Welcome to
Vanguard Companies!

WE ARE:

A customer-driven and growth-focused organization that is easy to do business with while driving best-in-class results through creativity, innovation, and solutions-based actions.

A people-centric, humble culture with an industry-leading team collaborating through diversity, honesty, and a passion to drive for success.

A safety-committed company that strives to protect the team, encourages sustainable practices to protect our environment and natural resources, while delivering reliable execution utilizing continuous improvement methodology to bring value to our business.

A company that works to accelerate profitability to invest in the people, processes, and systems necessary to succeed with the right partners while earning a good return for stakeholders.

We live sustainably—from the construction of our 400,000 sq. ft. underground facility down to the daily operations within our facility. Our commitment to sustainability has been lauded by the KC Economic Development Corporation, Packaging World magazine and the Kansas City Business Journal. In addition to our own sustainability initiatives, Vanguard Companies is committed to using vendors who share its sustainable philosophies.

Our Chain of Custody certifications verify that our suppliers track the flow of certified wood through the supply chain & across borders through each successive stage, including processing, information, and manufacturing the final product.

The fastest way to get into sustainability is to partner with a vendor already into it.

At Vanguard Companies, we strive to create a diverse environment which embraces difference and fosters inclusion. We believe that valuing diversity and inclusiveness is a competitive differentiator, enabling us to achieve our vision to create unmatched value for our employees, customers, and business partners. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.

Our Company embraces and supports employees’ differences in age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, nationality or national origin, family, or marital status, physical, mental and development abilities, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, skin color, social or economic class, education, work and behavioral styles, political affiliation, military service, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.