Growth

Growing by leaps and bounds.

Currently, BG averages over 300 product orders per month while maintaining a balance, of pounds shipped, which exceeds last year's by 24%.

The automotive markets of the first decade of the 21st century are times and places far different from the first weeks and years of this company's life. In 1971, when BG introduced products claiming to make vehicles run better, muscle cars rumbled up and down America's Main Streets. "Gas mileage" was a topic for automotive engineers with little else to do. Only Indy cars could develop a unit of horsepower per cubic inch of displacement.

Everything has changed.

Straight from the factory, today's cars and trucks run longer, with more power and economy than might have been imagined in an early '70s issue of Popular Mechanics. And yet, BG has prospered. In a sales curve that turns upward month after month, we have shown that succeeding generations of BG products still add long and happy life to the most technically advanced vehicles ever built.

Growth Facts:

• Since 2002, BG's workforce has increased by an impressive 27%.
• Pounds shipped YTD 2005 have increased over 22% from the same period of 2004.
• YTD 2005, BG has had 42 consecutive record-breaking months of pounds shipped.
• BG averages over 200 product orders per month.
• The BG plant can fill and package containers from 1 ounce to 440 gallon capacity.
• In 2006, over 700 students participated in BG University classes. Most classes are conducted in Wichita at the BG University facility.
• BG's new B&H Marathon SE labeler expedites production at a rate of 350 cans per minute.