Bardes Plastics Inc.

Michigan Small Business Persons of the Year Announced
La Prensa; 4/6/2007; 593 words; ...Noel Cuellar and Ethan Barde, President & CEO...respectively of Primera Plastics, Inc. in Zeeland have been...grown from Cuellar and Barde running two machines in...Noel Cuellar and Ethan Barde exemplify the entrepreneurial...

DON'T FOLLOW HIS PATH; GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN SAYS.(Business)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 3/18/2007; 1130 words; ...business partner, Ethan Barde. To be sure, Cuellar...workdays that forged Primera Plastics. Today, 13 years after...air. Primera supplies plastic parts to the automotive...part of Johnson Controls Inc., an auto supplier...in 1992. Trained in plastics engineering, Barde worked as a ...

Primera gets back to basics.
Automotive News; 9/11/2006; 1246 words; ...Miel When Noel Cuellar and Ethan Barde began Primera Plastics Inc. in 1994, it was just the two...supply-chain specialists DemandTec Inc., of San Carlos, Calif., to...Corp. and Clarion Technologies Inc., to oversee operations. Buresh...

A prime turnaround; Molder Primera gets back to basics.(Primera Plastics Inc)(Company overview)
Plastics News; 8/21/2006; 1555 words; ...Miel When Noel Cuellar and Ethan Barde began Primera Plastics Inc. in 1994, it was just the two...supply chain specialists DemandTec Inc. to troubleshoot inventory issues...Corp. and Clarion Technologies Inc., to oversee operations. Buresh...

Primera's modest beginning exceeds execs' expectations.(Primera Plastics Inc. )
Plastics News; 5/17/2004; 1739 words; ...Rhoda Miel Noel Cuellar and Ethan Barde launched Primera Plastics Inc. in 1994 as a lean, bare-bones...two-man operation. "When [Barde] was running the machines and...said Kim Korth, president of IRN Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich...