T.J. Davies Receives 2022 UPS Ignite Grant Award

It will soon have the opportunity to serve customers better and grow the company through this program’s resources.

T.J. Davies Company, Inc. is celebrating its selection as a 2022 UPS Ignite Grant Recipient. It will soon have the opportunity to serve customers better and grow the company through this program's resources.


Sherry Davies, the owner of T.J. Davies Company, Inc., is pleased to partner with UPS and The Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. She looks forward to improving her knowledge and the company's success through this UPS Ignite partnership. She plans to use the resources to enhance branding and develop a new catalog.

Company owner Sherry Davies reflects, "I feel blessed and excited to have been selected as one of ten UPS Ignite grant recipients. It was an honor to have been selected as one of 36 US-based business leaders that comprise the second cohort in the UPS Ignite program. We look forward to sending out our new catalog in the new branded boxes."

The UPS Ignite grant program, in partnership with The Northwestern Kellogg School of Management and Accion, is UPS's new program to promote equity and inclusion. Recipients benefit by gaining "access to the knowledge, capital, and networks they need to succeed." UPS Ignite provides women-owned and diverse-owned businesses with capital, training, education, and coaching to help them move toward greater success.

Founded in 1965, T.J. Davies Company, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of retention knobs located in Mantua, Ohio. The vision of T.J. Davies Company, Inc. is to produce world-class, made-in-America retention knobs and to provide exceptional customer service. "At the core of everything we do is our values, exemplified by our people."

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