Feature: Tara Abraham
Accel, Inc., established in 1995 by Tara Abraham, is an award winning contract packaging company specializing in creating innovative packaging assembly solutions. Accel's services include, but are not limited to assembly, packaging engineering and design, thermoforming, sourcing, reworks, and international operations.
Accel Inc. serves industries such as health and beauty, automotive, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage, to name a few. During her tenure in the beauty industry, Tara encountered frustration time after time as she worked with contract packaging companies on gift sets, gift-with-purchase sets, and promotional packaging. She could not find a reliable company who could affordably package her products on time, to the quality standards she set. It wasn't long until Tara realized she could fill the need for a quality-focused and cost-savings-driven packaging company that would meet client and consumer expectations.
Tara began assembling gift sets out of a tiny 1,200 square foot warehouse. In only twelve years, Tara and the Accel team, including her husband, President and COO David Abraham, have grown the company into a 305,000 square foot facility in Columbus, Ohio with joint venture operations in Santa Ana, California, Imuris, Mexico and three locations in China's Shanghai, Xiamen and ZhuHai. Accel's success is reinforced internally by a talented management team and externally through associations.
Tara is a member of Women's Business Enterprise National Council, Women Presidents' Organization, and Young Presidents' Organization. She serves on boards for the American Red Cross, the alumni board for The Ohio State University's College of Human Ecology, the WBENC Board for the Southeast Region and Columbus' Kobacker House Award. Tara supports the American Lung Association, Breast Cancer Awareness, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Action for Children.
Under her leadership, Accel has been acknowledged as a top Woman-Owned Business in Central Ohio and has received the Columbus Fast Fifty award for six years. Additionally, Accel has won Corporate Caring Awards, Family Business Awards, Limited Brand's Apothecary Award for Supplier Excellence and Limited Brands' 2007 Championing Diversity Award. Tara received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Emerging Business in 2000, Columbus' Top 40 under 40, the 2007 WBENC Business Star Award for the Southeast Region of the United States, and The Oho State University College of Human Ecology Alumni Award.
Accel provides its clients with superior quality contract packaging services in a manner that is time-efficient manner and cost-effective. They have earned their reputation for creating the most visually stimulating product presentations and packaging solutions.
For more information about Accel, please visit them at www.accel-inc.com.