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“My goal was to be a one-stop shop for the harried marketing professional or administrative professional who gets a lot of these tasks dumped on them and struggles to get them done,” he said, adding that he targets small and midsized companies as clients. … We’ll put it together, we’ll mail it - kind of run the whole thing. … We can build out their marketing message with copy writing. “We have designers on staff at all three locations,” he said. Mullan, who has a marketing background, said his company offers business customers marketing fulfillment and execution. She said adding QPS to Mullan’s company will give Loveland customers access to some things that Bernhardt couldn’t do, such as large-format signage and mailing services. I was just tired and had run out of steam,” said Bernhardt, who grew up working in her parents’ print shop. It needs some new enthusiasm and a desire to grow. The print shop needed the change, she said. But one day, feeling “fed up and tired,” she replied and was put in touch with Mullan, who was looking for a way to extend his reach into Northern Colorado. “It needs some new enthusiasm”īernhardt said she had received a mailing months ago from Allegra asking if she were interested in selling her businesses. “I want to introduce the new owner and manager to the community,” she said. “Physical assets change out … but the people are what you are looking for, the customers and the employees,” he said.īernhardt said she will “hang out and consult a little bit as needed” with the new management of the shop. They like variety and enjoy interacting with customers,” he said. “I look for an organization where the employees are dedicated and have a long history of really liking their work and enjoy doing a good job. “One thing distinctive about all these businesses is there’s a lot of long-serving, close-knit employees, some of whom just need a little more exposure and training, a little more opportunity, which we can provide, being a bigger organization,” he said. In each case, including the purchase of QPS in Loveland, he said he was looking for a certain culture. To build his printing and marketing business, Mullan has bought four print shops in the metro area and consolidated them into the operations in Aurora and Boulder. She moved to Loveland in the past year, he said, and was commuting to Boulder, so she’s excited to be stationed here. Konz worked with another Allegra franchisee in Dallas before moving to the Denver area in 2016 and starting to work for Mullan. So in addition to keeping on the Quick-Print Shop’s two full-time and four part-time workers - including Tarbox - he has named print industry veteran Skye Konz as the shop’s manager. Mullan has been in the printing business for less than five years, buying into the Allegra franchise after a career as an executive in the oil industry. He will continue to work at the shop part-time. His daughter, Kim Bernhardt, sold the business, which has been in the family since Tarbox bought it in 1961. Jenny Sparks / Loveland Reporter-HeraldBus Tarbox measures a save-the-date card before using the cutter machine on Friday at the Quick-Print Shop in downtown Loveland. His feeling of wanting to contribute is really strong.” “He really likes doing it, and I think it’s that generation thing, too. “I said, ‘Really, Dad? Don’t you want to retire?’” she said. Bernhardt said Tarbox asked her if he could talk to the new owner about keeping his part-time gig.
Tarbox still goes in to work every day, spending an hour or so cutting the printed products, his specialty. He sold the newspaper several years later but kept the print shop.
Tarbox, a journalism graduate of the University of Colorado, bought the Loveland business in 1961 when it was the Larimer County Times-News, a weekly newspaper, and the printing operation that produced the paper. “It is a franchise, but it’s locally owned,” said Kim Bernhardt, who has owned QPS since buying it from her father, Bus Tarbox, 22 years ago. Seventh St., has become part of the Allegra Marketing Print Mail national chain after its purchase by franchisee Joe Mullan, who owns two other Allegra print shops - in Aurora and Boulder. A downtown Loveland business that had stayed in the same family for 58 years changed hands Friday.
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