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Tackling Ice Pix - A sourcing case study

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15 Sep 2006 | (Case Study)


How did a guitar pick maker in Hollywood, California find the perfect manufacturing solution in the hands of a manufacturer based in Raleigh, North Carolina? SourceAuthority.com helped bridge the 2500-mile gap between these two small companies, bringing them together and working alongside them to guarantee success.

Ice-Pix, the guitar pick manufacturer had developed a new innovative guitar pick but they had a problem. Production was underway but the process was lengthy and inefficient. Ice-Pix turned to SourceAuthority.com to assist them in finding a manufacturing company who could help them develop a solution to increase their output. "The SourceAuthority team gave me the impression that they completely understood what we wanted and were fully confident that they could meet our needs," said Ice-Pix. "SourceAuthority helped us find a team of engineers to design and prototype a production assembly device for our company to expedite the manufacturing of specialty guitar picks."

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