NEWPORT, Ky – January 26, 2013: Steinhauser was presented the 2013 Maxwell Award from the Southern Region Printing Week Council on January 26th. Each year the council awards a market leader in the printing industry that has demonstrated technical proficiency, continued success, and forward thinking for a minimum of 15 years. In addition, the selected company should contribute to the local community and show exemplary conduct.

Steinhauser was established in 1905, in Cincinnati, OH by Albert Steinhauser. Known then as A. Steinhauser & Son, they offered lithographic printing, mailing, and copy services. Albert instilled integrity into his business practices, developed innovative solutions for his customers, and consistently delivered quality printing.  These values have been engrained in every generation of Steinhausers who have led this company in the past century and have secured Steinhauser as a respectable and dependable printer among customers and peers alike.

Through the 60’s and 70’s with Albert’s son, Wilbur, leading the company they began investing in new equipment, including a web press. After two years of experimentation, Wilbur was able to develop technology to print up to four colors on two sides and apply glue strips, scores, and perforations in a single pass. His perseverance to develop this technology set them apart from their competition.

In 1983 Robert Steinhauser, Wilbur’s son, took ownership of the family business, now located in Newport, Ky. Following in his father’s footsteps, Robert invested in more equipment and worked with customers and suppliers to develop new innovations in printing. The most notable innovation was becoming the first offset printer to run plastic in-mold sheet-fed labels.

When Tara Steinhauser Halpin and Trevor Steinhauser took ownership of the business as President and Vice President, respectively, in 2007 they became the fourth generation of owners but the first multiple interest owners in Steinhauser history. With over a century of family history firmly established, the sibling team set out to secure the legacy and future of the business in a challenging economy.

In 2008, Tara and Trevor boldly moved forward with their plan to become solely focused on printed packaging solutions, in doing so they sold their commercial offset business and equipment. Committing to this major strategic plan meant reinventing Steinhauser as they had known it for the past 100 years. This transformation included investing in additional flexographic equipment and an HP Indigo digital web press in 2010.

Everyone in the company is encouraged to look for ways to contribute and give back to the industry and community. Tara Halpin is involved in the PIA Southern Advisory Council and along with Trevor they volunteer their time to The Goering Center for Family and Private Business. Other employees contribute their time to the PIA Continuous Improvement Advisory Board, PIANKO Printing Week, Shingo Prize Board of Examiners, The Newport Citizens Advisory Council, and the American Marketing Association Cincinnati Chapter. Outside of industry contributions, each year the entire Steinhauser staff gets involved in supporting the local Brighton Center and the Newport Public School Adopt A Class Program. Through food drives, holiday giving, classroom activity involvement, and volunteering of their time, employees have a sense that they are truly giving back to the community.

Steinhauser would like to thank the Southern Region Printing Week Council for this incredible honor. Plans for the future include living up to the legacy of this award, which was inspired by William Maxwell and his commitment to excellence in the industry and community.

Media Contact:

Erin Skop

eskop@steinhauserinc.com

Phone: 859-491-7900 x235

Steinhauser was established in 1905, in Cincinnati, OH by Albert Steinhauser. Known then as A. Steinhauser & Son, they offered lithographic printing, mailing, and copy services. Albert instilled integrity into his business practices, developed innovative solutions for his customers, and consistently delivered quality printing.  These values have been engrained in every generation of Steinhausers who have led this company in the past century and have secured Steinhauser as a respectable and dependable printer among customers and peers alike.

Through the 60’s and 70’s with Albert’s son, Wilbur, leading the company they began investing in new equipment, including a web press. After two years of experimentation, Wilbur was able to develop technology to print up to four colors on two sides and apply glue strips, scores, and perforations in a single pass. His perseverance to develop this technology set them apart from their competition.

In 1983 Robert Steinhauser, Wilbur’s son, took ownership of the family business, now located in Newport, Ky. Following in his father’s footsteps, Robert invested in more equipment and worked with customers and suppliers to develop new innovations in printing. The most notable innovation was becoming the first offset printer to run plastic in-mold sheet-fed labels.

When Tara Steinhauser Halpin and Trevor Steinhauser took ownership of the business as President and Vice President, respectively, in 2007 they became the fourth generation of owners but the first multiple interest owners in Steinhauser history. With over a century of family history firmly established, the sibling team set out to secure the legacy and future of the business in a challenging economy.

In 2008, Tara and Trevor boldly moved forward with their plan to become solely focused on printed packaging solutions, in doing so they sold their commercial offset business and equipment. Committing to this major strategic plan meant reinventing Steinhauser as they had known it for the past 100 years. This transformation included investing in additional flexographic equipment and an HP Indigo digital web press in 2010.

Everyone in the company is encouraged to look for ways to contribute and give back to the industry and community. Tara Halpin is involved in the PIA Southern Advisory Council and along with Trevor they volunteer their time to The Goering Center for Family and Private Business. Other employees contribute their time to the PIA Continuous Improvement Advisory Board, PIANKO Printing Week, Shingo Prize Board of Examiners, The Newport Citizens Advisory Council, and the American Marketing Association Cincinnati Chapter. Outside of industry contributions, each year the entire Steinhauser staff gets involved in supporting the local Brighton Center and the Newport Public School Adopt A Class Program. Through food drives, holiday giving, classroom activity involvement, and volunteering of their time, employees have a sense that they are truly giving back to the community.

Steinhauser would like to thank the Southern Region Printing Week Council for this incredible honor. Plans for the future include living up to the legacy of this award, which was inspired by William Maxwell and his commitment to excellence in the industry and community.

Media Contact:

Erin Skop

eskop@steinhauserinc.com

Phone: 859-491-7900 x235

Across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, in the heart of Newport, KY, sits Steinhauser, Inc., a label company with a long, rich history. Its story dates all the way back to 1905, and it is a story of perseverance, adaptability and success. It’s a family’s story – a family that has triumphed in the face of tragedy, while reinventing itself without fear of the unknown.

Steinhauser is owned and run by Tara Halpin and Trevor Steinhauser, respectively its president and vice president, and also sister and brother. The company was started in 1905 by their great-grandfather Albert Steinhauser, when he opened a small commercial print shop in Cincinnati. Printing items such as government bonds, his business steadily grew. In the 1950s, Albert’s son Wilbur – Tara and Trevor’s grandfather – begrudgingly took over the company.

“Wilbur really wanted nothing to do with this business,” Trevor Steinhauser says. “It was actually his brother Harold who was being groomed to take it over, but then World War II came, and Harold got deployed and killed in action during the war. So Albert said, ‘Hey Wilbur, you’re up!’ And he wound up really enjoying the work.”

Despite Wilbur’s best efforts, Steinhauser’s business slowed down a great deal, but then country music star Hank Williams died. And while that certainly sounds like a non sequitur, in a roundabout way the singer’s death saved Steinhauser. Tara Halpin explains: “The company had been printing country music books that featured pictures of Hank Williams, and when he died, the book orders went from 200 per day to 5000 per day.”

Trevor Steinhauser and Tara Halpin

“That story has been told so many times, and while it’s hard to believe, it really did save the company,” Trevor adds. “Steinhauser then got back on its feet, got some recognition and began progressing,” he says, adding that a major milestone was Wilbur’s innovation of a re-moistenable glue strip for self mailers.

The sudden success led to investment in a couple of web presses and the company’s initial foray into the print packaging business, manufacturing end-bands for bars of soap. A precursor for things to come, the health and beauty market was a Steinhauser specialty.

Bob Steinhauser, Wilbur’s son and Tara and Trevor’s father, took over the business in 1983. At this time, the company started doing its first label jobs, one- and two-color sheetfed work. “We bought the first 4-color offset presses in the area, which we used to print and laminate labels, mostly cut-and-stack, glue-applied labels,” Trevor says. “We really had one packaging customer at the time, a large health and beauty brand. But it grew into us developing a new technology with them – in-mold labels. We were one of the first to buy sheetfed, waterless equipment, and we perfected sheetfed printing on plastic.

“We were also the first in the city to get a piece of high density polyethylene through an offset press. A lot of people at the time were doing gravure or rollfed. It took a long time to perfect, and we were pioneers with this technology.”

Fast forward to early 2004, when Steinhauser’s big beauty customer decided to change to pressure sensitive labels. “We had all sheetfed equipment. No flexo at all – we had never even done any flexo printing. So our father made a handshake agreement, with this customer saying, ‘If you buy this flexo equipment, you’ll continue with our business.’ So, in our 99th year, our father made the switch and invested in our first flexo press, a 10-color 16″ UV Comco ProGlide. And we made the transition flawlessly,” Tara says.

“This customer went through a total overhaul of their brand’s graphics, going from white in-mold to clear pressure sensitive. So as we got up and running with the flexo press, we redesigned their label and relaunched their brand, together with the customer,” Trevor adds. “It was a whirlwind, but it was a success. The Comco guys had said, ‘If you have good sheetfed operators and they have the mindset to change, you’ll be fine. And we had people that were excited by it, committed and ready to change.”

Transition

Times had changed for Steinhauser, and change was good. The company was in transition and moving forward. Bob Steinhauser had made the bold, successful move to position the company as a flexo label printer, and he was ready to step aside. In 2005, Steinhauser’s board of directors named Tara president and Trevor vice president, and Bob was to stay on as chairman of the board.

In the midst of celebrating its centennial anniversary in business, tragedy struck the Steinhauser family. Shortly after the shift in leadership, Bob Steinhauser was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. “This all happened the same month we were getting this brand new piece of equipment and changing our business. By making that decision, Dad had saved our company – after 100 years in business,” Tara tearfully recalls. “So during this whole transition, we’re taking care of our father who fought for 15 months before passing away.”

The year 2008 was another emotional time for the Steinhausers, as a business and as a family, for which this company are one and the same. Tara and Trevor had purchased the company from their mother and a trust in 2007. Due to an abundance of local commercial printers, the offset business became increasingly unprofitable. Unable to support both the offset and flexo operations, they opted to sell off the offset side and become solely devoted to labels and packaging.

Changing the business model from offset to flexo involved letting go of several employees, some of whom had been with the company since Wilbur was in charge.

A shrink sleeve inspector

“It was the worst day of our business lives,” Trevor says of losing the employees. “But it was also something we knew we needed to do. I think a lot of companies fail when they hang on to something that they think is going to work forever and they don’t change. We probably should have done it ten years before, but there is a lot of emotion involved. It was very difficult. When we made the transition to flexo, we tried to retain as many people as we could, but a lot of them didn’t want to do it.”

With the move, Steinhauser also went from having hundreds of customers to literally having just three. The company was truly reborn.

The Steinhauser Way

Despite the new Steinhauser being only four years old and still ramping up and growing its business, it has carved out a healthy niche for itself in the label and packaging industries. In addition to traditional PS labels, Steinhauser also has full shrink sleeve printing and seaming capability, and still prints in-mold labels.

Steinhauser’s core market is health and beauty, and the company also does a good amount of labels for food and beverage, as well as some household product and nutraceuticals work. They added a second Comco ProGlide in 2008, an 8-color, all UV press, also 16″. The pressrooms are sparklingly clean, incorporating Lean Manufacturing principles as well as safety measures such as a comprehensive matrix removal system.

Staying on top of the label industry’s dominant trends, Steinhauser added an HP Indigo 6000 digital label press in 2009. To accommodate the digital press, the Steinhausers built new a climate-controlled digital pressroom within their 36,000 square foot facility.

“We went digital to be able to answer to the just-in-time and short run demands of our customers. We have a large international health and beauty customer that also needs a lot of multiple language labels. We say, ‘Okay, we can print your millions of labels, but also when you need only 5000, we can do that too. The digital makes these jobs most efficient,” Trevor says.

To complement the Indigo, there’s a roll-to-roll AB Graphic finishing machine equipped with two flexo heads for foil and metallic printing. The Comco flexo machines can print up to three silkscreens.

Proud of their facility, the Steinhausers encourage customers – the majority of whom are local, small to medium sized businesses – to visit and observe the machinery firsthand, which usually seals the deal. “As soon as we get them here, it’s hard for them to say no,” Tara says. But the Steinhausers are perhaps more proud of the family atmosphere that they impart to both their customers and employees.

“The culture here is family first, with an emphasis on communication,” she says. “We start each week with the ‘Steiny Scrum’. (Tara is a former rugby player.) We take ten minutes to discuss all of the things that happened the week before, and we give everyone a chance to voice any concerns they have. We’re just trying to get everyone on the same page. For example, we recently had a meeting where our operations manager discussed with the staff what it costs to run a label plant. We talked about how much rolls of material costs, plates, etc., so they have an idea about the cost of label waste.

Steinhauser’s AB Graphic digital finishing machine

“We’re out there on the floor talking to the pressmen. We want their input on how we can do things better. And we discuss with them and make clear what our customers expect, and also get them involved with any new prospects we have. We try and make everyone better,” Tara says.

Since they were kids, Tara and Trevor have been involved with every facet of the company, such as customer service, sales and marketing. Today, they’re both actively involved in sales. The Steinhausers also like to partner with their customers’ packaging projects right from the get go. “We want to be involved. If you’re planning on doing a packaging re-launch in a few years, show us. And if there’s something we need to do R&D on, then when you’re ready, we’re ready,” Tara says.

Marketing is an area where that they’ve started paying special attention to. Steinhauser recently added a full-time marketing coordinator. “We’d never had a dedicated marketing program before,” Trevor says. “But when we got into digital, one of the resounding themes was that you’ve got to have a marketing program to capitalize on all the small business prospects out there.”

Steinhauser recently got some great exposure when it was featured on “Manufacturing Marvels” – a two-minute television segment that aired nationally on the Fox News Business Channel. The short film, which is also on YouTube, takes an educational look at the company’s label printing and packaging operations.  The company is also certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the US.

The Steinhauser motto is “Passion for Packaging.” Tara and Trevor are passionate about what they do and thrilled with not only the dynamics of the label industry, but also the people. Relative newcomers and now TLMI members, they’re enjoying the industry’s networking and collaborative opportunities and have an eye toward continuous improvement and future growth – four generations and 107 years strong.

See the article here: http://www.labelandnarrowweb.com/issues/2012-09/view_features/narrow-web-profile-steinhauser-inc/

Located in the greater Cincinnati area, Steinhauser provides premium packaging solutions and maintains its presence in the packaging field by combining high end graphic capabilities with strong customer relationships. Staying involved through the lifecycle of the label with their customers solidifies them as a premier packaging solutions company.

Tara Steinhauser Halpin, President of Steinhauser, feels that their capabilities featured on Manufacturing Marvels™ highlight the quality and precision of their products. “We are very proud to be the featured company in the packaging industry on Manufacturing Marvels™. Steinhauser’s focus on flexibility, premium quality and strong customer relationships made us a top choice for this piece. American manufacturing is so critical to the success of our country and we are thrilled that our state of the art equipment, quality craftsmen, and products have been highlighted to the nation,” commented Steinhauser.

To view the Manufacturing Marvels™ footage of Steinhauser, please go to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABwDHZ1solQ&feature=youtu.be

About Steinhauser

Steinhauser is a Newport, KY-based packaging solutions manufacturer specializing in pressure sensitive labels, in-mold labels, flexible packaging, and shrink sleeves. Established in 1905, quality, service, and flexibility have been the foundation for this company for over 100 years. Steinhauser, a certified women’s business, is a fourth-generation family owned, and managed company who prides themselves on long term partnerships with clients and vendors, and the constant pursuit for operational and project management excellence.

For more information contact:

Trevor Steinhauser, Vice President

50+ YEARS IN BUSINESS

In 1905, Albert Steinhauser started Steinhauser, Inc. as a small commercial printing company in his garage with the goal of providing for his family and children. Steinhauser succeeded to a degree that perhaps he could not have imagined: today the company is led by brother and sister Trevor Steinhauser and Tara Steinhauser Halpin – the fourth generation of the Steinhauser family to lead the company.

Steinhauser, Inc. embodies the evolving nature of family business, as each succeeding generation brought new innovations and new ways of approaching the business. Albert Steinhauser ran a commercian printing shop, printing fliers, letterheads, direct mailers and bonds. In 1958, the business was passed on to Albert’s son Winbur. Wilbur developed and perfected a re-moistenable glue strip process that was used for credit card applications, season ticket mailers and anything needing to be re-sealed. In 1983, the company was purchased by Wilbur’s son Robert. Robert introduced the first 4-color sheet-fed printing press in Cincinnati, and in the ‘90s he led the charge in perfecting printing in-mold labels. Labels and packaging became a big part of the Steinhauser business.

Today the company is under the leadership of Robert’s children, who have continued the Steinhauser tradition of adopting innovative new technologies with the acquisition of the company’s first digital press.

A year after Tara and Trevor succeeded their father in 2007, they decided to sell the commercial printing division of their business and focus solely on labeling and packaging.

“We couldn’t compete in both, and our core strength was in packaging, “ said company President Tara Steinhauser Halpin. “The commercial printing market is extremely competitive, and creating new business was a challenge.”

The Steinhausers made the right decision – Halpin said the sale of the commercial printing division and the focus on packaging has improved the health of the company.

Having two people at the head of the company is a first for Steinhauser. However, having multiple directors hasn’t proven to be a challenge for the firm.

“The key is communication and making sure the leaders are on the same page,“ Halpin said. “My brother and I have the same vision for the company, and we were able to communicate that to our board of directors and really have them buy into the vision.”

With 19 employees, Steinhauser is a very family-oriented business. Halpin says she learned from her father that a leader can’t sit behind a desk in front of a computer all day – a leader must be involved in the lives of his or her employees. The Steinhausers make multiple trips to the production floor each day, getting to know their associates and their families and sharing in successes both professional and personal.

As for the future, the Steinhausers plan to double their business in the next five years. They also hope to see the entrance of the fifth generation into the family business.

Steinhauser is a certified women’s business enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. Steinhauser is also committed to sustainability through environmental stewardship, social responsibility and positive economic impact through local charities and nonprofit organizations.

AS IT CONTINUES DURING ITS SECOND CENTURY IN BUSINESS, STEINHAUSER INC. IS A “NIMBLE PARTNER” TO ITS CUSTOMERS.

Steinhauser Inc. (Newport, Ky.) has come a long way in its 105-year history in the printing industry. Although it was founded by Albert Steinhauser in 1905 as a commercial printing operation, it has evolved into a business that, today, focuses solely on labels and packaging. It is owned and operated by Tara Steinhauser Halpin, president, and Trevor Steinhauser, vice president, the fourth generation of the Steinhauser family to run the business.

The company’s evolution was slow and steady. In the 1950s, it branched out into label printing, primarily laminated cut-and-stack paper labels. In the early 1990s, it perfected an in-mold label process using waterless offset lithography to print on plastic film, reports Steinhauser. It added flexographic printing in 2005 And then, in 2008, the company sold its commercial printing segment to concentrate on package printing.

Nimble partner

Today Steinhauser Inc. produces pressure-sensitive (p-s) labels, in-mold labels (IMLs), flexible packaging, and shrink sleeves for markets including health and beauty, personal care, household, and food and beverage. It prints on a variety of p-s films and paper, HDPE and PP IML films, shrink film materials (both OPS and PVC), and multiple flexible packaging films.

The company has one facility with three presses and 19 employees. Its flexographic capabilities include UV and water-based printing using Mark Andy (www.markandy.com) Comco presses. Earlier this year, the company installed an HP Indigo (www.hp.com) ws6000 digital press to support its growing need for effective short-run printing.

According to the company’s Strategic Foundation, its core strength comes from being “a proven nimble partner caring about our clients’ brands.” Steinhauser says the company uses its small size to develop close relationships with its customers, while providing large company capabilities. “What makes us distinctive is that we have the technology of our larger competitors, but we are a small company that is nimble and able to turn on a dime to serve all of our customers’ requests,” he says.

Short-run trends

In recent years, Steinhauser Inc. kept a close eye on the developing trend for smaller order quantities, along with the role that digital printing would play in this endeavor. “We researched digital technology for four years,” reports Steinhauser. “We made the decision to make the investment to satisfy current customer needs, as well as to secure new business. Digital technology is a perfect complement to our flexo workflow. Many customers are going to a JIT (just-in-time) philosophy and digital technology allows us to produce these small orders.”

Having researched a number of different digital presses, the company settled on the HP Indigo technology because of the resources and support HP offers, which “fit with our operating philosophy,” notes Steinhauser.

In the five months that the company has been running digital production, it has discovered a number of differences from the requirements for its flexo operations. “Internal communication is very important. Because of the volume and frequency of orders, there are a lot of balls in the air,” says Steinhauser. “This is one area that we have had to work on because digital printing requires a completely different operating model/mindset than our current flexo production.”

Because of this, Steinhauser reports the company “had to tighten up our processes and add some technology to our MIS to make it more robust so we could produce jobs in a timely manner. Communication with our customers is key as it pertains to artwork and timing expectations. Having as much information up front regarding artwork (color targets, PMS equivalents, etc.) is imperative.”

Steinhauser says the company is still feeling out how to use its digital printing capability, but currently, the flexo print runs range from about 6,000 to 100,000 linear feet, while the digital operation has been ranging from 250 to 5,000 linear feet. “We expect this to increase as our digital production grows,” he predicts.

Are we finished yet?

Because of the fast turnaround capability afforded by digital printing technology, the supporting finishing operations are also under the spotlight. Steinhauser reports that the company runs a variety of operations on its finishing equipment. To complement the HP Indigo press, it added a servo-driven AB Graphic International (ABG, www.abgint.com) Digicon Series 2 system that includes die-cutting, cold-foil stamping, laminating, and two flexo print stations.

“We built our Digicon Series 2 to allow us to offer a wide array of post-printing capabilities,” he says. “We currently run a lot of metallic inks on our Digicon; we have two flexo heads on our unit so we can run a flexo color and apply a coating in one pass. We also run a lot of foil on our finishing device and have the ability to laminate.”

As with any new operation, especially one that uses cutting-edge technology, Steinhauser Inc. had to overcome a number of hurdles. “We experienced some growing pains pertaining to reinsertion of jobs multiple times through both the Indigo and the Digicon,” reports Steinhauser. He credits both internal and external resources for overcoming any obstacles. “We have very skilled craftsmen in our digital department, so our prepress and finishing difficulties have been overcome very quickly.”

Steinhauser says his firm is more than satisfied with the finishing operation to date. “The quality and precision that this unit offers has allowed us to produce some amazing graphics,” he says. “We do not have additional finishing units at this point. The Digicon is keeping up with the Indigo with no problem.”

Going forward, Steinhauser sees a continuation of the trend toward smaller print runs. “Digital will continue to grow and gain market share as customers’ needs become more time-sensitive. Many customers are not interested in carrying inventories like they have in the past. Digital technology is a very cost-effective way to accomplish this and, many times, it is the only way.”

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     Newport, KY, March 3, 2010:  Steinhauser, Inc. announces the purchase and installation of a Hewlett-Packard Indigo WS6000 Digital Press (www.hp.com).  The WS6000 offers cost-effective production of short and medium run lengths that deliver superior color quality with the use of mixed spot inks and 4-, 6-, or 7-color process simulations.  Powered by EskoArtwork (www.esko.com), the color kit assures excellent color matching for the most demanding brand and color requirements for labels and packaging. 

     Additionally, a servo-driven Digicon Series 2 finishing unit with die cutting, cold-foil stamping or laminating plus two flexo print stations from ABG International (www.abgint.com) complements the WS6000 and provides additional capabilities for digital print finishing.

     Steinhauser, Inc. specializes in high-end graphic quality pressure sensitive and in-mold labels for the Health & Beauty, Food, and Specialty Consumer Goods markets.  The addition of the WS6000 to our existing Flexographic technology allows opportunity for portfolio expansion with both short and medium run length labels, flexible packaging, shrink sleeves and folding cartons.

About Steinhauser

     Steinhauser, Inc., established in 1905, is a fourth-generation family owned and managed packaging printing company, and is a certified woman-owned business through WBENC (www.wbenc.com).  We pride ourselves on our passion and the constant pursuit for operational and project management excellence.

For more information contact:

Trevor Steinhauser, Vice President

GOERING CENTER FOR FAMILY & PRIVATE BUSINESS, FAMILY BUSINESS OF THE DECADE
More than one hundred years ago, Albert Steinhauser started Steinhauser, Inc. as a small printing company in his garage. Today, led by brother Trevor Steinhauser and his sister Tara Steinhauser Halpin, the company has successfully been transferred through four generations of family members. Despite being a small business, with only twenty-two employees, Steinhauser, Inc. has the capabilities and knowledge to compete with bigger competitors, bringing in sales close to $7 million in 2008.

Steinhauser’s mission is to “ensure its future success and existence by contributing to the success of our customers by providing them with state-of-the-art Technology, Customer Service, Craftsmanship and Quality; creating a healthy and secure work environment for our employees; following the best practice principles of our industry; and being a charitable and environmentally responsible corporate citizen.

Steinhauser considers its greatest accomplishment over the past decade as having a successful transition from the third generation. Today’s generation is the first to have two owners. However, according to Trevor Steinhauser, “having multiple directors really hasn’t changed the dynamic of the company. My sister and I get along well – we have good communication and the same goals and objectives.”

Despite being the fourth generation of the Steinhauser family to run the business, Trevor claims there was really no pressure growing up to be involved in the business. “We were always involved in working in it, but choosing to work here was always what we wanted to do.”

Mr. Steinhauser believes that the business managed to survive for over a century because of the company’s values, integrity, and common goals, along with having good succession and transition planning. “This has never been a place for dictatorship. We foster teamwork. There are a lot of people who you can learn from in the business world, and we have learned a lot from opening doors to our employees,” he states.

Trevor and Tara lost their father to cancer in 2006. With the help of their outside Board of Directors and the Goering Center, they managed to overcome their loss and focus optimistically on what’s next for Steinhauser, Inc. As co-presidents of the company, they sold a non-profitable division of their business and now focus on premium packaging solutions for the health & beauty, food & beverage, and household industries. In the future, the firm plans on having multiple children involved for the fifth generation. They also hope to see their business double in the next five years.

Recognized as a corporation that is committed to supplier diversity, Steinhauser, Inc. is certified as a women’s business enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S. Tara has also served as President of the Episcopal Church Women’s Group for the past four years while Trevor is an active member of the Ft. Thomas Lions Club.