Brian Grace Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Largest Packaging and Label Company in Iowa. We provide superior custom full service solutions since 1975. Grace Label Inc. offers a wide variety of consumer packaging including film, labels, shrink sleeves. pouches etc. Recently added state of the art digital roll to roll equipment. We also have innovative solutions for void fill dunnage bags.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Custom printing company specializing in commercial, flexographic and digital printing. Products include roll-fed packaging, labels, tags, brochures and catalogs. Utilize latest Indigo technologies to sell both narrow web products such as labels and wide format offering custom banners and signage. Covering the southeastern region targeting and developing.

Minneapolis, MN

• Privately held $300 MM Company specializing in large format signage, POP/POS displays, cartons, flexographic printing, fulfillment and e-commerce solutions. Calling on a wide variety of customers in the eastern United.
• Developed over $1MM in new business in less than one year.
• Sold five new accounts including two Fortune 500 companies.
• Successfully appropriated two major flexographic accounts from a competitor due to strong relationships.

South Bend, IN

• Third generation private owned printing company which produces commercial, flexographic and digital products. Sold to a wide variety of customers; prime and diagnostic labels, extended content booklets.
• Aggressively developed 15 new accounts in both the Midwest and East.
• Added over $ 2MM in territory sales in 4 years.
• In 2010, exceeded sales budget by 173%

Des Moines, IA

• Privately held flexographic company that specializes in custom pressure sensitive labels, roll film and cartons. In addition to selling new customers directly I also managed 2 sales representatives and 4 customer.
• Responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to grow the company from $2MM to over $7MM.
• Personally responsible for $3MM in sales and for managing 15 out of the top 20 customers.
• Directly managed 2 sales representatives and 4 customer support people.
• Developed marketing plan to successfully launch new product offerings, including roll film, pouches and cartons. These new products accounted $1.5MM in incremental revenue within 3 years.

Rochester, MN

• Sold and managed private label cheese programs to outside Kroger Company retail customers. Managed 20 key accounts including Fleming Foods, Dominick’s and Hy-Vee
• Sales growth of 8 - 14% a year

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Marketing, 3.4

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Bachelor Of Arts, Marketing

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