Immediately, Pottage committed $1000 to the venture, and the conversation shifted to naming the enterprise. As they contemplated this question, they noticed a coaster on the bar imprinted with the word “Nazdrovia,” the Bohemian word for success. Today – and 100 years and millions of dollars later- these events have grown into Nazdar, North America’s largest screen-printing ink manufacturer and one of the largest of all ink companies in the nation.
Although Pottage and Owens dreamed up Naz-Dar (which lost the hyphen years later, after several name transitions), they had li
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