Pink Power ‘Making Strides’ Fundraising Meeting

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Today’s Pink Power Lunch was a Team Leaders and Pace Setters fundraising meeting for the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) 2014 ‘Making Strides Against Breast Cancer’ Walks and Events. A&K’s Director of Repaint Division, Amanda Hibberts, is one of the Team Leaders.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer (MSABC) is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, unites more than 300 communities to finish the fight. Every breast cancer walk and event is an incredible and inspiring opportunity to honor those who have battled breast cancer. The walks and evvents raise awareness about what can be done to reduce breast cancer risk, and raise money to help the American Cancer Society fight the disease with research, information, services, and access to mammograms for women who need them.  Making Strides of Charlotte, a 5K Walk, takes place Saturday, October 18th at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We invite you to learn more and get involved.

Amanda encourages you to make a donation and join her team for the October ‘Making Strides Charlotte’ event.

Photo of Laura Renegar, Amanda Hibberts and Russ Harriger,

L – Laura Renegar, Primax Properties LLC  C – Amanda Hibberts, A&K Painting Company   R – Russ Harriger, Primax Properties, LLC

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Planning Meeting group photo

Team Leaders at Making Strides Against Breast Cancer planning meeting

Photo of Amanda Hibberts discussing fundraising tactics

Amanda discussing fundraising tactics for the upcoming Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

 

Content referenced  'About Making Strides Against Breast Cancer' was found at  http://makingstrides.acsevents.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MSABC_CY14_AboutMakingStrides.

Dry Erase Walls and Surfaces More Popular Than Ever


A&K Painting provides a canvas for brainstorming and finding solutions.

Dry erase walls and other surfaces, like tables and work surfaces, continue to gain in use and popularity.  They promote a better means to get ideas out, work on solutions and actively see the big picture; particularly when working with fellow team members as well as working by yourself. Getting rid of the tired white board look and gaining whole walls and table tops to work on, to brainstorm, plan and find solutions provides a great benefit for your people and company.

We have many options available that fit most needs.  Visit our Dry Erase Solutions page for ideas. We’re experts at both presentation coatings and wallcoverings.  In fact, we have Dry Erase solutions on walls and sections of walls throughout our own offices and at our Operations Training Showroom. Contact us today to learn more and bring our expertise to your workplaces.  We have solutions for offices, hospital and medical building or production and manufacturing facilities.  We have many design options too.  Not just white. Think design colors and patterns, and lined and grid patterns solutions perfect for educational settings, classrooms and labs.

Today’s Wall Street Journal story about Evernote’s Silicon Valley office building highlights one of the products we use called IdeaPaint, an excellent dry erase coating.  Evernote’s complex utilizes dry erase solutions throughout, in offices, conference rooms and common areas. Unfortunately the full WSJ article is in the subscriber protected area otherwise we’d link to it.  Here are two photos of the Evernote offices.

Photo of Evernote's Offices and their use of Dry Erase coatings on office and common area walls

From the WSJ Article
The whiteboard has three chief virtues: It’s fast. It’s easy to use. And it’s big. “We’re often doing something I call ‘designing in the hallway,’ ” said Jamie Hull, the product manager for Evernote’s iOS apps. “When a new problem or request comes up, the fastest thing you can do is pull two or three people aside, go to the nearest wall, and figure it out.” Unlike a computer or phone, the whiteboard is always on, always fully charged, and it doesn’t require that people download, install, and launch software to begin using it.

A&K’s 4th Annual Buckets of Love Campaign Starts Today

JenniferDarcyGuidanceCounselorofIndianLanElementarySchoolToday is the official launch of our 4th Annual ‘Buckets of Love’ campaign that collects and distributes school supplies to local schools and Classroom Central to assist local elementary school students living in poverty. We work to support the mission of Classroom Central.  Our Buckets of Love campaign collects donations and school supplies to supplement A&K Painting Company’s donation. Buckets of Love provides direct support to students at several elementary schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, Rock Hill School District, Gaston School District and Lancaster County School District.

From July 1st to August 30th we solicit donations and support from customers, vendors and other industry associates and friends to supplement A&K Painting’s donation. In August, school supplies are purchased. We place a Buckets of Love label on five gallon buckets provided by our vendors and fill each bucket with supplies.  The buckets are delivered to schools and Classroom Central during the first full week of the new school year.

We ask for your assistance through larger donations of money.  We’re thankful for all amounts donated. Secure online donations can be made by credit card. All money donated will go to the purchase of additional school supplies.

Share the 2013 Buckets of Love Press Release

Learn more about Classroom Central

Shutterfly, Inc. – All about Made in America

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Congratulations to Shutterfly, Inc. and Choate Construction on the new Shutterfly, Inc. manufacturing facility.

Shutterfly is the world leader in social expression, personal photo publishing and online photographic products. The 300,000 square foot Fort Mills, SC space is Shutterfly’s newr manufacturing and distribution facility. The Fort Mills facility houses production and customer service personnel for Shutterfly’s four brands: Shutterfly, Tiny Prints, Wedding Paper Divas and Treat.

We’re proud to have painted and finished the project for Choate Construction.  The remodeled facility replaces a smaller Charlotte based facility and now houses their customer service, production and distribution facility for its four product lines: Shutterfly, which makes prints and photo books; Tinyprints, which makes cards and stationery; Treat, which makes greeting cards; and Wedding Paper Divas, which makes wedding invitations.  Learn more about Shutterfly.

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