Founder and owner Tom Brassard has announced that 2015-2016 marks the 25th anniversary year for Paw Print & Mail, a full-service B2B printing, mailing, graphic design, and small business marketing services company located in South Burlington, Vermont.
Paw Print & Mail has evolved to specialize in highly-personalized direct mail marketing and fundraising appeal campaigns, as a cross-channel component of a company or organization’s overall brand-building and direct marketing effort. Their printing services include: traditional offset printing, digital printing, large-format printing, and variable data printing.
Brassard started the company as a sole-proprietor in the basement of his parents’ home he grew up in on North Avenue, learning the technical aspects of the business from his father Norm Brassard who sold printing equipment for McAuliffe’s Office Products at the time. Brassard worked as a pressman and bindery operator while simultaneously building the business through his outside sales efforts to grow the company to become a trusted printing and mailing services provider for many local businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Brassard is a native Vermonter, raised in Burlington where he attended Rice Memorial High School, and the University of Vermont where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration, class of 1978. He is active in the community serving on the Board of the Burlington Business Association (most recent past President), and as current President of the Board for the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging.