January 2014
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we could best demonstrate a commitment to
quality – and that was a lifetime warranty,”
he says. “From the manufacturer, you’re only
getting 90 days to a year, max. And in a lot
of cases, the secondary market products are
more reliable because everything is tested
before it ships.
“With the manufacturer, it comes off the
line and is put in a box.”
The recently completed calendar year was
one of significant recognition for the com-
pany.
Worldwide Supply was included on Inc.
magazine’s annual listing of the nation’s fast-
est-growing private companies for the fourth
consecutive year. It earned an award for out-
standing website in the telecommunications
category from the Web Marketing Associa-
tion. And, in an honor that was especially re-
warding for a lifelong Garden State resident,
it was named one of the best places to work
inNew Jersey as part of a survey of businesses
coordinated by the Best Companies Group.
VALIDATING THE
PRINCIPLES
More so than the bottom-line success,
VanOrden says, he gets more satisfaction
from validation of the internal approaches
he’s gleaned along the way. The company
now boasts a staff of 60 employees and op-
erates from its home office in Franklin, N.J.,
as well as out-of-state locales in Boston, New
Hampshire, California, New York, Colo-
rado, Texas, North Carolina and Hawaii, as
well as locations in Mexico, Columbia and
Chile.
“What we did from the very beginning,
we wanted to govern and operate the busi-
