Anthony Locicero, Associate Editor05.18.20
Peachtree Packaging opened in November 1979. Initially run by fewer than 10 employees who worked within a 15,000-square-foot facility, the Lawrenceville, GA-based company boasts more than 250,000 square feet of manufacturing and fulfillment space spread across two facilities.
The company now employs a team of more than 150 designers, engineers, machine operators, account managers and support staff.
Chad Wagner has been at Peachtree Packaging in some capacity from the time he was a teenager.
After earning a degree at the University of Georgia and time in the Air Force, Wagner came back to Peachtree Packaging as a full-time salesperson in the early 1990s.
Wagner, along with Andy Auchmuty, Ed Davis and one other partner, purchased Peachtree Packaging from the original ownership group in 2016.
Davis and Auchmuty were both long-tenured sales reps and shareholders as well
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“I started sweeping floors and catching boxes off the back of machines when I was in high school,” sai
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