Blegalbloss Relocates Headquarters to Bonita Springs
Blegalbloss is a Cincinnati Ohio based design company that created revolutionary storage boxes and a line of office products to make organization and storage easier. They are currently relocating to Bonita Springs Florida this year and move into a 7300 ft.² building in the Riverview Corporate Center.
Blegalbloss has been a leader in a unique boxing system that makes storage easy and convenient. Their handles are curved for easy pick up with a lockable capability. They’ve been nicknamed the ‘iPad of the storage box’ and the relocating 10 employees to Bonita Springs with projections of hiring local creative and industrial designers.
This falls on the heels of another Fortune 500 company, Hertz Global Holdings, which has relocated its headquarters to Estero this year. Hertz expects to bring about 700 jobs to the Estero and Bonita Springs area when they relocation is complete in 2015.
Similar to Hertz, Blegalbloss will receive financial incentives to move here from the Bonita Springs City Council. They could receive up to $35,000 in cash incentives and the city can provide $1500 for each relocated employee up to 10 positions and $1500 for each new higher up to 10 employees hired within the city for one year. The City Council also would pay $5000 in rent subsidy for a minimum of two years. In order to do so, the company must prove that employees make the above average wage of $36,000 for Lee County.
Blegalbloss founder Will Scott said the incentives are not the only reason for coming here. “Bonita Springs is a great place to live in and I’ve been in South Florida before. This was a really perceptive area to our type of technological company.” One of Blegalbloss’s main customers is Office Depot which is headquartered in Boca Raton just minutes from Bonita Springs. Additionally Scott said, “there is a creative design group and an eclectic pool of individuals to pull from since there is a number of university within 100 miles of Bonita Springs.”
Bonita Springs city manager Carl Schwing said they prefer smaller companies that Bonita Springs could help get them the employees they want to grow the business here in town.
