{"id":18448,"date":"2022-05-09T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hofferplastics.com\/?p=18448"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:46:07","slug":"crains-chicago-business-may-9-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofferplastics.com\/press-release\/crains-chicago-business-may-9-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business May 9 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"first-graph\" class=\"inline-ad-para paragraph-newsletter-1\"><a class=\"omnitrack\" data-omnilocation=\"legendarydata\" data-omnilink=\"Hoffer Plastics\">Hoffer Plastics<\/a>\u00a0in South Elgin doesn\u2019t have a CEO. Instead, three siblings have taken charge of the company, which was founded in 1953 by their grandfather, Robert Hoffer, and later run by their father, William, who gave up the CEO title two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-newsletter-2\">Charlotte Hoffer-Canning, 44, is chief culture officer. 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