Ant Farm is no ordinary advertising specialty company. We’re here to help you from beginning to end. Focusing on everything from general branded merchandise to unique custom promotions and product creation, Ant Farm Specialties will help your brand shine.
Not sure where to start? Browse our site for some ideas or give us a call and tell us about your project. As a distributor for all things promotional, Ant Farm Specialties can guide customers through an infinite number of products and customization possibilities. We can even handle your creative production/program development and print buying. You can leave all the details to us and focus on your business.
Julie Krause Wallace
Julie is Queen of the Hill and has owned Ant Farm Specialties for 12 years. Julie has worked in advertising and fulfillment for over 35 years. She started her career as a print buyer for advertising agencies and then opened her own fulfillment business which she successfully ran for five years and sold. For the past 18 years, Julie has been self-employed as a project manager, print buyer and ad specialty distributor. Over the course of her career, Julie has gained immense exposure to all things print and fulfillment. She learned the promotional products world by being a customer and learning what she liked and didn’t like about the ad promo business. As a distributor, this knowledge allows her to understand what her customers are looking for in both a vendor and a product.
Julie has extensive knowledge in all forms of print media: offset printing (sheet-fed and web), digital printing, screen-printing, retail P.O.P., package printing, premium purchases, and fulfillment. She has purchased everything: flyers, brochures, trade show displays, point-of-purchase displays, outdoor, vinyl bus wraps, and product packaging. Julie has a broad base of vendors throughout the country.
Now that Julie is an empty nester, she likes to take trips to vineyards and distilleries with family and friends. She loves investigating different types of spirits and their respective regions. Julie simply loves traveling and experiencing all that goes with it. Her favorite activity on every trip is doing a Secret Food Tour and trying local foods at out of the way places.
julie@antfarmspecialties.com
Colleen Dienstbier
Colleen is Queen of Customer Service for Ant Farm Specialties, where she helps
solve clients' daily needs and address their long-term growth goals. Colleen has been in the
advertising world for three decades after earning her degree in Advertising, working in a wide
variety of areas with production and project management as a focus. She has specialty
advertising in her blood, as her father worked in the business for many years while she grew up.
As he liked to say, "he put his kids through college by selling pens and pencils!" Colleen recently
joined Ant Farm Specialties (and rejoined friend and longtime business associate Julie Krause
Wallace) after a period away from full-time employment, during which she took care of raising
her four children (with a little help from her husband). Now that they are in high school and
college, she's excited to get back to her favorite type of work. As a result of LOTS of time spent
with her kids, she is an avid soccer and swimming fan, so if you'd like to chat about that while
working with her, she'd be thrilled to do so.
colleen@antfarmspecialties.com
Rob Wallace
Rob is Prints Charming of Ant Farm Specialties where he helps with print
projects and consults with different vendors to find the best one for each
situation. Rob has been in the pre-press and printing space full time since
1984. He is a third-generation pre-press specialist with his grandfather
founding Wallace Engraving Company in 1932 and his father taking over
the reigns in 1968. Rob worked for Wallace Engraving Company until it was
sold to The Whitley Company where he added printing experience to his
already broad knowledge.
He is skilled in pre-press management, print management, offset printing
(web and sheetfed), digital printing, IT infrastructure management, and
distribution logistics. With the ability to see all sides of an issue, get to the
root cause, and determine effective solutions, he has the ability to think a
project through. Rob has the flexibility and skills required to transform and
excel in an ever-changing industry. Some more specific skills include
Kodak Prinergy Connect and InSite administration, as well as extensive
knowledge of color theory related to print.
Rob loves to be outdoors either fishing, hunting, gardening, driving his ‘73
Bronco, or simply enjoying nature. A tinkerer at heart, he loves to fix things
that need fixin’! Most of all, Rob loves spending time with his family.
rob@antfarmspecialties.com
Winnie, The Mascot
Winnie is Julie’s granddog and spends a lot of time at Julie’s office. She is often heard in the background of Julie’s phone calls playing and alerting Julie of deliveries! Winnie loves visiting Ant Farm clients and spreading her joy of life.