Skip Bray, a 43-year industry veteran who first started working at former family-owned French-Bray Printing in Baltimore when he was 16 years old, says he’s enjoying himself career-wise now more than ever before. As the president of Modern Litho-St. Louis, Bray is leading an expansion effort into new market segments.
Building on Modern Litho’s acquisition of Midtown Printing in 2013 — followed by additional purchases of Trio Printing in 2018 and Mulligan Printing in 2020 — Modern Litho-St. Louis moved from a 20,000-sq.-ft. facility to its current 67,000-sq.-ft. plant about a year ago. The operation is located on The Hill, a long established Italian-American neighborhood dating back to the early 1800s.
The St. Louis operation installed a Mark Andy flexographic press to produce seed tags for a customer, which has proven to be a strong vendor partnership. “We did eight million seed tags in our first year,” Bray reveals, “and it’s largely recession-proof. Farmers will always need to plant seeds, no matter what the economy is doing.”
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