Passion for the Business

Kidd spent many summers working on his grandparents' farm in Kentucky. "I learned what real work was—a good conservative-minded approach to work," he says.

Upon graduating from high school, he attended night classes at a local college for one year. Two early jobs helped prep him for his future success. He worked in the savings and loan business doing general work that helped him develop his skills working with people. He also worked for a small label company in the Cincinnati area, getting his feet wet in the industry. It was here that he got an early education in the business. He did just about everything—starting out in shipping and packaging, learning to run a printing press, and working in the office ordering materials and planning jobs.