Fun Facts about UGP
- UGP has been ranked as one of the Top 50 screenprinters in the nation by volume by Impressions Magazine for 6 years running.
- UGP is proud to be an official vendor of Greek and Collegiate Licensed Products. We hold over 50 licenses for different collegiate organizations.
- We produce over 100,000 printed impressions a month!
- UGP's owners have been best friends since 6th grade. Broken eyeglasses may or may not have been involved.
- We can (and have) printed 20,000 shirts in 8 hours. And we weren't even tired...
- In 2006, UGP printed retail merchandise for Super Bowl XL, the NBA Finals, the MLB World Series, the Motor City Bowl, and the International Bowl. Not sure what happened with Lord Stanley!
- We use enough gallons of ink in a year to fill an Olympic size swimming pool!
- We have moved our production facility 3 times. We hope to never have to move it again.
- Our logo, the "pinwheel", is actually the top down schematic view of one of our automatic screenprinting presses.
- We have over 100 employees.
- We are open 362 days a year (closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years)
- We have actually sold the shirt off our back (while running a merchandise booth at the Great Lakes Folk Festival)! Still working on selling the ice to Eskimos though.