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Article: Call of the season; The Swiss Colony grows from class project to one of the area's dominant seasonal employers
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2005
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It started out as a project for his college business class. It was
an idea definitely ahead of its time - scoffed at by some, billed as
just plain crazy by others.
Mail-order cheese?
But nearly 80 years later, Raymond Kubly Sr.'s curious business
plan is now a household name in the mail-order catalog business and
one of the tri-state's biggest seasonal employers.
As the holiday season heats up, The Swiss Colony Inc. is a hive of
activity. Thousands of employees are filling orders for everything
from cheese and sausage trays to furniture and home decor, all under
The Swiss Colony's expanding umbrella of operation.
"We start (hiring) in the early summer months and keep building
all the way to ...