Global Expansion
The challenges for our multi-national companies keep growing an at ever increasing rate. They range from continuing to support our customers whoever they are located, to new technology, dealing with increased competition and even medical pandemic and other emergencies. With that in mind we began in 2001 with our manufacturing facility in Maplewood, New Jersey. Over the next 19 years we have increased our scope to include two additional plants in China, Distribution Centers in Mexico and Belgium and sales offices in Toronto, Israel, and two in Thailand. We have future plans for a sales office in Malaysia, a new Manufacturing site somewhere in the world which is still up for discussion and anything else that we need to address. Speed, agility and the willingness, ability and passion to adapt have made us known around the world and we plan to increase our global footprint.
Ideal Jacobs is focused on understanding the needs of our customers and working with them to develop solutions that meet their requirements. The relationship with our customers and the services and / or products we provide defines their perception of us and is at the core of our success.
We are committed to providing the best service and best product while adhering to strict quality and environmental guidelines that govern the way we conduct business worldwide. By focusing on innovation and increasing the efficiency of our systems and those of our sub-contractors we are able to produce high quality products using less raw material. We are committed to communicating with the community regarding our efforts to lessen our environmental footprint.
It is our objective to continually improve the effectiveness of our quality environmental systems, such improvement directly benefits our customers and community.
Our employees are our most important resource. We strive to safeguard our employees at all times, and to educate them in order to ensure their safety and prevent potential hazards. We are committed to working together to develop our employees’ skills and position them for personal and professional growth.
Company Mission
Our Story
Originally operating as a printing broker based in Newark, NJ, Ideal Jacobs was established in 1921 by Morris Jacobs. In the late 1940s both of Morris’s sons, Jerome and Leonard, joined the company to begin creating the family legacy that has led Ideal Jacobs brand for the past 95 years.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the company expanded moving operations from New Jersey to a manufacturing site in New York City. By the late 1960s the two sons invested in their own printing press and made the first move from being printing brokers to printing manufacturers.
Unfortunately, however, by 1971 and after much contention and strife, the two sons split the business with Jerome moving his part back to New Jersey and once again being a printing broker, while Leonard kept the plant in New York city, which eventually stopped operation.
In 1977, Jerome’s son, Andrew, joined the company. His tenacity and desire to grow the business enabled Ideal Jacobs to grow and prosper into the worldwide supplier it is today. By 1985, Andrew took over as head of the company.
In 2001, Andrew and his team installed their first manufacturing plant in Maplewood, NJ moving Ideal Jacobs Corp permanently to printing manufacturing. Over the next 16 years, the company expanded to include: a state-of-the-art machine shop at the Maplewood, NJ manufacturing facility, two manufacturing facilities in China, two distribution centers – Mexico and Belgium, and additional sales teams in China and Thailand. The Ideal Jacobs partnering corporations in Asia went public on the Malaysian Stock Exchange on May 18, 2011 with Andrew Jacobs as the chairman.
Ideal Jacobs is a lean targeted New Jersey based corporation with subsidiaries in Mexico and The Netherlands and partnering corporations in China and Malaysia.
Company Bio
Our numerous areas of expertise include graphic overlays and custom labels, injection molded panels and latches, machined parts, fabric over foam gaskets, die and laser cut components, rapid prototyping, product marking and installation services. We service Fortune 500 clients in the telecommunications and consumer electronics industries.
