Trophy Enterprise Proprietor Requirements Support from Community

Like a quantity of modest firms, the Covid-19 Pandemic has substantially curtailed orders at Manitowoc Trophy on Washington Street. 

Proprietor Jim Behnke tells Seehafer Information the situation has solid doubt about the future of his enterprise.

“It has impacted our organization fully with almost everything shutting down last March.  We experienced to lay all people off and we experienced to bring some of them again in circumstance we did have orders coming by means of.  I had to dig into our pockets and pay back the workforce even if we didn’t have something for them to do–in the party orders came in.”

Behnke experienced this explanation to pinpoint their loss of business with respect to trophy and plaque orders.

“Just about everything that goes on did not go on and we pretty a lot just take treatment of all of Manitowoc County school methods, and gatherings like baseball tournaments, motor vehicle demonstrates, a great deal of stuff was canceled.”

Jim describes he would like some help from those in the group in a particular ‘vote’ to ideally qualify for as a great deal as a $30,000 grant presented by FedEx.

“We applied for it, they noticed our tale, we did a moment and a 50 % online video and we had been accepted into that.  Now, it’s carried out on votes and you can go on Manitowoc Trophy’s Facebook page or FedEx and vote just by coming into your email address.  People are tabulated and go towards the grant.

You can vote once for each working day as a result of upcoming Wednesday, March 24^th.

As for their small business presently, Behnke said “We’re just scraping even appropriate now and it’s been difficult.”   He’s been in small business for 35-many years and gave a large amount of credit to the local community for supporting them.