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Where To Buy Bags, Signs And More
Are you looking for bags, banners and placards for a farm produce stand? Are you stocked up on nursery supplies like burlap squares and twine? Do you have all the bags and boxes you need for packaging fish from the bass pond? For the past 80 years, farmers have been turning to Wasserman Bag Co. for packaging needs f
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Where To Buy Bags, Signs And More 28-2-9 Are you looking for bags, banners and placards for a farm produce stand? Are you stocked up on nursery supplies like burlap squares and twine? Do you have all the bags and boxes you need for packaging fish from the bass pond? For the past 80 years, farmers have been turning to Wasserman Bag Co. for packaging needs from containers to packing equipment, sales and repair.
"My father says it's the first 100 years that are the toughest," says Karen Wasserman, the founder's granddaughter. "As we've expanded over the years, we've become a one stop shop. People used to come to us for potato bags. Now they come for poly bags, wire closers and weighing equipment and so on."
Wasserman Bag started out serving growers predominantly on Long Island, New York. Nowadays they ship nationally and have a Midwest office in Indiana.
The business is constantly changing to reflect changes in farm marketing, says Wasserman. The firm sells generic packaging materials of all sorts and sizes, as well as custom-designed and printed products. A short list of products includes plastic clamshells, vegetable boxes, corn bags, potato and onion bags, as well as squash and pumpkin bags. They also sell all types of strawberry and farmstand supplies as well as aquaculture and seafood bags.
"A large portion of our business is specialty bags, such as small mesh bags for gourmet potatoes or pearl onions," she says. "People are packing in smaller sacks, and everyone is looking for a marketing edge, so print quality, color and design have all changed. After all, many times it is the package that sells the product."
The company also sells and services closing, weighing and grading equipment. Wasserman notes that there is a lot of old equipment around that can be repaired.
"We've seen machines so old that even we don't know what they are supposed to do," she says. "In one case, we called the owner and asked what it was. He said he didn't know and told us to keep it."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Karen Wasserman, Wasserman Bag Co., 70 Commerce Pl., Hicksville, N.Y. 11801 (ph 516 681-5900; email: wassermanbag@aol.com).
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