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Article: A window to the future Maker of blinds, shades returns to private ownership
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2009
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By DORIS HAJEWSKI
Middleton -- Springs Window Fashions, maker of Graber and Bali
window products, is celebrating 70 years of business at the same
location in this west-suburban Madison community -- still family
owned, still making products here.
But the company has a history that is more complicated than those
basic facts imply. Over the years, the business, which started as
Graber Industries, has been sold twice, and only recently returned
to its original status as a standalone company with headquarters in
Middleton.
Springs Window Fashions is one of 76 companies being honored
Tuesday at Deloitte's annual Wisconsin 75 event for the largest
privately held firms in the state. Springs joined ...