Tiffany Kindschy

Advantus Corp.

Advantus is an operationally excellent business integrator and consumer product innovator committed to providing quality products at the right value across multiple customer channels. Our families of brands have strong positions in some of the most demanding and quickly changing product channels. With product line histories going all the way back to 1878, Advantus is a diverse consumer products company comprised of five operating divisions, each of which contain a family of related businesses and product lines: 1. Commercial Office Products 2. Craft & Hobby Products 3. Home & Office Organization 4. Pool & Recreation Products 5. Luggage & Tactical We manufacture and distribute over 7,000 products in our manufacturing facilities in Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin and Asia, and over 100 manufacturing and distribution partners around the globe. Our 500,000 sq ft of owned, domestic manufacturing and warehousing capacity in Florida is conveniently located near two of the busiest seaports in the U.S. This tremendous capacity, combined with that of our strategic partners around the U.S., enables us to distribute these families of products to a diverse customer base, including all major accounts in the office, craft/hobby, drug/grocery, and mass/discount retail channels. Outstanding execution by our businesses, coupled with our flexible and highly scalable operating system, enable us to create value across a broad customer base, which we continually re-invest in acquisitions and partnerships, organic product development, and continuous process improvement to create new value for our customers. We're always looking for exceptional people with integrity who are highly motivated, committed to excellence, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement and have a drive for consistently achieving measurable results. We have a values-based, opportunity-centric, process-oriented, and results-driven culture and provide our associates a long pathway for growth.