New In-plant Leaps Forward

"As we took on more work, we realized we needed more space and more employees," remarks head press operator Michael Warden, who was hired a few months later.

The shop soon added a second press, an A.B.Dick 360. In 2002, the in-plant made a big jump in capabilities when it purchased a five-color Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 perfector. That press was added mostly to enable the in-plant to get into a new line of business: Printing "memory pages" for scrap book creators. This has become a huge business for Hobby Lobby, and thus for the in-plant.