American Entrepreneur Acknowledged on Nationwide Senior Citizen Day


Steve Singer of BioSafe LLC is being acknowledged as an American entrepreneur on Nationwide Senior Residents Day as a part of the American Presidency Challenge, which falls on August 21.

Whereas many entrepreneurs, executives and enterprise homeowners are foregoing the workplace to remain at dwelling and retire early, this 82-year-old senior citizen refused to loosen up, sit again and benefit from the twilight of his life. As an alternative, he determined to return into enterprise and begin a brand new firm through which the typical age of the employees members is 74 years previous. A enterprise that is not solely thriving however has rapidly change into a pacesetter in its trade.

“I wished to create an organization that wanted no capital infusion, holds no stock, has no debt or excellent receivables. We have finished all that,” stated Singer.  “That is actually our first full yr in enterprise, and we’ll most likely do near $10,000,000 in gross sales. Subsequent yr, I want to double that if we will.”

Singer, a former textile trade government and present founding father of BioSafe LLC, an industrial packaging firm based mostly in Palm Seashore, Florida, acknowledged {that a} key element of the trade had gone lacking over time and determined to do one thing about it.

“Every little thing has change into so digital. Whether or not you wish to order one thing so simple as plastic bottles or aerosol cans, it’s a must to bounce by means of too many hoops to get a quote and get their merchandise. You need to spend time filling out web site types solely to get a message stating that somebody will contact you in three enterprise days,” remarked Singer. 

As an alternative, BioSafe prides themselves on answering the cellphone. “We reply the cellphone each time, and if we do not have the reply, we are going to discover it instantly, not in three enterprise days. Moreover, principally all of our quotes embrace supply to the shopper’s door, which allows them to spend extra time on their very own enterprise, relatively than spending hours with freight firms and customs clearance to get supply. Our credo is to commerce excessive volumes at low margins. All this helps our buyer and retains their loyalty. We change into like a member of their household,” he added.

Feeling the duty to assist out each time assist is absolutely wanted, Singer additionally began his personal basis in 1973 to facilitate charitable donations. Consequently, he has yearly donated 5% of gross income, primarily to the academic and medical sectors.   

A number of CEOs and firms get a nasty rap nowadays, nonetheless, this 82-year-old businessman is setting an instance for different entrepreneurs, executives and enterprise homeowners. What’s actually totally different about this man is that most individuals cannot watch for the weekend, whereas Singer, however, cannot watch for Monday morning.

Supply: BioSafe