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[0:08] hello Chan Hassen i'm Samantha Deaggio

[0:11] and I would like to welcome you to this

[0:12] episode of the local today I'm excited

[0:14] to welcome Melissa Mas we are here at

[0:17] Federal Package would you mind telling

[0:19] us a little bit more about Federal

[0:20] Package and your history here in the

[0:22] city of Chanhassen so Federal Package

[0:24] has been around for over since 1982 uh

[0:28] we started out as a packaging company so

[0:30] Propel repel containers that are lip

[0:33] balm containers deodorant containers

[0:35] anything that's going to have a wax base

[0:37] that's going to have product that goes

[0:39] up and down inside the container uh we

[0:41] then shifted into actually make I call

[0:43] it baking the cake so actually putting

[0:45] the ingredients inside and we expanded

[0:48] into uh filling for our customers and

[0:51] now that's the majority of our business

[0:53] that we do is the actual contract

[0:55] manufacturing side for lotion creams

[0:56] serums lip balms deodorants and all

[0:59] kinds of fun products that you find at a

[1:01] Target or Walmart how long have you been

[1:03] here in Chanhasson so the company's been

[1:04] in Chanhassen since 2015 uh we moved

[1:07] from Chaska when we expanded the

[1:09] business into the contract manufacturing

[1:11] side and needed more room so within the

[1:13] last few years Federal Package has

[1:15] really grown and within that time you

[1:17] had thought about relocating looking for

[1:19] a larger space you did decide to stay

[1:21] here in Chanhassen and we're really glad

[1:22] that you did what were some of the

[1:24] deciding factors that kept you here in

[1:25] Chanhasson one of the main deciding

[1:27] factors was our employee base so we have

[1:30] 60% of our employee base that lives

[1:32] within a 10 mile radius and 75% live

[1:35] within a 15mi radius so it was critical

[1:38] for us to make sure we didn't have

[1:39] disruption to our employees and make

[1:42] sure that they can continue the home

[1:44] base here in Chanhassen so how do you

[1:46] support the industry or the local

[1:48] community so obviously from an

[1:50] employment perspective but also local

[1:53] businesses that we utilize as well so

[1:55] two key ones that we have right next

[1:56] door is one is smart press that we use

[1:58] for a lot of our marketing materials as

[2:00] well internal signage and external

[2:02] signage we also use promotion select for

[2:05] different employee gifts and customer

[2:07] gifts when they're coming on board and

[2:09] then of course just local businesses and

[2:11] restaurants like Red Seavo and Pod

[2:13] Valley we use all the time for different

[2:15] meetings as customers and um other

[2:18] visitors come into the

[2:20] business local is more than a zip

[2:25] code local means supporting local until

[2:29] next time Jan Hassen

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