The evolution of a tiny pail maker into a global leader in consumer goods packaging, display services and reusable industrial packaging is the subject of Living Our Values: The Story of Menasha Corporation.
We love trains here at Essex Publishing, and it’s been our pleasure to produce a 100th anniversary book about one of the iconic global brands in the railroad industry: EMD®.
Belden Inc. changed the world of electronics with its invention of insulated wire for telephone switchboards and automobiles in the early 1900s. The company parlayed that success through three industrial revolutions to become a leading global provider of network infrastructure and digitization solutions—helping industrial and enterprise customers build their digital businesses of the future.
A Class of One is a biography of Donald Sturm, son of a hard-luck, Depression-era waiter and Jewish immigrant from Ukraine. Don left his humble Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1950s, became the first in his family to attend college and 40 years later was one of the 90 wealthiest men in America.
Reflections: A Century of Handwashing Innovation tells the story of a family-owned company that over more than 100 years has made commercial washrooms and plant floors safer, cleaner and more useable. We published the book in November 2021 for Bradley Corporation, a worldwide leader in commercial washrooms, and emergency and industrial solutions.
It’s quite an ambition, but the Elkay Corporation—now in its fifth generation of family ownership—is determined to be in business forever. In November 2019, Essex Publishing produced a 100th-anniversary book for the company that attempts to explain how. The answer, in a word: values.
Built for All Times, delivered in January 2023, is the story of New York Life Insurance Company, the largest mutual life insurer in the United States. Researched, written and designed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, it tells the story of a company whose core product is at its essence a gesture of love between one person and another.
We delivered Of Small Towns and Big Dreams, a 128-page book produced for Dot Foods, in September 2019. It tells the story of a third-generation, family-owned company that started in a garage in small-town Illinois and grew into the largest food-industry redistributor in North America.
Essex published Forget Not: Mannington Mills' First Century in December 2016 for one of the United States’ largest manufacturers of residential and commercial flooring. The 144-page book tells the story of Mannington Mills, a fifth-generation, family-owned company with Scottish roots that rose from the ashes of a bankrupt flooring factory in southern New Jersey to become a diverse, multinational firm with operations in eight U.S. states and the United Kingdom.
Essex published Building for the Future, a book marking the 130th anniversary of Consumers Energy, one of the nation’s largest combination utilities. Based in Jackson, Michigan, the subsidiary of CMS Energy provides electric and natural gas service to nearly 6.6 million residents in all 68 of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula counties. Delivered in March 2017, the book documents Consumers Energy’s history while highlighting its relationships with its customers, communities and employees.
