We have been providing reliable label products for the grocery industry since 1969. Currently serving over 5,000 customers, mainly through our distributor channel, we have worked with grocery purchasing professionals on their labeling requirements for many different needs. We've built our business by providing fast, honest service, and an extensive selection of products at a great price.

In maintaining our high standards for labeling requirements we have used only the best materials for each job, allowing us to have excellent relationships with our customers. They know they can count on us, and you can too!

We have implemented various forms of electronic commerce solutions for some of the distributors we serve and have found them to be very successful.

• Benefits from working with Bollin Label Systems include:
• Established service record with supplier chain provider
• Proven track record in performance of on time deliveries
• Vast inventory of products that your stores use every day
• Serving this market for over 30 years
• Highly trained field personnel to handle all your labeling needs

We hope that our stable, single price per item, type pricing helps keep your business plan simple, efficient, and easy to understand. Our goal is to provide the best service at the lowest possible price.

History

The Bollin family started their first business in 1912 as a neighborhood
Grocery store at Dorr and Ewing Streets in Toledo, Ohio. Their grandfather, Gilly Bollin, operated this enterprise until 1955, expanding it twice.

Gilly revolutionized grocery shopping in the Toledo area by supplying
grocery carts in his store; in that way his customers could select their
own merchandise without the help of a salesclerk. This helped to promote impulse buying and allowed the markets to sell a wide variety of products in addition to food items. Thus, the modern concept of "one-stop shopping" was begun.

The entire Bollin family - both parents, six boys, and one girl - worked
in the store at one time or another. Gilly nearly lost everything during
the Great Depression, but he managed to retain the store and made it
flourish. By 1955, only Jerry and Harry Bollin remained with the Grocery store while the rest of the family pursued other interests. In 1964, Toledo Urban Renewal bought the building at Dorr and Ewing and the contents were sold to another grocery firm. At that time Harry retired; and Jerry, feeling obligated to provide for his family as his father had done for him, founded the Bollin Distributing Company.

The firm distributed Bissell Shampooing Products and vacuum bags to Toledo grocers for rental and resale. Then, as the demand changed, Bollin provided Blue Lustre and Rinse-N-Vac products. At about that time, grocers began to use labeling guns for pricing their merchandise so we decided to supplement our product line by distributing the guns and providing pricing tags and labels. Noticing the wide variety of pricing systems retailers used, we diversified our services to better satisfy our customers' needs. In 1976, we changed from Bollin Distributing Company to Bollin Distributing Incorporated. We handled a greatly expanded line of labels and tags, as well as, Blue Lustre carpet shampoo and Rinse-N-Vac rental equipment. The Rinse-N-Vac line was subsequently replaced with Thermax machines. In 1990, we sold the Thermax division and concentrated our efforts into manufacturing and distributing labeling supplies. We are now undergoing yet another change as Bollin and Sons, Incorporated to Bollin Label Systems. This change has occurred because we are no longer merely a Distributor of pricing and labeling equipment. We now manufacture the labels we sell and we also have a state-of-the-art Graphic Art Department with complete in-house capabilities.

In January 1998 we established an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). In November 1998 all employees were gifted 1 share. This in effect makes all employees owners.