Lindley is the owner of Denver Bookbinding, which binds and rebinds textbooks and periodicals. The company had taken a variety of steps to save money, including reducing the frequency of trash collection.
We had a decent textbook season this year, a little higher in book count than last year. The cloth mills made it a little difficult for us, as they are responding to this downturn by selling to book- binding supply jobbers. There is a middle man now, so material costs were up and so was ship time.
We changed our trash collection from every other week to weekly, so that is a little change up. We are still practicing “just in time” inventory, to help keep our payables down.
Bookbinders use a lot of different materials in making custom products, and we are starting to see “minimum” order rules from our vendors, so it forces us to over-order product and inventory the balance.
Core staff size is the same, but we had experienced and returning part-time staff to help with the textbook orders for the summer.
Our business will get a little slower, because textbooks will be gone, and then we will be a little busier with custom orders for Christmas. We will be partners with a custom wine distributor in creating custom packaging, our partnership with a yearbook publishing company will be growing, and we have an aggressive and fun schedule for arts and craft workshops this fall.
We turned 80 in 2009, and I know we will be around for quite a while.
