Taylor McClangan has known for years of retail sale that there are a lot of great ideas for products that never come to the market because its creators cannot find the manufacturer.
For this reason, its Small Ravenswood has started in Ravenswood.
The company, which was founded in 2018 with her husband, Nathaniel Cook, trained entrepreneurs, assisting design and materials and manufacturing sources. It uses companies in India and Nepal that offer moral, transparent and sustainable methods. Its customers have annual revenues ranging from about $ 250,000 to $ 4 million.
“We help companies in the United States get things made with manufacturers that have long -term relationships,” said Maccanan, 37, who lives in Park Ridge.
Business shared office spaces with Matta Traders and Tori Grace Outits at 5112 N. Ravenswood ave.
The presence of his office in the midst of the retail showroom is a suitable setting, as customers can examine the new Tori Grace Fair Trade groups. The small store helped the brand find a factory, ranging from the design and artwork and choosing a fabric mixture.
The iconic but less tourist codes are covered with “DIBS” chairs in Marshall Field to winter.
“Everything is from zero,” said McLingan. “It is much unique.”
Pajama collection with iconic Chicago symbols from Tori Grace. Help a small retail store to find pajamas manufacturers.
For another project, Small Small Small SMLL got production from the tea tea for Justea, a fair trade company in Canada, which is involved with Kenyan farmers.
Small Shop helps another entrepreneur to create functional bags using the evacuated skin in an environmentally proper way.
“All of this is due to a good job with good people,” said McLingan.
Besides the fun part of the help and manufacture of moral sources, small stores deal with the red tape, such as export, shipping, fees and appropriate stickers until shipments are launched through customs.
The company has a part -time employee and two temporary workers. He also works with a number of contractors, including a part -time employee in New York and three contractors in India.
The annual sales for the past year were about $ 160,000. MCCLENEGAN's desire to develop business is 30 % and expand its employees.
McLingan seeks help and advice from women's business groups. It is also looking for external financing after the company's self -financing.
Interest rates are not large for borrowers at the present time, but they do not feel frustrated. “Slow and fixed the race wins,” she said.
The moral source market is smaller compared to the demand for consumers on collective retailers such as Walmart and Target, but McClenaghan said loyalty could be compensated for it.
“We are tense because many small companies have been closed,” she said. “But at the same time, there is a continuous trend of consumers who want to feel connected to their money. I think companies have a meaningful story they tell more leakage.”
One field of anxiety is definitions. President Donald Trump said he would impose “mutual” definitions on goods from India and other countries, starting on Wednesday.
A tariff was imposed on products from Canada and Mexico in a hurry, pulled and then imposed. These, along with 25 % definitions on aluminum and steel imports, caused the headaches to us importers.
McLingan said the sudden tariff for the elements imported from India or Nepal could bring a “huge increase” in the cost of the unit of small sources of customers.
The small store, Taylor McClangan, at her office in Ravenzod.
She said that American manufacturers will have definitions because many ingredients come from abroad.
She hopes that with India – which has a high tariff for some American goods entering its country – any new import tariff will be dropped.
“I feel that it is still possible to impose it quickly, but then it will go again,” said McLinagan. “We will see.”
If you manage a magic stick, McLeinagan said there is greater supervision of direct products for consumers coming to the United States from retailers such as TEMU, whose goods with cheap prices made of bad materials are often produced in dangerous conditions.
Despite the threat of customs duties and competitors who cut the corners, the McCleneghan hopes that the year 2025 is the year in which it becomes a little small store.
“I am optimistic in general,” she said. “My experience in small business so far is that you are getting a reward for hard work. I mean, modestly. I love it – to excite and difficult.”
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The company is training entrepreneurs, and they work with them to design, material sources and manufacturing. It uses companies in India and Nepal that offer moral, transparent and sustainable methods.
