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Bank-A-Count Corporation is a custom small business check printer headquartered in the Rudolph, WI.

Bank-A-Count Corp. is based in Rudolph, Wisconsin. Its printing and fulfillment, call center, and administrative functions are all run from various locations in Rudolph with a secondary administrative offices location in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.

Company History
Bank-A-Count Corp. became incorporated on April 12, 1956 with Charles "Chuck" Amann as President. Bank-A-Count Corp began in the basement of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, Rudolph with 3 employees. Chuck Amann was president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank at that time. The company was ran out of the basement of a local bank in Rudolph.

Bank-A-Count began producing amortization schedules on an electronic accounting machine. This unit was replaced in 1964 with an IBM 1440 computer system with 4K memory which later was upgraded to 8K. Then, to handle growing volume while adding communications capabilities, in 1977 the company installed an IBM System/370 Model 115 with 160K memory running under a DOS/VS. Original Board Members included :
 * Charles Amann - President & Cashier of Farmers & Merchants Bank Rudolph, WI
 * Attorney Lloyd Chambers - Graves, Chambers, & Nash
 * Chester Bell - President Johnson Hills Department Store
 * K.B. Willett - Vice President of Public Relations of Hardware Mutual Stevens Point (Now known as Sentry Insurance)
 * Hugh A Weichert, Detroit management consultant (Was also a consultant to the Chrysler Corp & assistant to the president of the Studebaker - Packer Corp.)

Construction of its current headquarters and main production plant in Rudolph, WI was completed in 1985, with a second manufacturing location built in Rudolph in 2000 for disaster recovery and efficiency purposes. In 2010, Bank-A-Count added administrative offices in the nearby city of Wisconsin Rapids. The company has undergone a number of facility expansions in its history, including expansion projects in 2012 that created additional space in both Rudolph and Wisconsin Rapids locations.

Upon Chuck Amann's death in 1977, majority ownership passed to Jim Janz and Gene Krutza. During this time the Board of Directors consisted of:
 * Jim Janz
 * Dale Easterson
 * Eugene Krutza - Was also President of Farmer's & Merchant Bank during this time.
 * Darwin Blanke
 * Jim Prellwitz - Accountant from Milwaukee, WI

Jim Janz and Gene Krutza managed the business until their retirement in 2004. The business was purchased in 2004 by majority owner Scott Blanke and a group including members of the Blanke family and Vice President Dale Aumann. In 2004, Scott Blanke purchased Bank-A-Count Corp. from Jim Janz & Eugene Krutza and became President of the company and Dale Aumann stayed on as Vice President.

Board Members
Current board members included:
 * Scott Blanke (CEO)
 * Darwin Blanke
 * Dale Aumann (VP)
 * Nancy Hess
 * Pat Daly

Business Products
Bank-A-Count Corp. offers to its customers a wide verity of products including :
 * Computer Checks
 * Personal Checks
 * Payment Coupon Books
 * Custom Signature Stamps
 * Deposit Tickets