Many of the staffers at Imperial were German and Bohemian craftsmen who had been influenced and skilled in the work of Austrian and Bohemian producers of the period such as Loetz, and they sought to bring ever more highly skilled techniques to Imperial production. They produced almost the total spectrum of American glass styles of the era including slag glass, stretch glass, opalescent glass, milk glass, black glass, and novelty glass animals. Imperial was more successful than most other American manufacturer's of Carnival glass in exporting to Europe, and they continued to operate through the depression years of the 1930s in producing a cheaper range of green, pink, and blue Depression glass from earlier Imperial Glass molds. Candlewick glass was a pattern of elegant depression era glass produced in the 1930's by the Imperial Glass Company, still popular for entertaining because of the sheer variety of service pieces available. Candlewick glassware is recognized by the bead work, usually found at the edges of a plate or on the stem of a cake plate. What sets it apart from other, similar glassware of the era is the quality and clarity of the glass.

Imperial stayed in business through the hears of World War II and even began producing reproduction Carnival glass in the 1960s as collector interest began to be revived. They also acquired other struggling but formerly well known glass companies including A. H. Heisey in 1958 and Cambridge Glass Works in 1960. Using the old molds, Imperial continued to produce Heisey and Cambridge designs marketed as Heisey or Cambridge "by Imperial." Lenox bought the company in 1973, beginning a period of decline until finally ceasing operations in 1983.

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