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Made in the USA: It Matters!

January 20, 2012

An elevator door (at left) at Atlanta’s big Americasmart January 2012 gift show said a lot about just how important “Made in America” is becoming. This year the show opened up with a dedicated section of made in America products. There was a surprising array of high-quality gifts and apparel represented there, and the aisles [...]

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Spring Packaging Made in the USA

January 6, 2012

Spring has sprung at Nashville Wraps, and we have 5 new Green Way® paper shopping bag designs all made here in the USA. You can see all our Spring Collections online or request our Spring 2012 Catalog.

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Operation Shower Celebrates Military Families

December 28, 2011

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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Christmas – Made in America

December 8, 2011

It has been said that if our $465 billion dollar holiday spending spree was spent on goods made in the USA, it would create 4.6 million jobs or about 1 job per each $100,000 of sales. As of last week (December 2nd, 2011) the number of unemployed Americas (being counted) was 13.3 million or 8.6%. [...]

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Timber Green Woods Makes Sustainable Products a Work of Art

November 25, 2011

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

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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USA Packaging Plant Keeps It Green

October 27, 2011

Recently a few of us at Nashville Wraps had the opportunity to visit one of our manufacturing partners in Portland, Oregon. They have found their niche and are supplying high quality, competitively priced, 100% recycled paper packaging products all across the United States and Canada. So what does it take to compete against the imports? [...]

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A Yuan for American Jobs

October 21, 2011

Regardless of our politics, we all have a yen for more American jobs (I couldn’t resist the pun). That is really what the bi-partisan China Currency Bill could help accomplish. For those of you who have been reading my posts you know that they promote more American products and manufacturing, but we have lots of [...]

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Why American Made is Hard to Find

September 23, 2011

Currently, the president of the United States is on a quest to seek out solutions for American jobs. While I admit I have not personally reviewed the plan, I can speak to what most small and medium business owners believe to be a solid plan for job restoration in the USA. It’s simple, right? Just [...]

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A 1975 tiller and success in business today

April 6, 2010

This is why companies like Troy-Bilt and Nashville Wraps will stand the test of time as long as we continue to provide excellent products and excellent customer service and support.

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