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<\/em><\/p>\nIn the photo above is myself, left, with the Geigers – Peter, Jeff, and Gene (president). <\/em> Geiger is a fourth-generation company that was founded in 1878 – the same year that Thomas Edison produced the first light bulb. Brothers Andrew and Jacob Geiger hung out their shop’s sign a little more than a decade after the Civil War – selling novelties, printed calendars and other printed executive gifts.<\/p>\n On top of their love for ad specialties, Raymond Geiger, father of Gene Geiger, who is the current president today, developed the Farmers\u2019 Almanac<\/a> with his brother, Frank O. It contained advice on weather, gardening, planting, astronomical phenomena, and its yearly collection of maxims and advice. Raymond served as editor for 60 years \u2013 and currently, Peter, Gene\u2019s brother and an integral part of the organization, is the editor.<\/p>\n In the workplace, Geiger established a credo they call the “Geiger Way”, consisting of nine points that provide a boilerplate for the organization\u2019s culture and focus on quality, continuous improvement and giving back to the community.<\/p>\n The Geiger Way is all about respect: for employees, their sales force, their vendors, and their clients.<\/p>\n There is also a two-fold support system that aims to share profits and to always invest in the company to update equipment and facilities.<\/p>\n Geiger has worked hard to disintegrate divides between owners and employees, and several non-family members hold significant positions of influence in the company. Owners recognize the strengths of employees, allowing them to grow.<\/p>\n The company’s greatest accomplishment in 2006 was the successful transition of the Forrester-Smith acquisition. A great deal of planning went into making this transition as seamless as possible, and all salespeople from Forrester-Smith have stayed with Geiger. No easy feat.<\/p>\n There are more stories, and I\u2019ll be posting two more soon about the other family business award-winners.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all of this year\u2019s winners \u2013 you can see the full list by clicking:<\/p>\n http:\/\/asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/EducationAndEvents\/SpiritAwards\/winners.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n To see photos from the Spirit Awards event, click:<\/p>\n www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/EducationAndEvents\/SpiritAwards\/photos.asp<\/a>. You can also watch video interviews from three other winners who share their thoughts about what drives their success \u2013 just click the links in the box called \u201cLive from the floor\u201d, near the top of www.asicentral.com<\/a>. And for fun, here are some pictures from the show\u2026With Jay Leno – who was hilarious during his Jay Leno LIVE! event:<\/p>\n With ASI Show<\/em> president, Matthew Cohn (center), presenting Jay Leno with a token of our appreciation:<\/p>\n And enjoying meeting with clients on the floor:<\/p>\n -TA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re back from the 2007 ASI Spirit Awards at the ASI Show Las Vegas \u2013 where the show delivered on our projection of over 3,700 attendees \u2013 and this year\u2019s Spirit Awards ceremony was more exciting than ever. In addition to celebrating innovative advertising and outstanding customer service and honoring the fastest-growing suppliers and distributors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClick here<\/em><\/a> to watch a video interview of Gene after accepting the award.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Jay_Tim_FINAL.jpg\")
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