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Why Vegan Baker Anita Shepherd Loves Our Packaging

February 3, 2012
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This week we are featuring our customer Anita Shepard, owner of Electric Blue, a Brooklyn, New York baking company. Anita is a chef and food writer for Bon Appetit Magazine and various food blogs. She is also a menu consultant for vegan and gluten-free options and has recently started a cooking video series. We are very [...]

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Operation Shower Celebrates Military Families

December 28, 2011
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As 2011 comes to a close, let us take time to remember our soldiers. Operation Shower is an incredible organization that celebrates military families by hosting unit-wide baby showers for them. Over 650 women on military bases for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and National Guard have been helped to date through 18 baby showers.

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Timber Green Woods Makes Sustainable Products a Work of Art

November 25, 2011
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Timber Green Woods in Spring Green, Wisconsin started their little wood-working shop three years ago. With just a laser cutter, they began cutting and engraving wooden snowflake ornaments out of wood scraps left over from their sustainable wood flooring business. Eventually, Matt Van Susteren and his wife Amie ventured into the online world of Etsy [...]

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Norton’s USA – A Uniquely American General Store

November 18, 2011
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In support of the Small Business Saturday “Shop Small” campaign on November 26th, we have asked one of our great customers, Norton’s USA, to tell their story. I was asked to write for the Nashville Wraps blog because I buy from this great company. I have a retail store that sells only American-made products – [...]

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Encouraging Breast Cancer Patients One Gift Basket at a Time

October 14, 2011
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So it’s only fitting to feature one of our customers who is not only a breast cancer survivor herself, but who is also doing something positive to help women who are walking in her shoes.

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Cookies: A Package Deal

September 16, 2011
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Bill Cullins of Bill’s Cookie Jar in Washington state had a challenge for me, “I’m starting a cookie business. If it was your business what baskets, designs, ribbons, bags etc… would you offer for each season and event?”

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Crazy Susan’s is One Smart Cookie

September 2, 2011
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Susan Adair has gained national attention because of her amazing cookies. She started a home-based business as a teenager, using a secret family recipe from her best friend, and is now running a successful cookie store and even appearing on her own Food Network series Tough Cookies. Choosing a business name was a family affair. [...]

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The Organic Nest Proves That Green is a Beautiful Color

August 5, 2011
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Here in Music City we like to pride ourselves in saying “We were country when country wasn’t cool,” like the popular Barbara Mandrell song goes. This is also true about Nashville Wraps’ customer Debbie Foster but in a different way. Debbie was into organics long before organic products and organic farming was ever cool. Her [...]

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Gracie Greene is One Recycled Doll!

July 22, 2011
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After attending countless birthday parties for her children’s friends and shopping for the “perfect gift”, Catherine Zahn realized the gift should be fun and have a meaningful impact on children. That is when her idea of making dolls from recycled products and the concept of Gracie Greene™ was born, along with her company Trashion Dolls.

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More Than Words – An Inspirational Gift Shop

July 1, 2011
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Lee Anne’s one piece of advice for business owners is to keep customer service the #1 priority. Making customers happy by providing a wide selection of unique gifts so they can make others happy too is what makes Lee Ann’s career with More Then Words more than worth it. 

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