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Article: MCKERNAN PACKAGING CLEARING HOUSE DISCOUNT, DELIVERY, QUALITY.
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- Household & Personal Products Industry
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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THE SURPLUS PACKAGING industry and McKernan are riding a hard-won, upward curve. In the last five years, the surplus company has grown from 20 to 50 employees and gross sales have almost tripled. Their Chicago warehouse has zoomed from 30,000 to 100,000 square feet. Foreign sales account for over 20% of their gross sales. They are open 12 hour days with a polished staff of
packaging professionals ever combing their massive database for new listings to offer world wide.
McKernan services theft customers through a monthly Clearing House Catalog, which lists over 7,000 different packaging components available. "This list is constantly changing," says Tim ...