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“Where do you want to move?” Jeffrey King’s father, Tom King, asked his family.

It was the 1960s, and the King family decided to move to the warmer climate of Florida. It would be much different from the likes of Ohio or Pennsylvania, where they had previously lived.

But one constant would remain: plastic.

In 1968, Tom King founded a plastics manufacturing plant in Venice.

In 2001, the company opened its new facility in North Port. Jeffrey King now owns and operates the company off Toledo Blade Boulevard, with some help from his family. His son, Charlie, helps oversee day-to-day operations.

King Plastic Corp. and the YMCA of Southwest Florida are partnering to develop an Early Learning Center that could help educate 150 children from six weeks old through voluntary pre-kindergarten.