Does Vermont Awards & Engraving take credit cards?

Yes, Vermont Awards & Engraving takes credit cards.

Does Vermont Awards & Engraving have bike parking?

Yes, Vermont Awards & Engraving has bike parking.

Does Vermont Awards & Engraving have parking?

Yes, Vermont Awards & Engraving has parking options.

Is Vermont Awards & Engraving wheelchair accessible?

Yes, Vermont Awards & Engraving is wheelchair accessible.

Specialties

VAE is LBGTQ+ and woman owned, and our staff currently reflects that, being entirely female/non-binary, mostly LGBTQ+ identifying, in a typically male dominated industry. Our young team of creatives is made up of a wide range of art and design backgrounds, engineering/mechanical expertise, and company leadership brings decades of experience guiding clients to options that really align with the occasion, company vibe, branding and more to ensure the end results are unique and meaningful to the recipients and viewers for years to come. VAE is at its core a design studio that just happens to make physical products. We do a bit of everything really! For metal we're some of the few remaining with the expertise to offer traditional diamond drag CNC engraving which is the only way to produce the kind of light catching texture our engraving does. We also use dye sublimation to add full color designs to various materials. We find laser engraving can produce incredible results on wood, thick acrylic, plastics, leather and more (just not typically metal or glass) and we sand carve crystal, glass and stone. One of the things that makes us unique is our belief in using the best possible process for each material, so unlike many shops that have one or two methods of marking a product, we continue to expand our technologies, techniques and use creative problem solving to make results possible that we've often heard machine manufacturers say "can't be done". We say, challenge accepted!

History

Established in 1959.

Vermont Awards and Engraving was founded in 1959 by Jerry Baden as Baden's House of Trophies. It has had several names and owners since then, becoming Vermont Trophy & Engraving in 1974. It has for many years been considered the highest quality awards manufacturer in the region. In 1996 Steve & Margi Swett bought the company, wanting to buy a value-added business and focus it on the B2B market by developing long-term partnerships with their clients. Their name changed to Vermont Awards and Engraving in 2016 to better reflect the focus of the business, with column "trophies" being a tiny percentage of their work (now discontinued altogether). Their daughter Jessie Swétel is now the majority owner, running it in partnership with Margi - making VAE an LGBTQ+, woman owned and operated next generation family small business!

Meet the Business Owner: Jessie S.

I believe everyone deserves to be recognized for their hard work and even more importantly, that recognition should be done well and thoughtfully, not as a chore to be checked off the to-do list. I've seen enough fumbles to know recognition done poorly can do more damage than doing nothing at all, and a big part of my job is to make sure if you're willing to pay the more premium prices we charge, you'll always leave with something that'll make a powerful, lasting positive impact! DEI seems to be under threat lately, but I'll never drop inclusion as a primary value in our company - be it staff or award recipients. When I found there was nothing really available in terms of nice awards for the blind, it ticked me off enough I worked non-stop until I figured out how to engrave braille into wood, glass, stone and plastic to make awards - not just signage, - accessible to everyone.