Inflated Profits

David Scherba's business, Inflatable Images (inflatableimages.com), is one of the largest manufacturers of nonhelium inflatable advertising in the U.S. At his facility in Brunswick, Ohio, David Scherba, 50, and his brother Robert, 49, have sewn everything from a 50-foot Vince Lombardi Trophy used in Super Bowl pregame shows to the inflated cartoon characters that decorate floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. In union strongholds such as New York and Chicago, the Scherbas provide the inflatable rats used on picket lines to protest non-union labor at a job site. And Scherba has added two new management-mocking props to his product line: the cigar-chomping Greedy Pig and the Fat Cat, sporting a diamond pinky ring.