If you read the message from our founder, you may have gotten the sense that we’re building up to something pretty exciting. You might say that we’re ready to burst from our cocoon into a brand new beginning! Every day we inch a little closer to bringing our organizing solutions to you again, and one day very soon we’ll be announcing the birth… er, launch… of our new web site. (If you want to find out exactly when that’s going to happen, visit our web site and leave us your email address… or sign up to reserve our brand new catalog.)
Honestly, we’re like a bunch of kids jumping up and down on our birthday morning, waiting for the cake and presents. But even though we’ve got just a little longer to wait before we can spread our wings again, we don’t have to wait to connect with you and start talking organizing, decluttering and other fun office geek stuff. So we’ll be blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking until then, and then blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking some more, because you can never really have too many really nice folders to put things in or pretty color coded boxes to store things in or perfectly spaced shelves to stack thing on or brilliantly modular drawers to… um… right. You get it.
Dear friends,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Craig Nelson
My name is Craig Nelson and I am the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ultimate Office. Thanks to you, our valued customers and colleagues, I am proud to announce that as of September Ultimate Office is coming back! Your letters, phone calls and emails have given us the inspiration and motivation to once again provide you with the world’s best solutions to Organize Now. Like many customers who have called and written, you may be wondering what happened and where we’ve been for the past year. Here is my story… as it occurred.
Wall Street Slams Main Street
Our difficulties began in October of 2008. After more than two decades of successfully filling countless workplaces with the best organizing solutions available through our Organize Now catalog, Ultimate Office had to close its doors. We were transforming from a strictly catalog-based business to building a website that everyone was proud of, when the economy began to crumble. For the first time in twenty years we were showing a loss and one of the very same banks that was responsible for our country’s economic plight would not renew our line of credit. Despite $48 billion dollars in available TARP funds, none of the banks would provide Ultimate Office with the funding we needed to continue, despite our years of profitability. Once again, Main Street took it on the chin for the mistakes of Wall Street. I was in tears as I said goodbye to all of the wonderful people that had made my company, and my life, Ultimate.
