Benchmark co-owner Kenn Bower said
bathing suit 2010 the business, which celebrated it is 30th anniversary Monday, opened along Croghan Street crossways by the 818 Club.
"We had entirely this stuff posing successful a building and no customers," Bower said, as he remembered the small business and its humble beginning.Bower and his wife, Jennifer Young-Bower, own the business, which has seven employees and has been at its current 7,000-square-foot location on West State Street since 1988.
A Clyde native, Bower said he was a second-year Terra Community College graphic design student in 1980 and began to think of ways he could make a living from his artwork.
"T-shirts gave me an outlet to take that piece of artwork and mass produce it," he said.
He started the business with Calvin Gibbs ed hardy bathing suit and decided to locate it in Fremont, with the city's proximity to the UPS depot, Ohio Turnpike and numerous hardware stores.
Gradually, the small business expanded a emptor base every bit it amplified its services. Benchmark now declares oneself screen one piece bathing suit impression, embroidery, foretokens, lettering and produces promotional items specified pencils, coffee bean mugs, hats and eyeshades.
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