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To Help an Aging Workforce, Your Facility Should Keep Up

July 21, 2026
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experienced warehouse worker

There’s a demographic shift moving through industrial floors right now, and most operations are feeling it before they’ve named it. Experienced employees are staying on the job longer. And the pipeline of new hires coming in behind them isn’t keeping pace.

The takeaway is simple: you’re leaning on your most experienced workers more than you used to, and that’s likely to stay true for a while. The good news is that keeping those people healthy, comfortable, and productive is largely a design problem, and design problems have solutions.

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Posted in Safety & Ergonomics|

Tina Brooks Promoted to Cisco-Eagle Director of Inside Sales

June 30, 2026
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Tina Brooks

Tina Brooks has been named Director of Inside Sales, according to Bryan Gauger, President of Cisco-Eagle

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Posted in ESOP & Company News|

2026 Warehousing Survey

June 9, 2026
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warehouse workers reviewing production flow

Last year, we ran our first customer survey and asked a simple question about your biggest operational challenge. The answers were sharp enough that we made it an annual habit. This is the second year, and this time we asked what you’re prioritizing for 2026, what gave you the most grief in 2025, and what hurdle you see coming.

Three questions, three different lists. The interesting part isn’t any single answer, but how little the lists overlap. What you want to work on, what’s hurting you, and what’s standing in your way are three separate conversations. Here’s what you told us in each.

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Posted in Industry Insights|

Employee Spotlight – Tina Brooks

May 19, 2026
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Tina Brooks with quote

In this edition of the Employee Spotlight, we talk with Tina Brooks, newly promoted Director of Inside Sales.

We caught up with Tina to discuss her unexpected path to Cisco-Eagle, what it means to lead a team she wants to think of itself as a resource, and why this place still feels like home after all these years.

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Posted in ESOP & Company News|

Markus Green is our 2026 Employee-Owner of the Year

April 16, 2026
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employee owner of the year award

Employee ownership is one of the main pillars of the culture that has kept us going through our 55+ year journey as a company. Cisco-Eagle doesn’t just hire employees; we are employee-owners. We annually recognize one team member as our Employee-Owner of the Year, someone who particularly demonstrated what ownership can do for a team and a company.

For 2025-2026, that winner is Markus Green.

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Why Static Walls are a Data Center’s Biggest Risk

March 26, 2026
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data center wire security cages

In the data center world, everyone obsesses over virtual agility. Millions are spent on scalable architectures, software-defined networking, and high-spec power strips. But for some reason, when it is time to carve out the physical floor, people revert to nostalgic construction methods.

If you are running a facility, you know the drill: the only thing you can count on is that things will change. You’ll get a request for more space, more power, or more isolation. If your physical footprint is built with permanent solutions like drywall or heavy sheet metal, then you are building future bottlenecks.

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Posted in Security|

The Golden Zone Is a Moving Target: Slotting for High-SKU Warehouses

February 19, 2026
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Picking aisle with tote carts and flow racking
Warehouse efficiency doesn’t fail all at once. Instead, operations slow down quietly. A few extra steps per order. A little more reaching. More waiting. Congestion forms up when you’re not thinking about it. Over time, the operation becomes heavier, less fluid, and more expensive without anyone noticing exactly when it happened.

In many cases, the cause isn’t labor, effort or faulty equipment. It’s geography.

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Posted in Order Picking & Fulfillment|

Why the Best Warehouse Designs Balance Density and Access

February 5, 2026
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Warehouse with high bay rack storage system and workers in pick aisle

Warehouse buildings have been getting taller: what was once a 16 to 18 foot clear-height facility is now commonly 32 to 40 feet. The logic is straightforward: taller buildings unlock more vertical storage, allowing operators to store more product without expanding the footprint. If you’re in an expensive, landlocked area and need more storage, you need to unlock every vertical inch. High bay pallet rack systems let you use all that air space and can massively increase storage density.

This is a good thing. Until it isn’t.

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Posted in Pallet & Warehouse Racks|

Employee Spotlight – Marlon Richardson

January 27, 2026
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Marlon Richardson with quote

In this edition of the Employee Spotlight, we talk with Marlon Richardson, Safety Manager for Cisco-Eagle. We caught up with Marlon to discuss the philosophy of the “invisible win,” his journey from the Coast Guard to the ESOP, and the intuitive rhythm of a safe warehouse.

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Posted in ESOP & Company News|

Keep Them Coming Back: Optimizing Returns

January 8, 2026
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woman placing barcode on box marked "return"

If you’re selling goods to consumers, returns are a fact of life, especially if you sell online. For 2025, customers returns are expected to reach $849.9 billion in merchandise, 19.3% of all sales. In the online sales world, that percentage was higher at 17.6%. The numbers illustrate what you probably already know about consumer behavior: online shoppers expect to be able to return items just as easily as they bought them.

If returns are not an incidental part of a business, how can you make sure the reverse logistics (the process of receiving items already sold) are working well for you?

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Posted in Warehousing & Distribution|

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