Grant Obermier, part-owner Rainbow Printing of Sussex, was Rotary’s guest speaker on Sept. 21, 2009. Grant was a former auditor with the Irving group for 11 years before joining the family business. Rainbow Printing was started by his father in 1985 in Fredericton and moved to the family home location of Midland in 1988 and eventually to the more central Sussex location approximately 15 years ago.
It gradually expanded from a mom and pop business to employ 12-15 people as it is now. It is one of a very few family-owned full-colour printing press businesses today.
Their business has grown significantly outside of Sussex and N.B., and they presently do considerable volumes in the eastern and southern USA. A lot of this growth is attributed to the security paper products such as cheque printing, secure prescription pads, bus passes etc.
Rainbow Printing is focusing on becoming greener with new methods such as a chemistry-free process.
An interesting presentation with a good question and answer period. Bob Kimball thanked Grant on the Club’s behalf.