Updates

Surprisingly, our art department had different opinions about the movie they saw last Friday.

Shane, an artist, said, "It was awesome!"

Anita, another artist, said, "It sucked! It was a guy’s movie!” She said she would have preferred to see "Wild Hogs" instead.

Willard, an artist, said, "I thought "300" was good."

"300" is a war movie about the Spartans and some battle.

It has been really quiet with our sales staff gone to the Housewares Show in Chicago.

Phyllis, our administrative assistant, said, "I miss the bustle and banter, but it’ll be exciting when they come back tomorrow and we hear how well the show went."

Paul, our CEO, and Dan, in our planning department, are at the Kohl's vendor summit meeting today and tomorrow, getting more training on our partnership with Kohl's. It’s really amazing how much it takes to ship to large companies like them! There are so many details that all have to be completed and come together just right and just in time in order for the relationship to work. And it’s the same with all the other key account customers we ship to. Kohl's is our largest customer.

Recognition from Kohl's

Today we had two visitors from Kohl's come to see us. They presented us with a Vendor Accuracy Certification. This was quite an honor. They said we are the 19th vendor out of the 24 vendors that have received this certification. They said that we are in the top 1% of vendors that ship to them. We were excited to receive this recognition. They also told us that about 24 out of 3,000 vendors have received this certification.

We have been shipping our candles to Kohl's for years. This helped to strengthen our relationship with them. Our production team is doing an excellent job! We would like to thank them for all of their hard work and dedication.