About Us
Helping brands create tangible experiences
Since 1983, we’ve collaborated with amazing clients on award-winning presentation materials and innovative luxury packaging solutions.
Domestic Partner
Corporate Image is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, with sales representatives located across the United States. All of our presentation materials and CI RIGIDBOX® packaging are manufactured right here in the heartland while our sales team is near you. Partnering with a domestic design and manufacturing company makes collaboration easier, transit times shorter, and leads to a better customer experience.
Employee Owned
Corporate Image is a 100% employee-owned company. Partnering with an ESOP company means working with a dedicated and informed team of professionals who all have a genuine stake in their work. Our employee-owners have a deep knowledge of our products and processes and are dedicated to delivering solutions for your brand as if it was our own. Our entire team collaborates to make sure your experience with Corporate Image is unparalleled.
LBS
LBS helps create beautiful, structurally sound books and packaging through profound industry expertise, vast product offering, and exceptional service. LBS has been serving the bookbinding and luxury packaging industries since 1921, always adapting and evolving to anticipate the needs of customers. The company is the nation’s leading supplier of cover materials, end sheets, cover boards, reinforcing materials, headbands, and adhesives for the book and packaging markets.
Archival Products
Archival Products creates specialty archival enclosures that benefit the future by preserving history. This division offers innovative solutions for the preservation and conservation of printed materials. It designs and manufactures archivally sound enclosures, pamphlet binders, archival polyester sleeves, and more for the preservation community. In fact, Archival Products serves some of the country’s most prestigious libraries and academic institutions.
Our History
- 1921
Herzberg bindery of Des Moines, today LBS, is founded
- 1980
Fritz James buys the company from his relatives, leading to three divisions
- 1983
Corporate Image is founded
- 1986
Archival Products is founded
- 2014
LBS became 100% employee-owned, ushering in a period of growth through acquisition
- 2021
Corporate Image launches CI RIGIDBOX® packaging line
LBS acquires Gane Brothers & Lane and FIM Headbands- 2022
LBS acquires Cover Materials Sales, Inc.
The Iowa/Nebraska Chapter of The ESOP Association
2023 Employee Owned Company of the Year
This award recognizes companies with an exemplary commitment to employee ownership through involvement with The ESOP Association and its programs, clear communication with their employee owners, and their commitment to The ESOP Association’s vision of endorsing employee participation, wealth creation, and individual dignity and worth.
New Jersey Packaging Executives Club
42nd Annual Package of the Year Awards: Bronze Award – Promotional Category – G-Style Flat Fold CI RIGIDBOX™ Package
The New Jersey Packaging Executive Club showcases the amazing work that’s being done in packaging. They consider the following rationale when selecting award winners: design excellence, shelf impact, uniqueness, cost effectiveness, and graphic presentation.
New Jersey Packaging Executives Club
42nd Annual Package of the Year Awards: Honorable Mention – Promotional Category – Neenah Paper Book Style CI RIGIDBOX™ Package
The New Jersey Packaging Executive Club showcases the amazing work that’s being done in packaging. They consider the following rationale when selecting award winners: design excellence, shelf impact, uniqueness, cost effectiveness, and graphic presentation.
GD USA
2022 American Package Design Awards: JJ Snack Foods CI RIGIDBOX™ Package
The 2022 GD USA showcase features more than 330 winning projects and campaigns from talented design firms, agencies, inhouse departments and institutions, scaled from nearly ten times the entries. Why is package design so vital? Makers, marketers and sellers are challenged as never before to convey the message, tell the story, advance the brand, make the sale. We celebrate beauty, of course, but more importantly, the power of design to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth. All against the backdrop of a packaging industry whose growth is expected to accelerate through the decade.
GD USA
2022 American Graphic Design Awards: Corporate Image CI RIGIDBOX™ Promotional Package
The 2022 GD USA showcase features more than 330 winning projects and campaigns from talented design firms, agencies, inhouse departments and institutions, scaled from nearly ten times the entries. Why is package design so vital? Makers, marketers and sellers are challenged as never before to convey the message, tell the story, advance the brand, make the sale. We celebrate beauty, of course, but more importantly, the power of design to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth. All against the backdrop of a packaging industry whose growth is expected to accelerate through the decade.
Dieline Awards
2022 Shortlist: Chico’s CI RIGIDBOX™ Package
Dieline Awards is where big ideas intersect with influential design, where impressive innovation meets design excellence. Dieline welcomes the risk takers, the creative thinkers, and the industry innovators to show us what the future of packaging can look like—and how better packaging will make a better planet.
ESKA Graphic Board B.V. - Netherlands
Best Binder in the World 2011: Artesian Cancer Center Flexhinge Binder
“We received many contributions but your product impressed the jury. The binder has a natural look with a nicely made stamp of the logo. The grooves in the back add to the classic appearance and make it a very flexible and strong binder. This product proves your creativity and craftsmanship.”
Kees Van Zijderveld, CEO ESKA Graphic Board B.V. & Gert Van Der Veen, Commercial Director ESKA Graphic Board B.V.
