January 2006
Aldelano Receives National Honor as ‘Highest Caliber Minority Business Enterprise’
Aldelano Packaging Corp. recently received the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s (NMSDC) Corporate Plus distinction -- an unprecedented membership program for the highest caliber minority business enterprises which have the proven capacity to handle national contracts for major corporations.
NMSDC’s Corporate Plus program is designed to recognize minority suppliers’ national capabilities, bring them to the attention of all national corporate members, and expand their participation in our network, according to Jim Proctor, director, new business development at NMSDC. The council is a leading business membership organization founded in 1972 to increase procurement opportunities for minority businesses.
To receive the Corporate Plus honor, minority businesses need to be recommended by a national corporate member of NMSDC. Aldelano was recommended by Procter & Gamble, who has had a 26-year association with the packaging company.
According to Icy Williams, who works in Procter & Gamble’s corporate supplier diversity group, Aldelano has provided the company excellent value in a broad range of service offerings.
“Aldelano has been nominated year after year in the MBE Supplier of the Year category at Procter & Gamble’s annual Supplier Diversity Awards Breakfast. Al Hollingsworth has assembled an excellent management team who brings a competitive advantage and innovative solutions to P&G in the contract packaging and fulfillment service spend pool.”
“This is, indeed, a huge honor. We are delighted to be recognized by NMSDC,” says Al Hollingsworth, Aldelano’s president and chief executive officer who founded the company in 1968. “This is a tribute to the dedication and hard work of our employees and our partners.
Contract packaging companies like Aldelano are often hired by product manufacturers when there are limited production facilities and concerns about equipment investments, physical facilities, personnel training and more.
“We’re known across the country for taking on tough packaging and distribution-management challenges and finding ways to meet them – promptly, creatively, and cost-effectively,” Hollingsworth says. “We can provide all or part of the labor, equipment, and materials for our customers. More and more our customers are outsourcing other parts of their business to us as well. Aside from packaging, we provide warehousing and distribution, on-site manufacturing support and project staffing. We supply full-scale supply chain project management. We can go on-site to a customer’s facilities, or set up shop within 15 miles of where they are. We call it our ‘to-your-door-service’ program.”
Aldelano Packaging Corp. is one of the nation’s leading contract packaging companies with operations in five states -- Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jackson, Tenn.; Lima, Ohio; Albany, Ga., and Chino, Calif. In addition to Procter & Gamble, the company has counted Toyota, Verizon, Kellogg’s and General Mills as its customers and has been in numerous other co-partnerships.
The company, with its 1,000 employees, offers contract packaging services, which include shrink wrapping, assembly, “kitting,” re-packaging, display building and fulfillment. They have a materials division specializing in package design and display concepts and full procurement of packaging materials, such as corrugated boxes, folding cartons, shrink and stretch films and more. The company also provides warehousing and distribution, analytical laboratory services and on-site project staffing and management.
In 2004, Aldelano was granted Foreign Trade Zone status, which is a secured area within the U.S. where merchandise can be admitted without the immediate payment of customs duties or excise tax.
