6.3 EDSR 10-17-2016 - Laserfiche WebLink

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(Apex) was founded in January of 1998 as a single person business providliing embroidery programing services to apparel decorators mainly in the Midwest. In 2001, Apex added one employee, a (laser cutting system, and began offering laser material cutting services (applique cutting) as an expansion to the programming services that we offered to our embroidery customers. Apex steadily grew its applique cutting and programming business until 2008 when the embroidery industry was seriously jolted by the economic downturn, of the great recession,. In 2009, as a response to market changes, Apex expanded our prodluct selection and began offering heat transfer materials wholesale as well as custom heat transfers to better diversify our product offerings and smooth seasonal sales peaks and valleys. In 2011, Apex acquired Starbi:rd, Inc., an embroidery programing (digitizing) provider that was in Plymouth, MN to both increase our embroidery programing capacity and also to free up time to further develop the business. Since 2011, Apex's heat transfer business has grown steadily and we added to our product mix custom rhinestone transfers, spangle transfers, and most recently screen printed transfers. Apex now employee 18 full time employees, and normally 2 or 3 part time high school interns during the school year of which quite a few have stayed with the company through their college years. Apex is known in the industry as an innovator and top quality provider of the products we produce and have done work for companies such as Ralph Lauren, North Face, Tommy Hilfiger, Harley Davidson, Warner Brothers, Abercrombie and Fitch, along with many more national brands.