From Burlingame to San Leandro: Lahlouh’s Next Chapter

After 29 years, we're packing up.

In 1997, Lahlouh moved into Burlingame as a very different company from the one moving out today.

Back then, print was at the center of our world. Since then, we've added new technology, new capabilities, new locations, another generation of the Lahlouh family, and a whole lot more ways to help our clients bring their ideas to life.

Now, we're moving our West Coast headquarters to 13951 Washington Avenue, San Leandro, California.

So yes, consider this your change-of-address notice. But after 29 years in Burlingame, it feels like a pretty good time for a reintroduction, too.

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The Lahlouh That Moved In — and the One Moving Out

The company leaving Burlingame today looks a lot different from the one that arrived 29 years ago.

We started offering turnkey e-commerce solutions in 2001 and expanded into promotional products as our capabilities continued to grow beyond print. 

In 2005, we changed our name from Color Copy Printing to Lahlouh Inc. — an early sign that “print shop” no longer told the whole story.

In 2007, the first member of the third generation of the Lahlouh family joined the business. That was Tony Lahlouh, who today serves as President and continues to carry the family business forward.

In 2008, we invested in additional Heidelberg presses and Nexpresses. We opened our own die shop in 2014, followed by an Ohio location in 2015 and our first international office in Suzhou, China, in 2016.

That same year, we became the first company in North America to bring in a Fujifilm Onset X3 large format press. Mailing services were launched in both U.S. locations in 2020. Roll-fed production and screen printing followed in 2023. And in 2024, we joined IGC Global Promotions, further connecting Lahlouh to partners and resources around the world.

That's a lot of change. But through all of it, one thing has remained the same.

For 45 years, we've kept one foot firmly planted in what built this business — relationships, service, quality, and doing what we say we're going to do — while continuing to invest in what our clients will need next.

Tradition you can trust. Innovation you can see.

Burlingame was home for nearly three decades of that evolution. Now, we're excited to start the next chapter in San Leandro.

So, Where Is Lahlouh Today?

The short answer: we're in a lot more places than we were in 1997.

San Leandro is now home to our West Coast headquarters. Across the country, our 197,000-square-foot facility in Blue Ash, Ohio — our largest location to date — supports our East Coast and national operations. Opened in 2026, the facility also brought new investments in offset and digital printing to our production lineup.

And our reach goes well beyond the two coasts. Our team in Suzhou gives us people on the ground in China to help manage overseas sourcing, quality control, and production. Through IGC Global Promotions, we're connected to a global network that extends our sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment resources into markets around the world.

But a map only tells you so much about Lahlouh.

The better question is: what can we do from all those places?

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What Can Lahlouh Handle for You?

Probably more than you think.

Print is still a huge part of what we do. Offset, digital, large-format, roll-fed, specialty finishing — paper and ink aren't going anywhere around here.

But your marketing program probably doesn't stop at the printed piece. Neither do we.

Today, Lahlouh brings together quality print, packaging, promotional merchandise, direct mail, fulfillment, distribution, and online solutions under one partner.

And that's where things get interesting.

Say you're launching a new product.

You need a direct mail piece to introduce it. Your sales team needs leave-behinds and sample kits. Your biggest prospects are getting a dimensional package with branded merchandise inside. There are signs and collateral headed to an event. Your field teams need an easy way to reorder materials. And once everything is produced, someone still has to store it, kit it, manage the inventory, and get it to the right people.

That's not seven unrelated projects.

That's one marketing program.

And we can help you treat it like one.

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One Program. One Connected Team.

Bringing more of your marketing together isn't just about having fewer vendors on your contact list. It's about making the pieces work better together.

When print, packaging, promotional merchandise, direct mail, online solutions, and fulfillment are connected, there are fewer handoffs — and more opportunities to make smarter decisions along the way. Packaging can be designed with fulfillment in mind. Print and promotional merchandise can carry the same creative across a campaign. Finished materials can move directly into inventory, and online storefronts can make it easy for teams to order what they need without starting from scratch.

It also means the people working on one part of your program understand what’s happening with the rest of it.

The goal isn't to make your marketing program bigger or more complicated. It's the opposite: bring the moving pieces together, make them easier to manage, and give your team more time to focus on the work that matters.

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New Address. Same Approach.

29 years. One important chapter.

We made a lot of Lahlouh history in Burlingame. It’s where presses arrived, capabilities expanded, technology changed, new locations opened, another generation joined the family business, and plenty of projects we're proud of went out the door.

Now, it's time for a new address.

We're excited to make San Leandro our West Coast home and to keep doing what we've spent the last 45 years doing: listening to what our clients need, figuring out how we can help, and investing in what comes next.

A lot has changed since we first arrived in Burlingame.

The part that matters hasn't.

Tradition you can trust. Innovation you can see.

And if this little change-of-address notice also introduced you to a few things you didn't know Lahlouh could do, even better.

Have something coming up? Whether you need one piece of the program or someone to help bring the whole thing together, let's see what we can make happen.

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Lahlouh is a national marketing services partner providing commercial printing, direct mail, branded merchandise, packaging, fulfillment and distribution, and online storefront solutions. We help healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, nonprofit, technology, financial, and other organizations simplify complex marketing programs by bringing production, inventory management, and distribution together through one connected partner.

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