It was the day before Thanksgiving…

What do you get when you take 75 pounds of steak with all the fixings and mix it with over 50 people?  You get an A&K Painting Company ‘Day Before Thanksgiving Employee Meal’.

We’re thankful for our employees and we like to show them rather than just tell them. We’re always looking for ways to celebrate in a team building way.  The day before Thanksgiving, everyone is paid for the full day; we work just a half day.  We bring everyone into the shop for a steak fry with all the fixings. CEO Andy Robbins even mans the grill.

Our employees enjoy getting together as one large group – some catching up with one another after being on different projects.  Thanksgiving is about families getting together.  We bring the A&K Painting family together just before sending them home to their own families.  What a great way to kick off the Thanksgiving holiday.

We have much to be thankful for – our families, the business our wonderful customers provide us and our team – the employees of A&K Painting.  Here’s to a blessed and happy Thanksgiving for you and yours.

Florida Ho! Business Building Tour

Three weeks in Florida with the goal of obtaining new business and expansion for A&K Painting.  Imagine visiting 76 Wachovia Wells Fargo Bank branches, reviewing particulars unique to each branch and then waiting for other specialty contractors to complete their identification and take off work.  The IT guys take the most time.  We’re excited about the prospect of working with Marand Builders on these bank branches.  Averaging 6 branch inspection visits per day makes for a full day. The challenging adventure while spending part of November in Florida is okay.  We’re touring across the State from Daytona Beach to Tampa.  Sure, we’re anxious to get back to Charlotte once we wrap up here but we’re more anxious to be awarded the project and start a new chapter in the A&K Painting Company book.

A&K Painting Management Team Retreat

With the economy impacting all of us at over the past year CEO Andy Robbins felt like moral of the management team needed a boost so we planned a company retreat near the beach. Little River SC just north of Myrtle Beach, specifically. It was a time to get away from work.

In a group setting, Andy asked everyone to take their time and share, share what each person does at A&K Painting and to tell us about their life, family and about themselves.  The sharing became very emotional and had great impact on the group. We learned a lot about each other, what makes each of us who we are and how it impacts everything we do.  The time spent was a blessing.

Celebrating Our Employees

We decided another celebration of our employees would be a good thing so we started what will become the A&K Painting’s annual picnic.  Bringing all employees and their families together in a relaxing, casual and fun way was definitely a success.  We took the opportunity to share with employee’s families how their family member helps bring success to the whole A&K Painting Company family.  Our employees are shining stars in the painting industry and making sure their families know is important.

Good food mixed with the best people made the event a success.

NASCAR, Charlotte and A&K Painting

We are so honored to be involved with NASCAR related projects. Our employees love it. We are diligently working on making A&K Painting widely recognized in Charlotte though we know we have a way to go to catch up to the synonymous position of NASCAR.

We’ve completed projects at Joe Gibbs Racing – what an amazing team of individuals that help propel all of their racing teams to success and manage this huge operation.  We’re also very proud to have recently completed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kasey Kahne Racing’s new facility.

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