“I have erected a monument longer lasting than bronze” – Horace was making a poet’s boast about immortality through art when he wrote that in his Odes and Epodes, but he should have checked out Denise A. Tuite’s (DAT) iron end tables and bronze fireplace grates!
Denise, a Benchmark client and fellow female business owner, has been honing her craft since beginning her career in the 1970s in antiques. She began manufacturing reproduction furniture, to make replicas of eighteenth-...
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Woman-owned clothing store on Court Street: Lily
Lily is a woman-owned clothing store in NYC’s Cobble Hill on Court Street. Benchmark has printed labels for their bags. Jennifer Gerien runs the place, which was established in 1999. Their shelves are brimming with plenty of cute gear, from dresses to jumpsuits to PJ’s and more.
Benchmark printed labels for their paper bags and their jewelry boxes.
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Wonderland Home sources good ingredients
Here’s a local entrepreneur for our woman-owned business series: Audrey Hilfiger. This model/florist New Yorker ordered promotional materials from Benchmark for her Wonderland Home line of environmentally friendly candles. Also, we printed the stylish wrappers for her Wonderland Body line of soaps (see above). The wrap is on earth-tone paper with visible fibers that reinforces her natural, sustainable ingredient sourcing.
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Woman-owned AuH20 bolsters sustainable shopping
Kate Goldwater runs AuH2O Goldwater Thriftique, located in Manhattan’s East Village. What is packed into this woman-owned business’s rebus name? Think chemistry class: “Au” for “Gold-” and “H2O” for “-water.” “Thriftique,” as they explain, is “a boutique with often thrift store prices … we want vintage, secondhand, and recycled clothing to be for everyone.” They have permanent $5 and $10 racks.
Benchmark printed round labels with their logo and business cards.
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Poetry and prose shed light on borderlands of Mexico, Texas, Puerto Rico, Cuba and more: the Hostos Review
“[B]lind man at the border / exchanging quetzales for dollars / we could not do that math” Sheila Maldonado, “Shotgun: Road to Guatemala from Honduras,” photo essay, Hostos Review, No. 18
Editor Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla has just rolled out a new issue of Hostos Review / Revista Hortosiana! This journal features poetry and prose by eighteen Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latina/o writers in Spanish, English, and other languages. The Latin American Writers Institute (LAWI),...
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Woman-owned Realty Collective active in Red Hook community
You know the phrases businesses can’t seem to stop uttering in 2022: “staffing issues,” “inflation,” “supply chain” and “$6 gas.” Regardless, these last few weeks Benchmark has been seeing a wave of clients calling us after months of lying low on their promotional materials. One reason I love the print industry is this way that it lets us keep a finger on the pulse of the small business economy. The real estate industry, too, hears the heartbeat of the economy loud and clear. Just ask ...
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Pet care prospers amid pandemic: Sonia’s Pet Grooming
The pandemic rocked a seismic shift in many industries, but pet care has had a rally. According to Forbes, “78% of pet owners acquired pets during the pandemic. Then, with the migration back to the brick-and-mortars, Forbes continues, “The majority of pet owners have increased spending on their pets to compensate for being away from home more.”
Well, pet care is
the bailiwick of our next featured minority woman-owned business!
Drumroll, please: Sonia Nathan runs Sonia’s
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Fellow woman-owned business Brooklyn Robot Foundry inspires young engineers
Founder and owner of Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Jenny Young
“When we picked [our son] up, he greeted us beaming and said, ‘That was the best! I am going back there tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day.’” These are the words of a thankful parent whose boy’s interest has been piqued and imagination set in motion by the robot-building classes at Brooklyn Robot Foundry.
Since 2011, Jenny Young has run Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Benchmark client and fellow woman-owned busine...
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C’est si bon with Claire and Odile at WantedDesign
At WantedDesign Manhattan in May 2022, Odile Hainaut (center) and Claire Pijoulat (right), Co-Founders of WantedDesign, initiating the Emerging Designers Showcase hosted by Amy Devers| Jenna Bascom Photography
Two extremely stylish polyglot ladies are at the helm of our next featured women-owned business client, the design fair WantedDesign: Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat. As if we needed any more proof that Canva and its ilk (hiss) will never hold a candle to living, breathing pro...
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Why did colonists burn down NYC in 1776? Joyce Gold will tell you, on a walking tour
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano once recounted an African proverb: “Until the gazelles write their own history, the lions will be the heroes of the hunt.” All the more reason to find out what’s gone down in this capital city of world finance by booking a historic walking tour!
Joyce Gold runs Joyce Gold History Tours of New York, another Benchmark client who is a fellow woman-owned business. She is a New York history teacher at New York University and The New School. She has...
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