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          July is our Founding month. I made my first sale on July 20th, 1987. 23 years later we are still  in business. We have had many locations since that time where I worked out of my rented house in San Mateo, California. Jeez I think about those early years and begin to really appreciate all that has happened over the years.    

          Rick Gentry our current Executive VP , was the first employee hired almost 22 years ago. Next came Stu Zins our venerable jack of all trades, in the fall of 1989. For the next 20 years we have hired and then seen many a wonderful individual leave the company. Many have made Quickscrews a better company and yet they have moved on to better their own lives for themselves.

       Today we are looking in the mirror and realize we look like the company we were over 10 years ago. Our sales have retracted to that point and so has our employee base. Rick, Stu and I handle all the sales functions. Stu also supports purchasing as the domestic buyer for our company. Rick is heavily involved in trade shows and working with the distributors sales staff. We all cross train and do whatever it takes to get the job done. We are fortunate that our two warehouse managers, Alex and Lewis have been with us many years and have quote successfully manged their respective warehouses with great skill and diplomacy. We appreciate all the long term Quickscrews employees, as we begin to enter a new era.

            This summer is the first time that my 3 boys are working for the company. My eldest Jared who will be a junior at Cal Poly in SLO, is working in our marketing area redesigning the catalog and producing a year longs supply of creative e-mails to send out to all of you. My other two boys; Mike and Aaron are working in accounting and customer service respectively. Both of them are seniors in high school. New blood helps invigorate our company we welcome all of them.

Greg Wiener

Founder

Quickscrews International Corp.

Over the past 20 years we have seen the development of an entire industry. 20 years ago the choices for screws for cabinet and furniture makers was extremely limited. You were either buying a tapping screw or a drywall screw, neither of which were intended for use in wood. Although those types of screws worked the products themselves were not intended or designed for those woodworking applications. As the woodworking industry evolved so did the use of varied and different materials. The introduction and expansion of man made materials such as MDF and particle board, along with the expansion of a large variety of soft and hardwoods, required different thinking when it came to fastening products for the industry. The fasteners on the marketplace had to change. The introduction of heat treated coarse threaded screws was a major improvement. Woodworkers would finally be introduced to a quality product line that met their demanding needs in the area of joint fastening and cabinet construction. The next evolution surrounded the need to insure that all hardware being used would or could have an appropriate fastener to attach to again a wide variety of man made and wood species. Another difficulty that still remains today is the fact that hardware manufacturers have not standardized the holes in hardware which have identical purposes, thus the need for a larger selection with multiple head styles of screws. (more…)