Small Business Profiles
The Spice House: Supporting Small Businesses While Staying Tastefully Safe
The Spice House is as much a community as it is an expert spice business. The 60-year-old business has a steady customer base of restaurants, chefs, and foodies, as well as a close-knit network of suppliers (with some so secret, even CEO Charlie Mayer doesn’t know them). Mayer calls The Spice House stores “a sensory…
Name Glo: From Producing Neon to Protecting New York’s Health Care Workers
Name Glo co-owners Sas Simon and Lena Imamura are no strangers to finding innovative ways to fulfill a need – whether that need is custom neon signs or protective gear during a pandemic. The New York-based company’s story began in 2014 when Simon was scouring New York for someone to produce a neon sign of…
Member Highlight: Studley’s Flower Garden
Spring is the busiest season for companies like Studley’s Flower Garden in New Hampshire. For this second-generation family-owned company, the onset of COVID-19 seemed to happen at the worst possible time — especially given the short growing season in New England. But, while initially a scary time for Molly and her team, the pandemic affected…
Member Highlight: GORUCK
The rucksack is more than just a bag. It’s a way of life. That’s how one husband-and-wife team in Florida sees it at least. This military-style hiking backpack has also provided them with a great way to make a living and an even better way to sustain and grow like-minded communities across the country. The…
Member Highlight: BirdieBox
As Congress and policymakers tackle issues within the technology sector, it is crucial they consider the small businesses that directly benefit from digital tools, services, and platforms that larger companies provide – of which BirdieBox is one. A luxury gifting business with a penchant for curating, customizing and packaging prestigious gifts, BirdieBox uses digital tools to…
“British Invasion: How A California-Based British Pub Is Rockin’ and Rollin’ Digital Transformation”
The Cat & Fiddle Los Angeles, California Ashlee Gardner comes from a family of entrepreneurs. Having been born the very same month her parents opened The Cat & Fiddle in 1982, Ashlee and her sisters are no strangers to the restaurant life. The Cat & Fiddle is a British pub and restaurant that has a…
Digital Tools Uncork Success for Oregon Winery
What began as a pear and apple orchard over one hundred years ago, Hillcrest Orchard now stretches over...
Cooking Up Success
Member Spotlight: Frank DiCarlantonio III, Director of Business Operations at Scaffidi Restaurant Group
Dollar Unleashes the Dragon
New tools are employed that sets the company apart from traditional advertising...