Loss of large contract prompts layoffs at Fullhouse
Published July 1, 2009 - BizTimes Daily
Milwaukee-based Fullhouse on Tuesday laid off 10 employees, reducing its employment to 85, after losing business from Irving, Texas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp.
"Kimberly-Clark was a significant client of ours and they have gone through some reorganization in their marking group," said Fullhouse chairman and principal owner Glenn Kleiman. "As part of that, they have shifted a significant amount of business away from us. We feel terrible that we had to do this. (The laid off employees) are good people who do good work. We hope to re-hire them in the future."
Fullhouse provides interactive marketing services, including web site management, live interactive experiences and digital signage.
Despite the loss of the Kimberly-Clark business, the company remains strong with good future business opportunities and the company is still working on plans to move its headquarters from Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward to a larger space in the South Water Works development in the Fifth Ward, Kleiman said.
"We are an extremely conservatively run operation, and we have an extremely strong financial position," he said.
The company was recently named to the 2009 Future 50 list of growing companies by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and its Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE).



