Our Story

Rhoda & Glenn Reeves
 The year was 1981 and Rhoda, as Den mother of her daughter's girl scout troop, decided printing t-shirts for the troop, would make a great activity project. Several months and a few projects for other girl scout troops later, Rhoda found herself in the screen printing business.
With a passion for excellence and creativity, Rhoda threw herself into this new found business. 

Within a few years, the business grew to the point, she needed help and this is where her husband Glenn, a Sear's store manager for 35 years, enters the business. 

The list below, gives you the time line for the growth and expansion
Horizon Screen Printing & Promotional Products
has experienced through the years.
  • 1981 – Rhoda starts her hobby by attending a one day seminar on printing t-shirts. Glenn makes a 1-color wooden screen press. Rhoda prints, in her home, some t-shirts for her daughter’s Girl Scout troop.
  •  1984 – Rhoda’s hobby grows into a business, they move to our current location at 430       Broadway, she hires her first employee, our current office manager, Linda.
  •  1986 -  After 35 years with Sears, Glenn retires as the local Sears store manager, to assist Rhoda.
  •  1984 - We expand into signs, banners and decals with the purchase of a flat bed, ultra violet press.
  • 1987 -  We purchase our first, high tech, fully automated screen press for garments.
  •  1987 - Contract with Columbia Sportswear to print their retail t-shirts
  • 1988 - Rhoda hires her first artist,  our current director, Rhonda.  Purchased an Apple McIntosh computer, 12" laser printer and flat bed, gray scale scanner, for "ONLY" $21,000.
  • 1990 - Dru Reeves is hired into the family business, promotional products added to our offerings, and Wes Wade is hired as our current VP of Sales and Marketing.

  • 1996 -  Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, fourth largest in the state, recognizes Horizon Screen Printing & Promotional Products as the  Small Business of the Year

  • 1997 -  Begin producing embroidered garments in house
  • 2002 -  Rhoda Reeves represents the NFIB, National Federation of Independent Business, at President Bush’s State of the Union Address, joining Laura Bush in her booth.
  • 2004 -  Purchase a full color press for custom shaped decals, signs and point of purchase displays
  •  2006 -  Print League Championship and World Series t-shirts for the St Louis Cardinals, under contract from Lee Sport.

  

Currently, Horizon staffs 19 employees, serving Distributors from California to Maine and a few outside the country. We occupy over 20,000 square feet with the following: Two automatic presses, capable of producing over 8,000 imprinted t shirts in an 8 hour period of time. Three manual presses, which produce hundreds of 12 to 144 piece orders, on a regular basis. We have in-house embroidery production. We have a press for signs, banners and decals. We have three, full time graphic designers, that are available to our Distributors to create designs for their orders.

 

We also provide warehousing and drop ship programs, in addition to custom packaging.

President George Bush & Rhoda Reeves
Mrs. Reeves was an invited guest of the President,
to the State of the Union address. 
Mrs. Reeves was chosen to represent small businesses on a national level for the
National Federation Of Independent Business (NFIB)
Organizational Affiliations
SGIA Specialty Graphic Imaging Association

NFIB National Federation of Independent Business
 

Recognized by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce,

Missouri's Fourth Largest Chamber, as the

1996 Small Business of the Year
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