Coffee cup sleeves maker comes to Sparks

BriteVision Media, a company that produces sleeves for coffee cups, has leased a 55,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sparks.

The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada said the company initially is expected to employ four to six workers when the facility on Coney Island Drive opens.

Among the products developed by San Francisco-based BriteVision is a cardboard sleeve that responds to heat, generating an advertising message.

The advertising medium was used by Hyundai to promote a new SUV to customers at about 2,000 upscale coffee houses nationwide last fall.

The company has contracted with about 6,000 coffee houses in the nation's top 70 markets for use of its cardboard sleeves.

Eric Bennett and Gordon Zack, the industrial team of CB Richard Ellis in Reno, negotiated the company's lease.