Harris and Bruno International

5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 11 Before evolving into the global giant it is today, Harris & Bruno International began as a humble partnership in 1948, established between Mel Harris and Louis Bruno. At that time, when it was just the Harris & Bruno Machine company, the printing industry was considerably more localized, and the majority of the work done occurred in the San Francisco Bay area. Because printing solutions were localized, this determined that printing challenges had to be as well. Chief Executive Officer and son of Louis Bruno, Nick Bruno explains, “In my dad’s day, there weren’t a lot of avenues to get machinery rebuilt. The world was a much larger place back then… so, [we] filled a need to provide that equipment because even getting things out of the Midwest or East Coast seemed a long way back then.” Although its initial focus was on equipment production and repair, its position as a key provider of printing solutions in the West gave the company the momentum it needed to springboard into wider avenues of service. A Mission of Company Expansion and Preservation Over time, as coast-to-coast businesses became more interconnected and reliant upon a blend of services, Harris & Bruno landed itself in the comfortable niche of making automated coating machines for companies located in all corners of the printing industry. These machines focused on reducing labor costs and errors while increasing overall output, and the results were so outstanding that, to this very day, automated machinery is still the niche that the company serves. While Harris & Bruno was able to narrow down what type of solution it provided, its success meant the exact opposite when it came to where it provided those solutions. The company was able to expand to the point of taking over just about every portion of its product’s creation process and HARRIS & BRUNO INTERNAT IONAL