The Joseph Merritt Company begins celebrating a century of service in Connecticut with the distribution of an historic 2008 calendar
Hartford, CT - December 3, 2007
Six arts and cultural institutions in Hartford will also distribute calendars.
2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Joseph Merritt Company in Hartford. To honor the tradition of excellence in a variety of digital printing, scanning and marketing communications services, the company has announced the availability of a full color calendar using historic and contemporary images of Hartford and highlighting significant landmark events that have occurred in the area since 1908. The calendars are being distributed by the Merritt Graphics group to clients as a holiday greeting and they are available to the general public for $14.95 at the Merritt corporate headquarters, 650 Franklin Avenue in Hartford, at any of their other seven New England offices, or by calling 860-296-2500. All proceeds benefit the six Greater Hartford arts organizations listed below.
Ed Perry, President and CEO of Joseph Merritt Company wanted to use today’s digital technology to not only produce the company’s annual calendar, but to gratefully pay tribute to six historical and cultural Hartford landmarks also in existence for more than one hundred years in the city where the company was founded. Merritt Graphics has also created custom versions of this historic calendar for these six organizations: Butler-McCook House and Garden, Connecticut Historical Society, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Mark Twain House and Museum, Old State House and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Each organization has copies of their unique version of the calendar for sale in their gift shops.
“We have been researching photography and gathering data for these calendars since the beginning of the summer,” Mr. Perry explained. “We wanted the facts to be historically accurate and the images to be reflective of Hartford from 1908 to today.” “However,” Perry continued, we printed and assembled the first 500 copies in less than 24 hours right here in our shop on Franklin Avenue.”
From design to production and distribution, the calendars are a culmination of creative efforts by the employees of Joseph Merritt Company combined with meaningful contributions made by other individuals and organizations. A complete list of those contributors is located on the back of each calendar.
The Joseph Merritt Company is a marketing communications company that can produce any image on any surface at any time. Founded 100 years ago as Hartford’s first commercial blueprinter, today the company employs 125 people in eight offices in New England and New York.
Merritt’s use of cutting edge digital technology allows the company to expand into providing cost effective, high quality products for their clients. That ranges from outdoor, durable graphics for 145 “Skyeship” Gondolas on Killington Mountain in Vermont to a single Adirondack chair covered with an image by Vincent Van Gogh as well as digital printing, scanning and marketing communications services. Merritt is also the largest dealer in New England for wide format engineering printers and plotters.
In addition, Merritt uses today’s digital technology to create state-of-the-art communications and marketing products such as variable direct mail pieces personalized to each recipient.
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