Dave Alaimo Email & Phone Number

Experienced President with a demonstrated history of working in the arts and crafts industry. Skilled in Leadership, Management, Sales and Marketing Strategy, New Product Development and Customer Service. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Economics from Denison University.

Listed skills include Entrepreneurship, Ceramic, Marketing Strategy, Sculpture, and 14 others.

• President

  Gare, Inc.

  Jun 1985 - Present

  Founded in 1950, Gare Incorporated is the leading designer, manufacturer, marketer & supplier of ceramic bisque, glazes, tools and kilns to the paint-your-own-pottery market as well as schools, traditional and commercial users of ceramics worldwide. As an owner of our Family operated company, we pride ourselves on great designs, quality and service allowing us to provide our customers with the best value in the business.With over 100,000 square feet of office, manufacturing and inventory space, we have an in-house art, design and sculpting team which develops and sculpts over 80 new, unique ceramic designs annually. Once our designs are approved we partner with factories around the world in the U.S. and overseas who manufacture our ceramic bisque designs for us. We also develop and manufacture a full line of ceramic underglazes, glazes and coatings for our customers at our factory.With a great team of experienced sales, customer service and shipping, we ship over 99% of our orders within 24 hours and have an order fill rate of over 98%.In addition to our manufacturing and warehouse facility located 45 minutes outside Boston in the town of Haverhill, Ma, we also have a warehouse facility on the west coast near Los Angeles to quickly service our West Coast customers.