Gamber-Johnson LLC’s Post

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Gamber Johnson was founded here in Stevens Point in 1954. So we started as a wooden furniture manufacturer and a customer approached us and asked if we could make a mount for a CB radio. That went into vehicles that eventually became other radio mounts and eventually computer mounts that we do today. And as time have evolved, we have evolved as well. Innovation is in our DNA. Exporting has been natural, part of Gamber Johnson. Revolution because only 5% of the world's population lives in US, so if you're not exporting you are missing on the biggest population. Cambridge Johnson is a great example of a company that was originally an opportunistic exporter. They were doing some business internationally, largely to markets close by maybe Canada, but through their participation in various programs through WDC including export Tech including our International Market Access Grant they have. Truly expanded their ability to compete internationally and and become much more proactive and strategic in their approach to their growth. WDC has made exporting possible by giving us the resources that are required. We can pick up the phone and we are talking to an extension of Gamber Johnson that has been our relationship with WDC. Gamber Johnson is an established brand name already in Europe and much of the Middle East and are now looking to pursue additional opportunities. Throughout Latin America and Southeast Asia, but we've been really booming since 2012. Is that coincidental to us doing the exporting initiative or is it really part and parcel with that? And we like to think that it's really part and parcel and big reason why we've been as successful as we've been is because of our exporting journey.