Geiger Bros. - Introduction

Introduction

Mount Hope Avenue
Lewiston, Maine 04240
U.S.A.
Telephone: (207) 755-2001
Fax: (207) 755-2422
Web site: http://www.geiger.com

Private Company
Founded: 1878
Employees: 438
Sales: $119 million (2002)
NAIC: 323110 Commercial Lithographic Printing; 323119 Other Commercial Printing; 323121 Tradebinding and Related Works; 424920 Book, Periodical and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers

Geiger Bros., founded in 1878, is the largest privately held company in promotional advertising and the largest manufacturer of time planners in the United States. Managed by its fourth generation of siblings, Geiger manufactures, supplies, and distributes calendars, diaries, executive gifts, and specialty advertising products. Geiger offers over 25,000 promotional items from more than 5,000 suppliers through its independent sales force in over 20 offices in the United States and Puerto Rico as well as online catalogs. Geiger's major corporate clients include Aramark, ACE Insurance, Warner Bros. Home Video, Boy Scouts of America, Princess Cruises, and Mattel. Geiger has a wholly owned direct mail promotional company called Crestline and also owns Geiger-Donnelly Marketing LLC, a promotion agency based in Boston, Massachusetts, that services large accounts. Since 1935, Geiger has been the exclusive distributor of the venerable Farmers' Almanac, a publication that dates back to 1818 and is the second oldest almanac in the United States. The Farmers' Almanac has a readership of 1.2 million through retail store sales and 4.5 million through promotional business giveaways.