Stouse Sign Service was founded in the early 1950Ís and specialized in sign painting, billboards, road signs, store signs, and restaurant signage. Bary Marquardt purchased the business in 1977 and expanded the product line to include bumper stickers and other screen printed products. In 1979, Stouse produced its first catalog, a much smaller, more primitive version of todayÍs Full Line Catalog.

In 1980, Bary and Will Lewis, co-owner of the company, relocated the operation to an 18,000 square foot building on Roanoke Road in Kansas City, MO and the company became Stouse, Inc. Together Bary and Will have led the company to greater success and have continually reinvested in the business.

manufacturing plant
By 1988, the company had outgrown the Roanoke facility and a new 37,000 square foot building was constructed in the suburbs of Kansas City. Spurred on by the success of screen and flexo printed products, the company made an addition that more than doubled the facilityÍs size in 1992, and more than doubled the facility again in 1996.

Today our office and plant account for approximately 180,000 square feet of space and the company employs over 300 dedicated workers.