History

A. J. Bros. Inc is privately owned. It was formed in January 1998, by Abizer Ali, as a dealer of promotional products serving K-12 schools in the metro-Detroit area.  After two years of serving the school marketplace, the company quickly enhanced its product and service offerings to meet the core demands of the school marketplace. In 2007 the company decided to expand its customer base in other sectors – Health, Government, Businesses.

Description

A. J. Bros. Inc. is privately owned.  The mission is to integrate a range of products and services to provide turn key solutions to its customers with a particular focus on serving the diverse needs of the educational marketplace.

It strives to provide the best integration of products (furniture, equipment, teaching supplies,

logo imprinted products, awards and trophies) and services (printing, installation and training) so as to create a solution that will save time and money to our customers and help them achieve their goals efficiently.

Our core competencies include

•    the ability to integrate across a diverse range of products and services

•    in-house ability of screen printing, engraving, embroidery.

•    ability to provide installation, training and service on our products.

•    focused experience in the K-12 marketplace

Organization

A. J. Bros. is an S Corporation, incorporated in the State of Michigan. The management team is made up of Abizer Ali and Carolyn McNamara with over 18 years of combined experience in business and finance.  Zoher Bhinderwala is the sales manager with extensive experience in sales and technology.

Market

Broadly defined A. J. Bros. Inc’s market includes K-12 schools and school districts in Michigan and neighboring states. We are expanding our market to Businesses, Government and Hospitals in the same area.  The buyers are typically school principals, administrators, purchasing agents, technology directors, curriculum directors, teachers and parents.  This is a multi-billion dollar marketplace with several funding sources from national & state governments and local private organizations.

Management Team

The A. J. Bros. Inc management team is composed of the owner, Abizer Ali, Carolyn

McNamara, the finance manager, and Zoher Bhinderwala, the sales manager.

Abizer Ali graduated from G. S. Medical College, Bombay India with a bachelor’s degree Physical Therapy.  He migrated to the United States in October, 1987 and worked as an Assistant Director of Physical Therapy and Electroneurophysiology in Georgia, USA. He had certification in Electrophysiology from APTA and was also certified in Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring. In November 1997 he moved to Michigan and started A. J. Bros. Inc..

Carolyn McNamara graduated from the University of Michigan – Dearborn in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.  She has experience in financial analysis and property accounting.

Zoher Bhinderwala has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Bombay and extensive experience in technology solutions and sales.

Products & Services

Our diverse range of products and services are grouped to form unique solutions for our customers.

Furniture – we deliver, assemble and install furniture to support their needs in the office, computer lab or training room, classroom, library, cafeteria and science lab.

 Equipment – we provide interactive audio-video solutions, with installation and training to effectively enhance teaching in classroom or training room.

 Teaching & Office Supplies – we provide supplemental educational materials which support their teaching benchmarks for different grade levels. We also provide day to day office supplies.

 Promotional Products – we provide signs, banners, awards, trophies, incentives, and meeting supplies to improve school / business image.

Apparel – we provide athletic wear, uniforms and spirit wear for Schools. We also provide Embroidered Business Image Apparel.

Facilities

At this time, we have a 4,000 sq ft office/warehouse facility that adequately meets our space needs.

Suppliers

Vendors are chosen carefully in all product areas that are in line with our mission.