrugator plant, Weber has a 98-inch Corrugator – a BHS wet end with a Fosber dry end – that produces, B, C and E flutes, as well BC and EB double wall. The company has a strong affiliation with and affinity for Bobst and Marquip Ward United (now BWPaperSys- CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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