Nationwide's commercial printing divisions provide service in all areas of general
commercial printing, including prepress, printing and post-press services. Its printed
products include annual reports, direct mail pieces, sales literature, market letters,
newsletters, training manuals, product brochures and catalogs for clients such as
a major computer manufacturer, leading casinos, national marketers, and leaders
in the hospitality and leisure time entertainment industries. Nationwide's operating
philosophy emphasizes responding rapidly to client requirements and producing high
quality printed materials.
Each division also supports and produces custom digital solutions as well as marketing
campaigns that take customer’s ideas from inception to completion. Nationwide Graphics’
Cross Media campaigns enable customers to target market through multiple channels
of communications. Personalized emails, coupled with personalized landing pages,
surveys, and direct mail pieces are tools we use to enhance your ROI. Our proprietary
storefront application, Argosy, provides
24/7 service to our customers, soft proofing of variable products, and unique customization.
Argosy’s robust Web2Print capabilities allow customers to warehouse and fulfill
important documents, track sales, save time and minimize cost by avoiding such hurdles
as spoilage issues and inconsistent branding.
The Management Team
Nationwide Graphics employs a team of professionals that are trained and have experience
in taking your goals—your objectives—from start to finish. With a sizeable footprint
in the United States, there’s no project to big or too small that we can’t add our
expertise to, and show our value added resources.
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Carl L. Norton , Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Treasurer
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Jerry L. Hyde, Vice Chairman, President, Secretary, and Director
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Philip A. Tuttle, Director
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Jeffery Glover, Chief Operating Officer and Advisory Director
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Gene Hindman, Advisory Director, President of Offset Atlanta Division
Carl L. Norton became the Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Nationwide when it was organized in January 1998 and has served in such
capacities since then. Before founding Nationwide, he practiced law in Houston,
Texas most recently with the law firm of Norton, Jacobs, Kuhn & McTopy, L.L.P. Mr.
Norton's law practice focused on mergers, acquisitions and public and private offerings
of securities. His articles and comments have been featured in such publications
as
DBA Magazine, The Texas Lawyer,
Houston Post,
Houston Business
Journal and various other business journals and newspapers. He graduated
from the University of Houston Law Center where he served on the Houston Law Review
and was a member of the Order of the Barons. Following completion of his Bachelor
and Master of Business Administration Degrees from Rutgers University, Mr. Norton
practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte &
Touche).
Jerry L. Hyde became the Vice Chairman, President
and Secretary of Nationwide when it was organized in January 1998. Mr. Hyde has
spent his career as a management consultant with several organizations. During his
career Mr. Hyde has consulted to over 200 companies and has been involved in over
40 merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Hyde formed Rice Consulting in 1992
to provide consulting services to medium size public companies in the area of developing
and implementing growth strategies through acquisitions. From 1984 to 1992, Mr.
Hyde was a partner in the international certified public accounting firm of Ernst
& Young and he became the partner in charge of consulting in corporate finance and
merger and acquisition services in Ernst & Young’s Houston office. From 1978 to
1984, Mr. Hyde practiced with Baucum, Hyde & Reese, a regional accounting and consulting
firm that he co-founded. In 1984 Mr. Hyde and the other partners in Baucum, Hyde
& Reese merged that firm with Ernst & Young. In 1972 he joined Ernst & Ernst (now
Ernst & Young) as a consultant designing cost accounting and management reporting
systems for clients and was employed at that firm until he resigned to co-found
Baucum, Hyde & Reese in 1978. Mr. Hyde served as an officer in the United States
Marine Corps. from 1968 to 1971. Mr. Hyde graduated in 1968 from Lamar University
with a Bachelor Degree in Economics and from the University of Texas in Austin in
1972 with a Master of Business Administration Degree. Since 1974 Mr. Hyde has been
licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.
Philip A. Tuttle became a member of Nationwide’s Board
of Directors in May 1998. Mr. Tuttle is a General Partner in Davis, Tuttle Venture
Partners, a $45,000,000 private investment partnership formed to provide expansion
financing, middle market buyouts and early stage investments in the Southwest. He
began his career as Vice President and Co-Manager of Flint Capital Corporation,
a private venture fund. Thereafter, he became President of Allied Bancshares Capital
Corporation, a bank-owned, federally licensed Small Business Investment Company,
which he built from $5,000,000 to $40,000,000 in capital in a five-year period.
Mr. Tuttle has been active in the Houston venture capital community for over 25
years. Mr. Tuttle serves on the Boards of Directors of several corporations and
civic organizations. He is a founder and past President of the Houston Venture Capital
Association, past President of the Houston Chapter of the Association for Corporate
Growth, past board member of NASBIC and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors,
London. He graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor Degree and from Northwestern
University with a Master of Business Administration Degree. Mr. Tuttle also is a
Certified Public Accountant.
Jeffery Glover became a Nationwide's Chief Operating
Officer and an advisory director of Nationwide's Board of Directors in September
2002 when he joined Nationwide. Most recently Mr. Glover was the Regional Vice President
- Commercial Print Division and the President of Wetmore Printing Company. Wetmore
Printing is the largest commercial printing division of Wallace Computer Services,
a $1.6 billion revenues company whose securities are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange. Mr. Glover led Wetmore Printing into fulfillment and distribution services,
the creation of a fulfillment services software solution and customized B2B Internet/web
ordering system and its digital print on demand services. Beginning 1991, before
its 1997 acquisition by Wallace, Mr. Glover was a Vice President of Graphics Industries,
the parent company of Wetmore Printing and he also was Wetmore Printing's President.
In 1980 Mr. Glover began his printing industry career when he joined Gulf Printing
Company, Inc., a $100+ million commercial directory manufacturer. He has attended
numerous management and leadership printing industry programs including Professional
Leadership Training at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Gene Hindman became an advisory director of Nationwide’s
Board of Directors in September 1998, when Offset Atlanta, Inc. was acquired by
Nationwide. Offset Atlanta is a Norcross, Georgia commercial printing company serving
the metro Atlanta area. Mr. Hindman was one of the co-founders of Offset Atlanta
when it was organized in 1988. He became the President in 1992 and its sole stockholder
in 1995. Mr. Hindman has been involved with commercial printing in the Atlanta area
for over 20 years. Since the Offset Atlanta acquisition by Nationwide, he has been
the President of Nationwide’s Offset Atlanta Division.
