Lamont Awards and Apparel started as LaMont Wood Products in 1970. We were local suppliers of all walnut related products to the Award dealers in the Western New York area. It wasn't very long until our demand far exceeded our output.

We decided that the profitability of selling completed awards, as opposed to wholesale trophy bases and plaques, was better for our future. We closed our wholesale business in 1972 and incorporated as Lamont Awards and Apparel and Sporting Goods, Inc.

We moved to Spencerport, New York and took over an 800 square foot location. We built all of our awards in-house and sold printed T-shirts, jerseys, etc. to sports' teams. We found it very difficult to depend on our garment printers to get our orders to us on time...so we rented another 400 square feet and set up our own silk screening operation.

My partner, Ray Lammes took control of the Printing and Sporting Goods part of the business and I, Michael Montecalvo, took control of the Trophy production. (The "La" of Lammes and the "Mont" of Montecalvo is how we derived our name "LaMont.")

From about 1975-1977 the business struggled. We had grown too big too fast! Partner problems, employee problems, receivable problems and inventory out of control...we were in a tremendous mess! In an attempt to solve this mess, I bought out my partner and tried to get "hold" of the business. We secured a $50,000 loan from the Small Business Administration, sold off the silk-screening part of the business in 1980 and sold off the sporting goods part in 1982. By 1983, we were solvent again.

Wow! Did I learn a lot about business in those years. We probably made every mistake that was possible. It was only through the willingness of our suppliers that we were able to make it. They didn't panic when we couldn't pay. They set up payment plans for us to catch up...and still continued to sell to us. As it turned out, this not only benefited us but also them. We still buy from these suppliers, we are now one of their largest dealers.

In 1983, LaMont moved to an 1800 square foot location where we produced only Awards. Our gross sales increased by $100,000 through 1990 when we moved to the 3600 square foot Plaza facility that we occupy today. Early in 1999 we expanded to the other side of the building to have a total of 6000 square feet of space. With this extra space we formed a new business, Corporate Specialty Products to take care of your imprintable product needs.

November 1, 2000, Lamont Awards and Apparel and Sporting Goods, Inc., aka Lamont Awards and Apparel purchased all of the inventory and screen printing equipment of a company, "closing its doors". Two, six head embroidery machines were also secured. We hired the sales force, as well as the heads of all its departments to readily move forward in this venture. Our product line will now include imprinted and embroidered apparel. As of November 15th, 2000, we are d/b/a LAMONT AWARDS & APPAREL! With the new growth we needed more room, we took on 2,000 more square feet of production space.

We believe that the recognition business is based on presentation. We secured the services of an interior designer, Cheryl Boughter, to design a facility that would support this belief. The location we now occupy is, we believe, one of the largest, professionally displayed Recognition Facilities in New York State.

• 1500 square feet of Retail Display area.
• 2000 square feet of Office and Engraving area
• 4500 square feet of Production Storage and Assembly space

If you are ever in the Upstate New York area, you are welcome to visit our Spencerport location, we'd love to give you a tour. Click here for a map to our store.

High Technology? Yes we have it!
Four Computerized Engraving Machines with disk file ability to save all work ensures consistency in repeat orders.

Laser Digital Engraving gives us the ability to scan your black and white art work with a laser beam and exactly reproduce what we scan on aluminum or brass sheet stock.

Sublimation Printing allows us to copy your artwork or logo and transfer it to aluminum or brass. Our newest purchase is a full color sublimation equipment. We can now produce full color mugs, hats, T-shirts, or metal plates.

ASI - CD-ROM allows us to search for over 750,000 printable products. Click here to use this search engine right here on our web site.

Laser Engraving cuts stone, leather, cork, marble, glass, acrylic and wood. This process is used for unique high-end awards and is perfect for awards that require logos or graphics.

Associations We Belong To
Awards and Recognition Association (ARA)
Eastern Awards Association (EAA)
Personalization and Identification Institute (P&I)
Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI)
Rochester Trade Exchange
Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce
Ogden-Spencerport Chamber of Commerce

Subscriptions
To stay current with the newest technologies that evolve in our industry, we subscribe to the following publications:

Recognition Review - The Heart Beat of the Recognition Industry. Distributed by the Award & Recognition Association of America.

The Engravers Journal - Current Tips on Engraving and Marking of All Awards for Our Industry.

Award and Engraving Magazine - A & E Magazine Overlaps Information about Engraving Recognition Awards and the Sign Industry.

Personalization and Identification News - Discusses Technical News about Process and Marking Systems.

Publish Magazine - Desktop Publishing's Premier Magazine.

HOW - Discusses Interesting Tricks of the Trade "How To Do" Articles.

American Printer- Deals with All Forms of Printing from T-shirts & Embroidery to Offset Printing.

The Advocate - The Magazine of the US Chamber of Commerce.