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Why the $1.1 Trillion Live Events Industry Is Pivoting to Vaccine Logistics.
February 15, 2021 An army of event planners have discovered a newfound sense of purpose — and much-needed work. DCI Management, which makes exhibits for trade shows, also saw demand for its services vanish overnight, said Art Stewart, who runs the company with his wife, Lori. “Our entire way of life came to a grinding halt,” he said. “First we cried, then we were mad, then we sobered up.” The Stewarts shifted into manufacturing protective partitions, signage, and sneeze guards using materials that previously went into their displays. |
Illustration by Taylor Le for Marker
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Small Business Connection highlights DCIManagement's efforts in surviving though a pandemic.
October 12, 2020 With consumers increasingly becoming interested in the diverse range of unique products available from small businesses, 2020 was on track to be a banner year. Flash forward to today, where nationwide, 7.5 million small companies are at risk of closing for good, according to a Main Street America study. DCIManagement, usually makes tradeshow exhibits for about 50 shows a year. After COVID-19 spread throughout the country and more events were being canceled for safety reasons, the DCIM team discovered a way to pivot their business into a completely new product line and industry. |
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SCORE recognizes DCIManagement as a positive example of how to continue succeeding during challenging times.
October 11, 2020 Despite the current uncertainty, many small businesses are getting creative with what they have and using these resources to pivot into new opportunities and markets. Shopify and Amazon are reporting record small business sales – which in turn is fueling entrepreneurs to engage GS1 US to obtain new U.P.C. barcodes. These are all key indicators that persistent small business owners are finding their own silver linings amid the turmoil of COVID-19. Here are few lessons small businesses recently shared that have ultimately led to their survival during the pandemic. |
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How DCIManagement Pivoted to Secure Customer Loyalty During the Pandemic
September 9, 2020 While initially a pivot just to survive the pandemic, DCIManagement is finding that this new niche has the potential to become a longer-term addition to their business, too. “We will continue to sell sneeze guards, hygiene barriers and social distancing signs online. We believe they will be in demand for many more months. We also have plans to create new products for trade shows such as exhibits and social distancing tools, for when business professionals begin to travel again,” Stewart said. |
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DCIManagement Adds Visual Bite to Dental Trade Shows
August 16, 2020 DCIManagement highlighted in Adams County Living 2020-2021 Membership Directory |
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COVID-19: Updated
12 weeks later... June 9, 2020 DCIManagement pivoted their business and stepped outside of the box to create products, services, and solutions that fill supply chain gaps during the COVID-19 crisis. |
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COVID-19: Updated
Daily Business Operations
March 17, 2020
Every day we wake up to new information about how COVID-19 is affecting communities and businesses across the world. Change is happening in real time, but the one thing that remains constant is our dedication to support you. Like so many businesses, ThreeBigDogs has been closely monitoring the spread of the virus and planning to minimize its potential
impact to our employees, communities, suppliers and
valued customers.
We feel it necessary to reach out to you directly with this update. This information is intended to reassure you that everyone here, at the ThreeBigDogs family, are working diligently to provide uninterrupted services to all of our business partners while keeping the health and well-being of our employees our paramount concern.
We are monitoring the COVID-19 / Coronavirus situation and continuously adjusting our daily operations. Our latest efforts include intensified cleaning and sanitization of our work and home environments along with increased restrictions for non-employee entrance to our facility. Our warehousing, shipping, receiving and distribution abilities remain fully operational and our warehouse employees continue to work diligently. Our office and administrative employees continue to work efficiently on a “business as usual” schedule of daily tasks.
Some of the ways we’re providing our employees optimal working conditions and uninterrupted services to our customers:
We will continue to assess the situation on a daily and sometimes hourly basis to continuously adapt and be as proactive as possible in regards to our employee’s health while providing services to our customers.
Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions or concerns you may have in the upcoming days and weeks concerning our business plans, operating procedures and general concerns you may have concerning our operational status in regard to your individual needs. As a small business owner, we encourage you to support your local small businesses as much as possible in these trying times as we and our employees are being devastated by the uncertainty and in some cases the overreaction to the information being distributed by less than credible sources. Please be safe, use common sense, be vigilant and help each other in your community as we all work together to get through this difficult situation.
With so much uncertainty in today’s environment, we want to personally assure you that everyone at ThreeBigDogs will continue to provide outstanding service and solutions so that our customers can achieve their goals.
Sincerely,
Art Stewart
President
Mobile 717-873-7697
Lori Stewart
CEO
Mobile 717-357-3333
ThreeBigDogs, Inc.
361 East Water St. Gettysburg, PA 17325
1-888-323-6873
Daily Business Operations
March 17, 2020
Every day we wake up to new information about how COVID-19 is affecting communities and businesses across the world. Change is happening in real time, but the one thing that remains constant is our dedication to support you. Like so many businesses, ThreeBigDogs has been closely monitoring the spread of the virus and planning to minimize its potential
impact to our employees, communities, suppliers and
valued customers.
We feel it necessary to reach out to you directly with this update. This information is intended to reassure you that everyone here, at the ThreeBigDogs family, are working diligently to provide uninterrupted services to all of our business partners while keeping the health and well-being of our employees our paramount concern.
We are monitoring the COVID-19 / Coronavirus situation and continuously adjusting our daily operations. Our latest efforts include intensified cleaning and sanitization of our work and home environments along with increased restrictions for non-employee entrance to our facility. Our warehousing, shipping, receiving and distribution abilities remain fully operational and our warehouse employees continue to work diligently. Our office and administrative employees continue to work efficiently on a “business as usual” schedule of daily tasks.
Some of the ways we’re providing our employees optimal working conditions and uninterrupted services to our customers:
- Intensified daily sanitation of common areas including door knobs, computer keyboards, personal work spaces and community areas like bathrooms and break rooms
- Company provided personal protection devices such as gloves, masks, and cleaning/disinfection materials
- Implementation of the see something; say something and buddy system procedures in our working environment
- Voluntary cancellation of activities with groups of people in our personal lives
- Creating a “personal work space” for each employee to follow health care recommendations of maintaining a 6’ distance between people when possible
- Daily shipping and receiving procedures have been modified to optimize a healthy working environment while continuing to provide uninterrupted services
- Visitors are not permitted to enter the facilities under any circumstance for at least the next two weeks
- Incoming and outgoing small package deliveries and shipments are being restricted to a special location in our facility to reduce human contact and ensure safe operating practices
- All office personnel and warehouse management personnel have been given the ability to work remotely if necessary including laptop computers, company cell phones and individualized support from our IT specialists to ensure uninterrupted services in the event that we aren’t able to work at the office
- Increased manufacturing and pre-assembly of products in our warehouse/distribution division to be prepared in case we have a reduction in personnel for any reason in the upcoming weeks
- Temporary suspension of all non-essential outside services such as office cleaning
- Daily “COVID-19 State Of The Union” meetings with all personnel to discuss the most recent credible information being provided by federal, state and local officials to help educate everyone to the latest factual information and reduce unnecessary stress
We will continue to assess the situation on a daily and sometimes hourly basis to continuously adapt and be as proactive as possible in regards to our employee’s health while providing services to our customers.
Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions or concerns you may have in the upcoming days and weeks concerning our business plans, operating procedures and general concerns you may have concerning our operational status in regard to your individual needs. As a small business owner, we encourage you to support your local small businesses as much as possible in these trying times as we and our employees are being devastated by the uncertainty and in some cases the overreaction to the information being distributed by less than credible sources. Please be safe, use common sense, be vigilant and help each other in your community as we all work together to get through this difficult situation.
With so much uncertainty in today’s environment, we want to personally assure you that everyone at ThreeBigDogs will continue to provide outstanding service and solutions so that our customers can achieve their goals.
Sincerely,
Art Stewart
President
Mobile 717-873-7697
Lori Stewart
CEO
Mobile 717-357-3333
ThreeBigDogs, Inc.
361 East Water St. Gettysburg, PA 17325
1-888-323-6873
