Longtime office supply company opening new furniture gallery

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New furnishings showroom opening astatine Porter’s Office Products

Porter’s Office Products astatine 1050 North 2nd East successful Rexburg. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

REXBURG – A longtime agency proviso shop is opening a caller furnishings showroom soon.

Porter’s Office Products astatine 1050 North 2nd East has been offering ink, notebooks, paper, and different agency supplies for decades. It has since go 1 of nan only agency furnishings dealers successful nan area. It provides desks, chairs, couches and different items for businesses, schools and aesculapian clinics.

Some of its biggest clients are nan Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho State University and nan Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.

The institution is inviting nan organization to spot its caller furnishings assemblage during a expansive re-opening connected June 13.

Sales head Shawn Call tells EastIdahoNews.com they’ll proceed to connection agency supplies. They’re conscionable shifting their attraction pinch nan agency furnishings to beryllium much competitory successful nan marketplace.

“There’s a spread successful nan agency furnishings (space). A batch of places person stopped selling, aliases it’s conscionable really difficult to get to,” Call says. “Everybody that buys furnishings wants to travel successful and look astatine it and effort it out. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium awesome for nan area.”

Porter’s has an agency creation halfway astatine its Rexburg shop to customize furnishings for customers’ needs. It allows customers to return chairs from nan shop and effort them retired to spot if they’re a bully fit. Call says these services are what group it isolated from competitors.

Employee astatine activity successful nan agency creation halfway astatine Porter’s Office Products | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

All its products are made successful America and since it’s a family-owned company, Call says customers tin beryllium assured nan money they walk is staying successful nan community.

“Customers tin telephone america and scope personification connected nan phone. No robots. It’s ever going to beryllium a personalized touch from personification present astatine this location,” says Call.

Mark Porter has owned Porter’s Office Products since 1998. He took it complete from his grandfather, Warren, who is nan boy of nan original owner, Arthur.

Arthur Porters, left, was nan original proprietor of Porter’s Office Products. His son, Warren, began delivering and trading agency supplies to businesses successful nan region. | Courtesy Rebekah Tiberend

Porter’s Office Products sewage its commencement successful 1915. Its original location was connected College Avenue successful a assortment store. At nan time, Arthur besides owned a printing business and nan section newspaper now known arsenic nan Rexburg Standard Journal.

Arthur ended up trading each facet of nan business to his sons. The printing business became Artco, which is now The Occasions Group. Warren bought what became Porter’s Craft & Frame. Warren’s son, Chuck, and his wife, Linda, owned it for galore years earlier trading it successful 2018.

RELATED | Porter’s Rexburg location to adjacent permanently connected Saturday

Today, Adams Publishing Group owns nan Standard Journal.

Porter’s Office Products operated successful nan backmost of nan trade shop for galore years. It yet outgrew nan space.

“In January 2021, a building northbound of Rexburg was purchased to facilitate nan commercialized and unit agency supplies,” according to nan company’s website.

Chuck Porter, left, and Mark Porter, nan existent proprietor of Porter’s Office Products | Courtesy Rebekah Tiberend

It merged pinch Bangs Office Products of Pocatello successful 2009 and added Steelcase to its wide statement of agency furniture.

Call says nan opening of nan caller furnishings assemblage will let nan institution to amended service customers. He’s excited to unveil it during nan expansive reopening adjacent week.

“It’s going to beryllium awesome for nan organization to person a section spot to customize their offices aliases location offices. We person value points that will compete pinch Amazon and will spell each nan measurement up to high-end furnishings pinch 15-year warranties — truthful we’ll person thing for everybody,” he says.

The expansive reopening is happening from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will beryllium a ribbon-cutting pinch nan Rexburg Chamber of Commerce, on pinch nutrient vendors, prizes and giveaways.

Porter’s Office Products is unfastened 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday done Friday.

Some of nan squad astatine Porter’s Office Products successful Rexburg. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

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Rigby car lavation nether caller ownership

RIGBY – Tagg-N-Go Car Wash, a locally owned and operated car lavation renowned for its premium car lavation services, is excited to denote nan charismatic acquisition of Wicked Wash astatine 160 East 1st South successful Rigby.

The acquisition marks a important milestone successful Tagg-N-Go’s description arsenic nan institution continues to turn its beingness successful Idaho and Utah. Customers tin expect nan aforesaid precocious standards of work and convenience that Tagg-N-Go is known for, on pinch respective caller features.

To celebrate, Tagg-N-Go will beryllium hosting a play of free car washes. Follow nan institution connected Facebook to enactment updated.

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