Promotional Products Giant Blows Out Another Candle

Kingwood, TX, June 06, 2006 --(PR.com)-- 25-year veteran promotional products consultant, Ted Baida, announces that Geiger has reached a milestone by marking the company's 128th anniversary in 2006. Geiger is the nation’s oldest and largest privately held distributor of promotional products and goodwill programs, and exclusive publisher of the world-famous 190-year old Farmers' Almanac™. Ted, based in Kingwood, Texas, offers creative promotional product solutions through Geiger’s MidSouth division. 

From its humble beginnings as a small New Jersey print shop, Geiger grew into being a pioneer in what became known as the specialty advertising industry, and moved its headquarters to Maine in the 1950s. Today, Geiger continues to be family-owned and operated, and is one of the best known, most respected, and most stable companies in the promotional products industry. It is currently rated at number 5 with $135,000,000 in sales among the many thousands of distributors. (Promotional Marketing’s Top 50, May 2006; Reported by TNS Media Intelligence) 

As a Geiger sales partner affiliated with Geiger for fourteen years Baida is known for his creative ability. He adds, "I am proud to be associated with, and to have chosen, Geiger as my exclusive resource. Geiger is filled with helpful and caring people, for myself and my clients." Ted comes from a family that has also been associated with this same industry since the fifties, beginning with his dad back in his hometown of Miami, Florida. Others in the family are also in the business. His older brother, Marvin, is currently COO at a competing distributorship in Miami, and his nephew, Larry, is a regional sales manager for a manufacturer/supplier in Southern California.  

Besides the promotional products knowledge he had gained by assimilation from family, Ted's professional  background and education in Architecture has allowed him to offer his creativity and illustrative knowledge to his customers making sure they have well-conceived, planned, graphically pleasing, and successful marketing programs using well chosen and distinctive goodwill products, incentives, gifts and awards.

Headquartered in Lewiston, Maine, Geiger operates 19 divisional offices across the U.S., in Mexico and Puerto Rico, and is affiliated with more than 400 independent sales representatives nationally. The company also is an internationally renowned manufacturer of quality calendars and planners, and is the sole publisher of the Farmers' Almanac™; of which the Geiger name, as its editor, has been associated for over 70 years. Among the company’s most recent awards are the Margaret Chase Smith Level I and Level II Awards (Maine’s Total Quality recognition based on Malcolm Baldridge Award criteria), and the Maine Cornerstone Award for businesses that contribute to the local and state economies, as well as to their communities. If you’ve seen the FedEx, Caterpillar, Cigna, Aramark, and Dunkin’ Donuts’ logos on shirts, caps, mugs, desk products, or gifts, you’ve seen just some of their work. 

For questions or creative advice on YOUR company or organization's specific marketing and promotional needs contact Ted. He's there to help, and agrees that advertising is a gamble. "But even the turtle makes no progress unless it sticks out its head."

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