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The best quality bags and wraps since 1959.

In 1959, the combined assets and efforts of Bob and Barbara Stewart resulted in the purchase of a bag machine and the beginning of a new venture- Stewart Bag Company.

The first employee of the company, Wayne Storms, brought in an order from Dixie Poultry Processors for giblet bags, the first order Stewart Bag Company shipped. Among the original employees were salesman, Garth Stewart, packer, Lena Stewart, and secretary, Dee Osterling. In December of 1960 the company moved to a 5,000 sq. ft. factory built by Andrew Schmidt in Vicksburg, Michigan. The two-acre site had room for growth. Shortly thereafter, a partnership was formed with Louis W. Sutherland and the Company became known as Stewart Sutherland Bag Company.

In 1961 another bag machine was purchased and the building underwent its first of five expansions. By 1964, the company was running one and a half million bags a day on three machines. The rapid expansion of business necessitated a 7,000 sq. ft. addition, which would almost double the floor-space of the plant. The addition would also accommodate three new machines, the first of which was to be shipped from Germany that November. Over the next ten years, the company prospered in consort with the growing bakery business and erupting fast food industry. The Company had now expanded their floor plan to over 45,000 sq. ft.

In 1993, the latest of the five additions was completed, bringing the total of Stewart Sutherland’s facility in Vicksburg to over 100,000 sq. ft. Currently the facility houses twenty bag machines and four wrap machines.

For the last 49 years, Stewart Sutherland has met the needs of their customers, employees and employees' families. Their ability to adapt has stood the test of time and will help the company to grow in the future. Today, what once was only a dream of Bob and Barbara Stewart is now among the top plants in the U.S. for our industry.