True Innovation

– is coming up with a product that the customer didn’t even

know they needed.

Defined.

WWhat made + makesthis business stand out?

The company has grown from a single product- innovation (street pole banners) to a full-service, design and innovation-oriented manufacturer of seven distinctive, visual display product lines.

Consort Display Group has always been recog-nized as being “unique within the visual display industry.” It’s a very diverse company that offers creative ideas and a strong focus on design, as well as innovative and diverse product lines. These products had no other model and are unique both within their industry and that they are sold globally.

Innovative Product LinesPioneer Thinking

Corporate Offices2129 Portage RoadKalamazoo, MI 49001(269) 388-4532consort.com

We have consistently created innovative products that fill customer needs – for which there are no similar products available on the market.

Consort bootstraps new ideas to life and subsequently supports their growth through acquisition of manufacuring capabilities and new product lines.

FlagTrax®

DisplayOne®

Podia®/SNAPSignTM

Mya®Abstracta®

WaterJet

Dori Pole®Bannerflex® Systems

WWhat sparked the founding of this business?

Inspiration – 1983 Kalamazoo, MI

By 1994: 50 states1,900 U.S. Cities Canada (all 5 provinces) MexicoUnited Kingdom

Roger M. Lepley, architect, created Kalamazoo Banner Works, (today Consort Display Group), based on a request from the City of Kalamazoo for vertical street pole banners.

The new company was the first to market this product, both nationally and internationally – and to manufacture(patented) banner brackets, designed to spill wind and reduce wind force on the banner and light pole.

In 1985 Roger introduced a specialty gift item (LunchNotes®), designed by KBW’s first employee Edward Tereshinski.

The vast popularity of LunchNotes(as seen on the Johnny Carson and Today shows), helped sell millions of foam sandwiches – enabling Roger to direct profits back, into the fledglingbanner company.

Production of LunchNotes alsoprovided jobs for McKercher Rehabilitation Center. Forty employees of the local nonprofit assembled, packaged and prepared the gift item for shipping.

1989 – Inc. Magazine named KBW as one of the nation’s fastest growing 500 private companies.

1983

Kalamazoo Banner Works

1984 1986 1989

Inc. 500!

1992 1998

2003 Podia®

2004 BannerFlex Airow®

2006 Dori Pole®

2007 WaterJet Services

2014 FlagTrax®

Display One® Abstracta®/Mya®

1985

LunchNotes® New Facility BannerFlex®

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