With the great depression in full swing, 1933 was not a good year to start a business. However, with the sale of his clarinet, Wheeler Utley purchased a small hand-feed printing press and adopted the name Globe Print Shop; setting up business in the basement of the family’s western Kansas home.
1945 was a watershed year for the small struggling company which had relocated to Detroit, Michigan.As World War II winded down, younger brother Bob returned from the U.S. Marines to join Wheeler in the business.On March 17, 1945, the two brothers (the original Utley Bros) incorporated and changed the company name to Utley Brothers.
Five years later, on a cold winter night, Bob and Wheeler visited a local car dealer to see the new 1950 models. The cars were beautiful but the business cards they received were awful...really drab-looking!
So they went back to their little printing shop, designed some colorful cards and sent samples to a selected list of car dealers. That first year they sold 300 orders of cards. Wow! They were sure they had found their niche.Over the years, the family-owned company has specialized in designing and producing business cards for automobile dealers nationwide.
Today the same family owns and operates Utley Brothers.The goal of helping people promote themselves with quality printing remains the same while the product offering has grown to include a complete line of marketing materials. At the same time, the client base has also grown to include multi-billion dollar corporations with global footprints.The values and pride that go into taking care of our customers has remained the same since being a small hungry printer in Detroit, Michigan.
Utley Brothers leverages the best of technology with an experienced management team and staff to deliver a powerful 1-2 punch of corporate identity management and print procurement.
Client Portfolio
From its facility in Troy, Michigan, Utley Brothers produces in excess of 150 million full color business cards (along with other marketing collateral) annually for more than six thousand customers; some private and some public organizations. Producing quality business building products since 1945, Utley Brothers has the people, the processes and the experience to provide you with worry-free service for your organization. Clients who agree include; Thousands of New-car Dealerships nationwide, Chrysler Group LLC, Kelly Services, AAA-The Auto Club Group, and Colleges and Universities across the country.
