Tightening the Legacy Belt

We met several weeks back at the Made in New Hampshire kind of kickoff event at your company.

At a former Walmart, as we were talking before we went on, you greeted people by saying, welcome to Walmart, which I thought was pretty cool.

Anyway, you talked a little bit about the Made in New Hampshire event, Made in New Hampshire campaign, and how much it meant to your company.

How can it help you? Is it more of a workforce type of thing? Because when we think about Made in New Hampshire, we think of consumer products, right? I mean, maple syrup and candy and things that people associate with New Hampshire that are made here.

Yeah, we are surrounded by some amazing institutions and educational institutions and our team.

I think those are the biggest ingredients that kind of speak out to me as far as our roots here.

But beyond that, I think one of the things that I really kind of hang on to, I spent a good chunk of my adult life on the West Coast and coming back to New Hampshire, I think I'm constantly impressed by how accessible people are.

I think at that event, I mentioned that, you know, we had a ribbon cutting.

We were able to have the governor come to our place and do the ribbon cutting, which was fantastic.

And so I got Governor Sununu's phone number at the end where he just offered that to me.

And then it was kind of fun at this event.

I mentioned the same thing like, hey, it's just amazing how accessible people are in New Hampshire.

I think that you can so often just ask and what I perceive to be more of a barrier in other places, I feel like people make the time for in New Hampshire and wound up with another governor's phone number after that one.

And like, I mean, again, just tremendous support all around.

So I think it's a really fantastic spot and it fits with our values for the business as well.

So really invested in the family and in the community and keeping manufacturing here.

Yeah, and I noticed that sort of along those lines, you have an internship program too at the company, which know there's we're always talking about workforce development and how important it is especially as our state gets older um can you share a little bit more about your idea on like the importance of you know helping cultivate that future workforce

yeah i've got to say our our english location does an absolutely phenomenal job with this it's a little bit more integrated into their educational system where it's kind of required, but they, they bring on a bunch of interns, uh, every year and they've done a fantastic job with that.

So that's a really critical part of the way that they're structured.

We're trying to do more of that in the U S as well.

We've got a great intern here, right.

Uh, that's just started with us.

And we also, uh, we've donated some of our space.

We, as you mentioned, we wound up in a Walmart.

There was, was an upgrade in square footage for us by quite a bit.