Church Hill Classics Expands Into

New Monroe Headquarters

MONROE — Church Hill Classics, an enterprise that began in the basement of a Newtown home in 1991, has recently relocated to a greatly expanded plant, warehouse, and executive office facility in Monroe. The company has expanded from a 30,000-square-foot leased facility at its former Danbury location to a 47,000-square-foot, 9.3 acre campus at 594 Pepper Street.

Church Hill Classics is a market leader in manufacturing, distribution, and sales of custom picture and document frames. The company creates licensed school and organization-specific presentations for diplomas, credentials, certifications, and also offers a line of coordinating medallion desk accessories. The company also offer frames for military memorabilia and provides contract framing services to major corporations and mail-order retailers, including the Danbury Mint and Golf Digest.

For 2007, a company release estimated that Church Hill Classics will produce and sell more than 110,000 custom frames, up from 90,000 in 2006.

Church Hill Classics employs 52 people and is increasing its work force by ten in anticipation of continued growth in the Monroe facility. Church Hill Classics markets and sells most of its customized diploma and certificate frames through its network of relationships with more than 700 colleges and universities, along with numerous trade, industry, and professional associations.

Church Hill’s new facilities represent another milestone. The concept for manufacturing high-quality frame presentations that are tailored to a particular organization was the vision of Lucie Voves, who had career aspirations as an entrepreneur during her tenure working in Brand Management for Procter & Gamble.

Church Hill Classics recently became the exclusive distributor of the “Level Lock” hanging system, a patented, innovative technique to simplify the process of hanging framed pieces to assure they are level, secure, and can be easily arranged in grouped arrays on a wall.

Church Hill Classics (www.diplomaframe.com) has been recognized as a 2006 winner of the prestigious International Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, awarded by the North American Council of Better Business Bureaus. In August, the company was selected by Inc. magazine as one of the 100 fastest-growing consumer products companies in the United States

Lucie Voves was one of three Trailblazing business owners in America for 2007, chosen for this honor by the National Association of Women Business Owners and sponsored by Wells Fargo. Ms Voves has also been recognized as one of America’s most outstanding female entrepreneurs by Enterprising Woman Magazine.

Reports of Ms. Voves’ business success have been featured on television, on radio, and in national and local publications including The New York Times as well as The Newtown Bee.