A Great Move in Missouri
He is quick to praise his employees for their hard work during this time period.
"I was lucky enough to have some awful good employees...who were willing to work all the weekends and the nights to get us moved," he lauds.
The seed for this relocation was planted three years ago when the state, looking for ways to downsize in a bad economy, decided to consolidate print and mail. Vessell was chosen to oversee the combined operation. At the time, agencies handled their own mail in scattered mail centers—much the way printing was handled prior to 1980. The mail shops were consolidated into a facility on the east end of the city.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.