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The road to where Universal Card Solutions is today is long and storied. |
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1950's & 1960's As a print salesman, Edward M. Reif sold business forms and supplies incorporating United Business Forms in Chicago in 1965. At the same time, David V. Skillman was selling IBM computer punch cards and other commercial printing incorporating Dato Printing in Winnetka, IL. UBF relocated to Northfield, IL in the 1978. |
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1990 Both companies excelled in their areas of expertise until, Ed and Dave decided to merge the companies into Combined Printing Corporation in Northfied, IL. Combined Printing sold both business forms and commercial printing. It supplied everything from village stickers to park district catalogs to the famous Sears & Roebuck Catalog's inventory supply forms. |
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| 1992 Combined Printing purchases card personalization equipment and becomes a manufacture and brings in house many of the card programs it is currently offering. |
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| 1995 Combined Graphics is started to take over all Card and related business. Combined Graphics moves to it's first dedicated two thousand square foot facility in Northbrook, IL. |
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| 1996 Combined Graphics expands 100% into two neighboring facilities. One dedicated to warehouse and packaging. Both Doughboy and Kirk Rudy equipment is added to the complement to offer retail packaging. |
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| 1997 Two DataCard 7000s and two NBS Horizons are added for long run BlockBuster embossing projects. |
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| 1997 Combined Graphics moves to its second production facility, fifteen thousand square feet in Addison, IL. |
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| 1999 Combined Graphics announces a new sales initiative, Advanced Card Technologies Corporation. |
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| 2000 Thomas J. Breen is hired as General Manager. Tom, with a background in engineering and corporate experience with Rand McNally and Docu-Forms, was enlisted to bring new product offerings and leadership. |
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| 2001 TBCardWorks, LLC is incorporated and purchases Combined Graphics' assets. The company's direction is focused on continuous fulfillment types of projects. TBCardWorks.com is launched. |
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| 2002 TBCardWorks, LLC changes it's name to TBCardWorx, LLC. |
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| 2003 TBCardWorx moves to a custom designed facility in Wheeling, IL. |
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| 2006 CardWorx, Inc. purchases the assets of TBCardWorks. |
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| 2008 CardWorx ceases operations. |
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| 2008 Universal Card Solutions purchases the assets of CardWorx. A new web presence is launched. Web services are added to the product offering along with a revitalized sales initiative. |
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