{"id":1455,"date":"2016-10-26T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:00","slug":"ted-stahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/ted-stahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Stahl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ted<\/a>Ted Stahl is the Executive Chairman of the Board of GroupeSTAHL, a leading international manufacturer, distributor and direct supplier in the field of custom textile printing. Headquartered in Michigan. Their multi-national affiliates and subsidiaries include heat transfer manufacturing, sports printing supplies, heat transfer adhesives, and films manufacturing, heat press equipment manufacturing, artwork services and software, digital media, licensed goods specialist and decoration fulfillment services.<\/p>\n

Ted is a well-known industry veteran with more than 44 years of experience in all aspects of apparel graphics, from manufacturing and marketing to product design and retail operations.<\/p>\n

Highly regarded by his peers as an industry pioneer, visionary and influential person in the decoration industry, he was ranked as #1 on Stitches Magazine Power 75 List in 2013. In 2010, Stahl was inducted into the National Sporting Goods Association Hall of Fame. Ted has been awarded many patents for innovations in the world of garment decorating, including Thermo-FILM, the world\u2019s most popular material for numbers and letters, and the revolutionary Hotronix\u00ae heat press.<\/p>\n

Stahl transformed his family-owned, Midwestern die-cut letters and numbers business into a multinational supplier with operations around the world. Stahls\u2019 was started by his grandfather A.C. Stahl in 1932. His three children, Gertrude, Helen and Ernie (Ted Stahl’s father), all played a role in the business. The company was known as Stahls\u2019 Felt Stamping and had several divisions, including embroidery, chenille and sewn felt lettering. Legend has it that A.C. grew tired of taking the flak for misspelling names, so he decided to stop offering the service of sewn lettering and just sell the letters\u2014and let people make their own spelling mistakes!<\/p>\n

Thus the die-cut business was born. One of the first foot-operated die-cutting machines used in the business is proudly displayed in Stahl’s front office. When Stahl’s father, Ernie returned from serving as a Marine on the Pacific front in 1945, there wasn\u2019t much time for a transition. But Ernie gladly dove right back into the family business, working with his wife Ricki to take the business to the next level. They were a perfect team, Ernie was the inventor and Rikki offered support. The business grew thanks to Ernie\u2019s innovations, as he developed improved thermal adhesives on die cuts, offered custom cutting services and introduced a variety of new embellishment materials. So you can see that the tradition for customer-driven products was started by generations previous to mine. Along with Stahl’s brothers Brian and Craig, he was involved in helping one way or the other from a young age.<\/p>\n

In 1972, after earning his degree in Finance from Wayne State University, Stahl returned to the business. He felt he had learned more from his entrepreneurial adventures than from some of his professors at the University. Along with his brothers, Stahl had a vision for what the family business could become. They truly understood the challenges retailers faced on a daily basis. Their vision was to focus on providing customers with a variety of heat printing alternatives that would make their businesses more successful.<\/p>\n

Stahl’s brother Craig, was the inventor of Water-Jet custom cutting technology. Craig passed away in 1996. His brother Brian, who was the operations officer at Stahl’s, retired in 2001 and currently lives with his wife Jan in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Today, Stahl’s is the largest manufacturer of heat presses in the world. It is still very much a family business with Ted’s children; sons Brett and Daniel and daughters Erin and Kaitlyn also involved in the business.<\/p>\n

Ted’s favorite accomplishment outside of family and business was the founding of the Michigan Jaguars, a youth hockey organization in Michigan. It was created out of a need to give local young hockey players an atmosphere that focuses on building confidence. Instead of just celebrating goals, we celebrate assists, emphasizing teamwork, mutual respect for other players and parents. The Michigan Jaguars strives to develop athletes with a positive attitude, good sportsmanship, and confidence.<\/p>\n

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Ted Stahl is the Executive Chairman of the Board of GroupeSTAHL, a leading international manufacturer, distributor and direct supplier in the field of custom textile printing. Headquartered in Michigan. Their multi-national affiliates and subsidiaries include heat transfer manufacturing, sports printing supplies, heat transfer adhesives, and films manufacturing, heat press equipment manufacturing, artwork services and software, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}