What do you do with your Saturdays? Over 40 Storey Kenworthy employees along with their families and friends spent last Saturday making one lucky home-owner’s day a little brighter. For the past several years, Storey Kenworthy has participated in Rebuilding Together. The Rebuilding Together organization brings people together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners and keep our cities and neighborhoods strong. For more information on how you can get involved, check out their web page at: http://www.rebuildingdm.org/.
Click the image below to see the slide show of the day and this amazing transformation.
As a furniture sales specialist, Dave has been helping Storey Kenworthy create and sell amazing work environments for clients of all sizes and backgrounds for almost seven years. He is an expert in listening to what a client wants and providing them with a beautiful and productive space for a budget that works for them.
Outside of work, Dave loves to be outdoors: boating, camping, softball, rock climbing or spending time with family and friends around his neighborhood. He is an avid Iowa Hawkeye Football fan. For him, Iowa vs. Iowa State is one to the best weekends of the year. He says, “Win or lose it’s always fun cheering on the Hawks.”
When asked if he had any advice for customers, Dave suggests, “Don’t be afraid to ask us questions. Furniture can be complex and overwhelming for some. We have a large team of furniture experts, designers and manufacturers that can help guide you in making the best choice for your environment.”
Many of you have asked where you can get on of those super cute PostIt Note purses you have seen on our Facebook page. Well now’s your chance! For a limited time with your qualifying purchase, you can grab one of these little cuties for your own. Click the image for details and the form.
Todd has been an Office Supply Sales Representative for Storey Kenworthy for the past 5 years. He helps his clients with office supplies, printing, promotional products and corporate apparel.
Todd says the close interaction with his great group of customers is his favorite part of my job. The challenge of consistently delivering excellence and a positive experience for his customers keeps him excited to go to work every day.
When not cheering on the Iowa Hawks, Todd can be found coaching his son’s baseball team or watching him play hockey. This year he gets to cheer on his daughter as well as she starts t-ball.
We asked if he had any advice for customers, Todd had this to say, “I support local businesses whenever
I can. We have great people and local businesses here in central Iowa. Let’s help each other out and do business with the people that we work, live, and play with whenever we can. It’s a win-win!” We agree.
Everywhere you look you see them waiting to be used. Promotional item purchases often are built around three basic questions: 1) Does the item fill a need? 2) Does the item communicate something? 3) Will the item stick around long enough to really make an impact? The promotional pen allows a “Yes!” answer to all those questions.
Simply put, people love receiving gifts. Pens range from inexpensive plastic to highly prized laser engraved metal all of which make a great gift to a potential client or business partner. Taking a few minutes to check out the various types of pens available and how they can help market your business is well worth your time.
It is now possible to get every color under the rainbow and with a variety of clips, barrels and tops. Whether used in unison with other corporate merchandise such as leather conference folders and notepads or given on their own, a pen is a promotional item with staying power.
So what’s the moral of this story? The swiftest sword in your marketing arsenal just may be the mighty promotional pen!
We get this question a lot and here is one way that we have been able to help our clients.
Depending on the size of your project, you may qualify for free shipping from the manufacturer to your project site. We call this a Direct Ship. Our installation crews still meet the trucks, unload and install your furniture for you. You get the same great service, but you save money by not having us receive the product at our warehouse and reload it on a Storey Kenworthy truck to deliver to your site. Since we are not “double handling” the product, it saves on labor costs and reduces additional risk of damage to the product. The direct ship option does take tighter coordination and flexibility with install dates (to coordinate with the trucking schedule from the manufacturer), but the cost savings are often worth the work.
The final piece of our 75th Anniversary puzzle was placed recently with the installation of a very special piece of commissioned artwork. During early discussions about how to celebrate this milestone in the Storey Kenworthy legacy, we came to the conclusion that a piece of custom artwork would be a great solution. We looked at works from several Iowa artists, and found the work of Mary Snyder Behrens especially intriguing. Her works of mixed media are very thought provoking and we were sure that she would be the perfect artist to capture the spirit of Storey Kenworthy and its past 75 years of business.
The result was even better than any of us could imagine. The triptych piece, which measures a total of more than 200 inches wide and 48 inches tall, greats clients as they visit out newly remodeled supply division in the 1333 Ohio Street, Des Moines location.
For a more detailed description and more photographs of the piece please visit the artist’s webpages at: http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/MSB/SKDM.html. If you would like to see the piece in person, we would love for you to stop in anytime.
For more information on Mary Snyder Behrens and her work, visit: http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/MSB/Home.html.
- John Kenworthy, President
2011 proved to be a memorable year in more ways than one. 2011 marked the 75th anniversary of being a 4th generation locally owned family business servicing the state of Iowa and beyond. It gave us the opportunity to celebrate the milestone event with our employees, share with our customers, vendor partners & community by contributing back to the community in a meaningful way through a year-long series of fund raising events for two designated local charities that have positively impacted the lives of our employees & community.
2011 was also a continuation of the Great Recession and ongoing economic uncertainty. Surprisingly, we witnessed the end of well-known brands like Blockbuster and Borders. The lesson we learned is that technology is affecting change in business faster and more significantly than ever before. Constantly embracing change and technology is the key to all companies future growth and success. As a result, technology is a key strategy for our 2012 “Get MORE” mission.
In early 2012 we will be rolling out a new more robust & sophisticated on-line ordering experience which is intended to provide our customers with an industry leading Amazon.com-like experience for all your office needs. In addition, 2012 will also see the introduction of a new technology solutions that will allow us to offer a better managed print services program to help our customers more economically and efficiently manage their printer fleet and cost per page.
Finally, we are continuing to evolve our social media presence through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, You Tube as well as at skofficechat.com.
Our investment in time, money & resources towards technology in 2012 will position us well for long term growth and value in the years to come and continue to allow our customers to “Get MORE” when they chose to do business with Storey Kenworthy.
Thank you for your support and continued trust.
Pictured:Glenn Oberline, Partner Storey Kenworthy; Dave Kenworthy, CEO Storey Kenworthy, Norene Mostkoff, President/CEO, HCI Care Services
Dave Kenworthy, CEO Storey Kenworthy; Carma Herring, RN, MS, OCN, Executive Director John Stoddard Cancer Center; Caleb Henga, Director of Development John Stoddard Cancer Center; John Kenworthy, President Storey Kenworthy; Glenn Oberline, Partner Storey Kenworthy
Recently I had the pleasure of accompanying our owners/partners as they went to present donations to two very special charities on behalf of Storey Kenworthy, its employees and friends. For the past year, we have been having a lot of fun celebrating our 75th Anniversary. We decided very early on, though, that it wasn’t enough for us to simply recognize our company and celebrate its birthday with employees. We were also compelled to give back to the community in a meaningful way.
As part of our year-long celebration, employees came together to hold several fundraising events including a BBQ, PTO Day Raffles, an Office Olympics and even a Car Wash. These activities along with gifts from friends of our company allowed us to make donations to two local organizations that have touched the Storey Kenworthy Family very closely. We were very proud to present checks to both John Stoddard Cancer Center and HCI Care Services (formerly Hospice of Central Iowa) for $7,500 each.
We would like to say a big “Thank you!” to everyone who participated and helped us reach our goals.
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Earlier this week, we were proud to host Iowa Governor Terry Branstad for an employee town hall style meeting. After a short presentation by Dave Kenworthy, President of Storey Kenworthy, Governor Brandstad gave some insights on local economy and answered employee questions. We were also honored with a salute for serving the Iowa business community for 75 years.
If you would like to hear our take on what small business can do to help Iowa’s economy and to help grow jobs, or hear the Governor’s response, you can do that here:
