BCT, Inc. is the world’s largest wholesaler of thermographed (raised) and offset (flat) printed products to the printing trade. BCT is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was founded in 1975 and began franchising since 1977. BCT has 71 locations (66 franchised) providing wholesale services and products to printers, printing brokers, mailing centers, office supply houses, and general retailers throughout the United States and Canada. BCT’s full line of products includes business cards, a full range of short run, fast turn-around four color process or full color printing and imaging, letterhead, envelopes, labels, rubber stamps, announcements, invitations, specialty products, and more.

BCT’s comprehensive franchise system provides a comprehensive training program, which includes three days of hands on in one of the top BCT facilities and one day of classroom training, one week of training as the facility is being set up, and two weeks of training on site in your new Plant. After the initial training, BCT provides four additional one week on location training sessions, five days each. It also includes local marketing campaigns, experienced and knowledgeable field-support representatives, and proprietary accounts receivable software that manages the costs associated with day-to-day operations.

BCT, through its subsidiary, Pelican Paper Products, supplies paper products, press supplies, press parts and marketing items to the BCT Franchisees. Pelican’s largest warehouse and distribution center is located in Neenah, Wisconsin, and is over 50,000 square feet with 21 employees. Pelican is a paper manufacturer and has its own private label products as well as brand-name mill products. The ability to purchase raw materials at significantly lower prices than available in the open market through conventional methods significantly reduces paper and supply prices for BCT Franchisees.

One of the most important personal characteristics required as a BCT franchisee is strong people skills and come from a production/operations management background since the business model is all about through-put. An owner must be capable of managing 5 to 35 employees and be computer literate using applications.

BCT offers an earnings claim in our Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD), Item 19. As an owner of a BCT, you are provided benchmarking of revenue, cost of sales, labor costs, and general overhead expenses.

BCT has a national accounts program with a number of national chains. This allows our owners who choose to participate in this program an immediate customer base.

Sales Tools

• Preprinted catalogs for each of our product lines
  • Business cards
  • Full-color (Four color Process) full range of products including business cards
  • Stationery
  • Door hangers
  • Tel-A-Dex cards
  • Announcements
  • Rubber stamps
  • Labels
• Private label packaging for corporate accounts, with their logos
• A web based demo to show how our OPC order system works for large corporate accounts
• Preprinted high end collateral material

Why will a customer use BCT rather than BCT competitor? BCTs are local, so a personal relationship is established with the customer. Our web-based OPC (corporate accounts ordering system) and other technology-driven innovations have taken years and millions of dollars to develop. For the past 34 years, BCT has been strictly wholesale. Most of the large competitors have sales representatives calling on the same customers printers/print brokers would refer to them to produce their orders. Business Cards have a low redo factor. What is important is that the order is done correctly the first time. Our proprietary software minimizes errors and insures on time delivery. We call on the customer and stop by each day to pick up their orders. We have found with our large national retailers with whom we have corporate accounts that we get more than twice the volume from those on a route, versus remote locations requiring shipping. We use outside local sales representatives to build the business and customer relationships with our wholesale customers