{"id":872,"date":"2021-05-20T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.halstedbag.com\/?page_id=872"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:23:12","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.halstedbag.com\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Over 145 Years of Trust&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:48|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221; border_width=&#8221;4&#8243; el_width=&#8221;10&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#185c7f&#8221;][vc_column_text]Celebrating 147 years of industry service, the Halsted Corporation is one of the nation\u2019s oldest bag and packaging companies. Started in 1876 as a manufacturing business by E.S. Halsted, the Halsted headquarters was located in downtown Manhattan. For more than 100 years, Halsted specialized in manufacturing bags for all trades \u2013 from potato sacks used by local farmers to burlap sandbags found in military bunkers during Vietnam.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;874&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]In 1927, with the Halsted name growing throughout the industry, Mr. Halsted sensed the need to expand the manufacturing facility. He purchased land in Jersey City, New Jersey, and built the 45,000 square foot factory where Halsted remained until 2016. With the new facility producing more than two thousand bags per hour, a 1929 edition of Bags Magazine named Halsted, \u201cone of the most up to date bag plants in the country.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1126&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]In 1944, Mr. Halsted hired Henry Jaszewski as an assistant bookkeeper. Although only a part-time position, Henry managed to form a close relationship with Mr. Halsted and worked his way up the ranks over the next thirty years \u2013 to assistant treasurer, vice president, and ultimately president and part-owner. 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To date, Halsted has trusted manufacturing partners in Bangladesh, India, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Mexico, and Cambodia.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In 2006 Halsted opened a west coast warehouse facility, and in 2016, the headquarters moved to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halstedbag.com\/about-us\/\">state-of-the-art warehousing facility<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cranburytownship.org\/\">Cranbury, New Jersey<\/a> where it remains today with nearly 150,000 sq. ft of distribution space.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Over 145 Years of Trust&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:48|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221; border_width=&#8221;4&#8243; el_width=&#8221;10&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#185c7f&#8221;][vc_column_text]Celebrating 147 years of industry service, the Halsted Corporation is one of the nation\u2019s oldest bag and packaging companies. 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