Our Founders  

Pete Cadwallader and Alard “Al” Hanover were the two entrepreneurs who co-founded our company and brought H.P. Cadwallader to life in 1970. Though humble beginnings resulted in the duo producing labels out of a garage, H.P. Cadwallader was incorporated a short time later, and Pete’s intimate knowledge of the industry proved beneficial in finding our niche.  Pete was a veteran in this business and watched as smaller customers were swept aside because of the way the industry was structured. Pete and Al, an accomplished accountant who possessed an enterprising spirit of his own, saw a potential client base in customers who simply wanted to be treated better than they had been.

In 1995, Pete and Al spearheaded the partial purchase of a corrugator, enabling H.P. Cadwallader to shorten lead times by securing source supply faster and easier. We also purchased our own trucks and hired our own drivers just to speed up delivery.

Long gone are the days of Pete and Al printing labels in a garage. We’ve even evolved from just making boxes to now offering value-added services like design and coordination of projects, auto-inventorying, on-site warehousing and more.