News — cottage industry
The Beginning
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If you were to read my About Us, on my site here, you'd see a theme running through all that I've done and do when it comes to my business ventures. It's a consistent thread that shouts out that Ruth loves to sell great product and work with the fine people behind that product. End of story. I've had the fortune over the past 30 plus years to have done just that, through various forms and sizes of businesses. But it ALL started very humbly in 1985, working with the artisans of Haiti, spurred by my job changing and no longer...
The Impact of Working with Cottage Industries....
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When representing product I am as drawn to the people, behind the product, as much as I am to the product....not just the face of the company but the artists producing said product. Shining the light here on two companies, Frank Rogers Design and C and S Acosta, both which work as cottage industries, in Mexico and Thailand respectively.