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joli
03-12-2007, 10:55 AM
Saw this on one of the yahoogroups and thought that I would post it here. Great read and very informative regarding Miabella!
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/business/16881058 (http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/business/16881058.htm) .htm
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/business/16881058 (http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/business/16881058.htm) .htm
Lori Moreno
03-12-2007, 12:00 PM
WOW!!!
Thanks "Fearless Leader" Yolanda!
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Thanks "Fearless Leader" Yolanda!
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joli
03-12-2007, 12:05 PM
Lori Zouten posted this on some of the yahoogroups. There is a second article but she didn't post the link! Lori if you are on this board please post it as we would like to read it! Thanks!
Yolanda
Yolanda
AvScents
03-12-2007, 12:57 PM
Awesome smileys/smiley17.gif
Candlemama
03-12-2007, 01:51 PM
That is SO cool!smileys/smiley32.gif
Silverback
03-12-2007, 02:50 PM
Here is the first part of the articleprinted in the Times Leader, a Pennsylvania newspaper. I'm copying and pastingit here instead of putting the link.
This is GREAT stuff and good for sharing with prospects. It makes me super proud to be a part of this company and to be working with theexceptional leadership of Bobby, Charlie, Lynn and Carmen.
Here's to all of our our combined success!! smileys/smiley1.gif
<H1>Smells like the team spirit</H1>
<H2>Candle makers’ philosophy: Have fun, make money</H2>
<H5>By RON BARTIZEK</H5>
<H6>rbartizek@timeslead er.com (rbartizek@timesleader.com)</H6>
WILKES-BARRE – The mixture of ingredients used to make Mia Bella candles is secret.
The formula for the success of Scent-Sations, Inc., the company behind the aromatic jars made on George Avenue in the city’s Parsons section, is easier to discern. It’s just not the usual one touted in how-to books and business school lecture halls.
“Have fun, make money,” sums up Bob Scocozzo, a partner in the business that was formed in 2002 and is expected to reach $15 million in sales this year. That attitude carries over to the company’s relationship with its 6,000 distributors, who market the candles at home parties, craft shows and simply by taking samples along as they go about their daily business.
“We don’t want people to be in stress,” Scocozzo said.
Neither he nor partners Charles Umphred and Carmen Milazzo looked like harried entrepreneurs during a recent interview in Scocozzo’s office. Dressed in jeans and with a Blackberry nowhere in sight, they resembled aging rock musicians more than operators of a business that is growing at nearly 50 percent a year. But their appearance only thinly camouflaged an underlying ambition to grow.
Partnerships can be a volatile mix, but this one is thriving in part because each brings unique talents and the maturity of having run a business before.
“We don’t try to interfere with each other’s areas,” Umphred said.
Like their duties, the trio’s styles contrast but don’t clash. While Scocozzo races through the plant, eager to describe every detail, Milazzo seems almost disinterested, until the topic turns to production, his area of expertise. Umphred splits the difference, with flowing hair and an amiable nature.
While Carmen Milazzo and his wife Lynn oversee manufacturing, Scocozzo acts as CEO and Umphred manages relationships with distributors.
There was less time for fun and more long hours in the early days of the business.
“You don’t get something like this running overnight,” Carmen Milazzo said. “In the beginning we just worked to increase our inventory,” and it took two years to find and develop a reliable workforce. Profits were plowed back into the business.
Now Umphred said a typical week is 35 to 40 hours and Scent-Sations is comfortably profitable. He credits technology, such as e-mail that eases communication with vendors and distributors, with helping cut the time demands.
Already doing $10 million in annual sales, Scent-Sations could be a $100 million company within a decade by commanding just 10 percent of sales by domestic manufacturers in the candle industry, Umphred, 54, believes.
The beginning
This local powerhouse got its start not as someone’s MBA thesis or even on the back of an envelope. Instead it began when Scocozzo, 57, helped put together a fundraiser selling scented candles for his son’s youth basketball team. When the Milazzos delivered the candles, Carmen mentioned that he had developed a new version made with alternative materials that produce less soot and toxins than paraffin, the main ingredient in most candles.
Milazzo, 57, knew that Scocozzo had been a direct marketer and asked for advice on how best to sell the new candles. Scocozzo was so excited at the potential that he and Umphred, already business partners, signed Milazzo to an exclusive agreement that led to an equal three-way partnership.
“I realized nobody was doing anything” with non-paraffin candles, Scocozzo said.
The Mia Bella name was borrowed from Scocozzo’s daughter.
At the time Scocozzo and Umphred were selling skin care and nutritional products through a multi-level marketing network of distributors. They got into marketing in 1988 after Umphred left a 20-year career as a printer at the Sunday Independent.
Scocozzo at the time was running the Sarno & Son formal wear franchise store on North Main Street. By 1990 he sold the franchise back and both devoted full time to their marketing efforts.
The contacts they had made over the years helped them get the new venture off the ground.
“We just called people we knew in marketing,” Scocozzo said.
Now Scent-Sations takes up all their time, Umphred said, although they still receive some residual income from sales networks they established in the past.
Growing fast
Carmen and Lynn Milazzo started making candles at their home in 1995, selling them at CarLyn’s Craft Gallery, their store in Kingston. But worried about concerns being raised about toxic soot generated by paraffin candles, which are made from petroleum, Carmen began to work on a line made with other waxes.
At first he tried 100 percent soy, but it would not absorb enough fragrance to maintain the couple’s reputation for producing exceptionally pungent candles, Lynn Milazzo, 47, said. Eventually Carmen came up with a formula that uses soy and vegetable based waxes.
The Milazzos continued to make candles by hand at their home, using nearly every room.
“My parlor was a warehouse,” Carmen said. Wax was melted on the couple’s kitchen stove and poured into canning jars.
Production first graduated from hand work to a $25,000 machine, purchased on credit cards, that an operator could use to fill one jar at a time. The machine still is used to top off jars filled on a machine that can pump out eight jars or 16 votive-sized candles at a time.
Growing demand led to leasing production space first in Nanticoke, then in Forty Fort, as well as a warehouse in Wilkes-Barre. In September 2004, just two years after the company was formed, Scent-Sations moved into its present 28,000-square- foot facility on George Avenue, next to Schiel’s Market.
“And we’re outgrowing this building now,” Scocozzo said, describing the need for more space within a year to handle demand for candles and allow the introduction of new products.
“We took baby steps because we didn’t have big bucks behind us,” he said. Eventually he anticipates needing three distinct facilities – an office, a manufacturing plant and a shipping/warehouse building.
The product line already includes candles in several sizes and more than 90 fragrances, natural soaps, body wash, hand wash and even car fresheners. “We have a whole line of skin care ready to go in 2008,” once there is room to produce it, Scocozzo said.
Candles first
For now candles are the mainstay of Scent-Sations’ business, with more than five million sold. And while Scocozzo claims Mia Bella candles smell better than others, that quality comes at a price.
“It’s one of the most difficult candles to make,” Carmen Milazzo said. “Even with machinery it’s not very production friendly. It’s just the best.”
Scocozzo says they’re also the most expensive to manufacture, partly because they contain more fragrance than any other candle. “That’s our claim to fame.”
The biggest selling fragrance by far is sweet orange and chili pepper, which Umphred said was created in Europe as a soap scent. Scent-Sations asked to use it in a candle and it sold so well that it is now exclusively theirs.
“They have locked away the formula for us,” Umphred said.
Scocozzo said other suppliers now court Scent-Sations because of its rapid growth, particularly as more candle companies move production out of the United States. For example, introducing a new candle – which Scent-Sations does each month – requires about a ton of fragrance, with the promise of continuing orders if it’s a success.
Umphred said another key to Scent-Sations’ rapid growth is its direct sales method. He anticipates 50,000 distributors will be selling Mia Bella products within a decade, and that the best of them will earn $1 million annually. Already the top distributors are making $200,000 and, he says, probably not working more than a normal week.
Distributor Sandy Simond, Allentown, finds both the product and the financial opportunity attractive. She first bought a Mia Bella candle from another distributor about four years ago.
“I was hooked from the moment I started burning it,” she said, because of the long-lasting fragrance. So she contacted Scocozzo and became one of the first distributors.
Simond, 46, plans to retire from her job as a project coordinator for clinical medical trials by age 50 and live on the proceeds from Mia Bella product sales.
“It is an incredibly easy and affordable business to start,” she said.
THE DETAILS
<HR color=#cccccc SIZE=1>
Scent-Sations, Inc.
Founded: Sept. 2002
Ownership: Equal partners Bob Scocozzo, Charles Umphred and Carmen Milazzo
Products: Mia Bella branded candles and other scented products
2006 Sales: Approximately $10 million. Anticipated $15 million in 2007
Employees: 70
Location: 1 George Ave., Parsons
Phone: 270-9010
Web site: www.scent-team (http://www.scent-team.com/). com
<HR color=#cccccc SIZE=1>
Ron Bartizek, Times Leader business editor, may be reached at 970-7157.
This is GREAT stuff and good for sharing with prospects. It makes me super proud to be a part of this company and to be working with theexceptional leadership of Bobby, Charlie, Lynn and Carmen.
Here's to all of our our combined success!! smileys/smiley1.gif
<H1>Smells like the team spirit</H1>
<H2>Candle makers’ philosophy: Have fun, make money</H2>
<H5>By RON BARTIZEK</H5>
<H6>rbartizek@timeslead er.com (rbartizek@timesleader.com)</H6>
WILKES-BARRE – The mixture of ingredients used to make Mia Bella candles is secret.
The formula for the success of Scent-Sations, Inc., the company behind the aromatic jars made on George Avenue in the city’s Parsons section, is easier to discern. It’s just not the usual one touted in how-to books and business school lecture halls.
“Have fun, make money,” sums up Bob Scocozzo, a partner in the business that was formed in 2002 and is expected to reach $15 million in sales this year. That attitude carries over to the company’s relationship with its 6,000 distributors, who market the candles at home parties, craft shows and simply by taking samples along as they go about their daily business.
“We don’t want people to be in stress,” Scocozzo said.
Neither he nor partners Charles Umphred and Carmen Milazzo looked like harried entrepreneurs during a recent interview in Scocozzo’s office. Dressed in jeans and with a Blackberry nowhere in sight, they resembled aging rock musicians more than operators of a business that is growing at nearly 50 percent a year. But their appearance only thinly camouflaged an underlying ambition to grow.
Partnerships can be a volatile mix, but this one is thriving in part because each brings unique talents and the maturity of having run a business before.
“We don’t try to interfere with each other’s areas,” Umphred said.
Like their duties, the trio’s styles contrast but don’t clash. While Scocozzo races through the plant, eager to describe every detail, Milazzo seems almost disinterested, until the topic turns to production, his area of expertise. Umphred splits the difference, with flowing hair and an amiable nature.
While Carmen Milazzo and his wife Lynn oversee manufacturing, Scocozzo acts as CEO and Umphred manages relationships with distributors.
There was less time for fun and more long hours in the early days of the business.
“You don’t get something like this running overnight,” Carmen Milazzo said. “In the beginning we just worked to increase our inventory,” and it took two years to find and develop a reliable workforce. Profits were plowed back into the business.
Now Umphred said a typical week is 35 to 40 hours and Scent-Sations is comfortably profitable. He credits technology, such as e-mail that eases communication with vendors and distributors, with helping cut the time demands.
Already doing $10 million in annual sales, Scent-Sations could be a $100 million company within a decade by commanding just 10 percent of sales by domestic manufacturers in the candle industry, Umphred, 54, believes.
The beginning
This local powerhouse got its start not as someone’s MBA thesis or even on the back of an envelope. Instead it began when Scocozzo, 57, helped put together a fundraiser selling scented candles for his son’s youth basketball team. When the Milazzos delivered the candles, Carmen mentioned that he had developed a new version made with alternative materials that produce less soot and toxins than paraffin, the main ingredient in most candles.
Milazzo, 57, knew that Scocozzo had been a direct marketer and asked for advice on how best to sell the new candles. Scocozzo was so excited at the potential that he and Umphred, already business partners, signed Milazzo to an exclusive agreement that led to an equal three-way partnership.
“I realized nobody was doing anything” with non-paraffin candles, Scocozzo said.
The Mia Bella name was borrowed from Scocozzo’s daughter.
At the time Scocozzo and Umphred were selling skin care and nutritional products through a multi-level marketing network of distributors. They got into marketing in 1988 after Umphred left a 20-year career as a printer at the Sunday Independent.
Scocozzo at the time was running the Sarno & Son formal wear franchise store on North Main Street. By 1990 he sold the franchise back and both devoted full time to their marketing efforts.
The contacts they had made over the years helped them get the new venture off the ground.
“We just called people we knew in marketing,” Scocozzo said.
Now Scent-Sations takes up all their time, Umphred said, although they still receive some residual income from sales networks they established in the past.
Growing fast
Carmen and Lynn Milazzo started making candles at their home in 1995, selling them at CarLyn’s Craft Gallery, their store in Kingston. But worried about concerns being raised about toxic soot generated by paraffin candles, which are made from petroleum, Carmen began to work on a line made with other waxes.
At first he tried 100 percent soy, but it would not absorb enough fragrance to maintain the couple’s reputation for producing exceptionally pungent candles, Lynn Milazzo, 47, said. Eventually Carmen came up with a formula that uses soy and vegetable based waxes.
The Milazzos continued to make candles by hand at their home, using nearly every room.
“My parlor was a warehouse,” Carmen said. Wax was melted on the couple’s kitchen stove and poured into canning jars.
Production first graduated from hand work to a $25,000 machine, purchased on credit cards, that an operator could use to fill one jar at a time. The machine still is used to top off jars filled on a machine that can pump out eight jars or 16 votive-sized candles at a time.
Growing demand led to leasing production space first in Nanticoke, then in Forty Fort, as well as a warehouse in Wilkes-Barre. In September 2004, just two years after the company was formed, Scent-Sations moved into its present 28,000-square- foot facility on George Avenue, next to Schiel’s Market.
“And we’re outgrowing this building now,” Scocozzo said, describing the need for more space within a year to handle demand for candles and allow the introduction of new products.
“We took baby steps because we didn’t have big bucks behind us,” he said. Eventually he anticipates needing three distinct facilities – an office, a manufacturing plant and a shipping/warehouse building.
The product line already includes candles in several sizes and more than 90 fragrances, natural soaps, body wash, hand wash and even car fresheners. “We have a whole line of skin care ready to go in 2008,” once there is room to produce it, Scocozzo said.
Candles first
For now candles are the mainstay of Scent-Sations’ business, with more than five million sold. And while Scocozzo claims Mia Bella candles smell better than others, that quality comes at a price.
“It’s one of the most difficult candles to make,” Carmen Milazzo said. “Even with machinery it’s not very production friendly. It’s just the best.”
Scocozzo says they’re also the most expensive to manufacture, partly because they contain more fragrance than any other candle. “That’s our claim to fame.”
The biggest selling fragrance by far is sweet orange and chili pepper, which Umphred said was created in Europe as a soap scent. Scent-Sations asked to use it in a candle and it sold so well that it is now exclusively theirs.
“They have locked away the formula for us,” Umphred said.
Scocozzo said other suppliers now court Scent-Sations because of its rapid growth, particularly as more candle companies move production out of the United States. For example, introducing a new candle – which Scent-Sations does each month – requires about a ton of fragrance, with the promise of continuing orders if it’s a success.
Umphred said another key to Scent-Sations’ rapid growth is its direct sales method. He anticipates 50,000 distributors will be selling Mia Bella products within a decade, and that the best of them will earn $1 million annually. Already the top distributors are making $200,000 and, he says, probably not working more than a normal week.
Distributor Sandy Simond, Allentown, finds both the product and the financial opportunity attractive. She first bought a Mia Bella candle from another distributor about four years ago.
“I was hooked from the moment I started burning it,” she said, because of the long-lasting fragrance. So she contacted Scocozzo and became one of the first distributors.
Simond, 46, plans to retire from her job as a project coordinator for clinical medical trials by age 50 and live on the proceeds from Mia Bella product sales.
“It is an incredibly easy and affordable business to start,” she said.
THE DETAILS
<HR color=#cccccc SIZE=1>
Scent-Sations, Inc.
Founded: Sept. 2002
Ownership: Equal partners Bob Scocozzo, Charles Umphred and Carmen Milazzo
Products: Mia Bella branded candles and other scented products
2006 Sales: Approximately $10 million. Anticipated $15 million in 2007
Employees: 70
Location: 1 George Ave., Parsons
Phone: 270-9010
Web site: www.scent-team (http://www.scent-team.com/). com
<HR color=#cccccc SIZE=1>
Ron Bartizek, Times Leader business editor, may be reached at 970-7157.
Ashley's Dad
03-12-2007, 03:17 PM
I posted these, the link and the article on another forum. If it brings any response I will refer them to you two for finding these great articles!smileys/smiley4.gif
earthlydream
03-12-2007, 06:04 PM
Thanks for that posting!!!! VERY INSPIRING!!!! smileys/smiley17.gif smileys/smiley17.gif smileys/smiley17.gif
DebClough
03-12-2007, 07:10 PM
And here's the other article:
Scent-Sations rises above the competition
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<H5>By RON BARTIZEK</H5>
<H6>rbartizek@timesleader.com (rbartizek@timesleader.com)</H6>
“We make scents, you make dollars.”
That slogan painted on the side of a van owned by Scent-Sations, Inc., the maker of Mia Bella candles, sums up an important aspect of the company’s success.
Two of three partners in the venture, Bob Scocozzo and Charles Umphred, were successful direct marketers for several years before they joined with Carmen Milazzo to form Scent-Sations. Also known as multi-level marketing, or MLM, direct selling uses a large network of mostly part-time distributors to promote and sell products person-to-person rather than in stores.
“When a direct selling business works it is far superior to a ‘shelf’ industry,” Umphred said. “To me it is a superior model.”
Unlike its two largest competitors, PartyLight and Gold Canyon, Scent-Sations does not use the party model. According to Gold Canyon’s Web site, a party host earns $60 if sales are between $400 and $549.99. The host also is allowed to buy two items for half price.
But to get started, distributors must purchase a “demonstration kit” that costs $175. That kind of fee is how most direct marketing companies make money, Umphred said, as well as by keeping the vast majority of the profits.
PartyLight doesn’t even pay hosts in cash, instead offering free or discounted merchandise, according to its Web site.
Scent-Sations makes it much easier for the distributor to make money. The minimum purchase is only six candles, bought at half the average $18.95 each retail price. If sales exceed $45 per month, which represents just a handful of candles, Scent-Sations sets up and maintains a Web site for the distributor and handles all the order processing of Internet sales. There is no upfront payment and no contract.
Distributors are free to sell products any way they wish – at parties and craft shows, for fundraising or by “walking and talking” as they go through the day.
Even with incentives like that the typical distributor is looking only for supplemental income and sells $100 to $300 per month, Umphred said. That makes it imperative that direct marketers build large networks of distributors. Scent-Sations already has 6,000 of them covering all 50 states and several United States territories and is adding 15-20 a day.
Scocozzo says that is only the beginning; his goal is to reach the level of a Mary Kay, which has 50,000 or more distributors, many of them earning $1 million or more a year.
Distributors reach that lofty income by signing up others on whose sales they receive commissions – that’s the “multi-level” part. Scent-Sations helps by devoting 37 percent of its revenue to commissions and support for master distributors. Already that has allowed its largest distributors to earn $200,000 a year.
“One is a housewife who is now outearning her pilot husband,” Umphred said.
Sandy Simond, a distributor from Allentown who was visiting the plant last week, said Scent-Sations offers more earning opportunity as well as the best support and a superior product.
“There really is no other company to compare,” she said.
Simond, 46, is aiming to retire from her regular job and rely on income from Mia Bella product sales within four years.
Scocozzo and Umphred are optimistic about Scent-Sations’ growth potential. With sales estimated to hit $15 million this year, they now are a small player in the $2 billion candle industry.
But their niche – fragrant candles made with natural waxes that give off less soot than paraffin – is growing fast and so are Scent-Sations’ sales, at between 40 and 50 percent a year, while the industry as a whole is stagnant.A multibillion industry in America
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Annual United States retail sales of candles are estimated at about $2 billion.
There are more than 400 commercial, religious and institutional manufacturers of candles in the U.S., plus many more small craft producers. About half the candle sales in the U.S. are of foreign-made products, with China the largest supplier nation.
Chinese candle producers pay a 108.3 percent duty on petroleum wax (paraffin) candles. To circumvent the duty, they have been producing candles they claim are made of less than 50 percent petroleum wax.
The International Trade Commission estimated that the number of production and related workers in the U.S. candle industry had declined by 13.5 percent between 1999 and 2004, due substantially to foreign competition.
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Ron Bartizek, Times Leader business editor, may be reached at 970-7157.
Scent-Sations rises above the competition
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<H5>By RON BARTIZEK</H5>
<H6>rbartizek@timesleader.com (rbartizek@timesleader.com)</H6>
“We make scents, you make dollars.”
That slogan painted on the side of a van owned by Scent-Sations, Inc., the maker of Mia Bella candles, sums up an important aspect of the company’s success.
Two of three partners in the venture, Bob Scocozzo and Charles Umphred, were successful direct marketers for several years before they joined with Carmen Milazzo to form Scent-Sations. Also known as multi-level marketing, or MLM, direct selling uses a large network of mostly part-time distributors to promote and sell products person-to-person rather than in stores.
“When a direct selling business works it is far superior to a ‘shelf’ industry,” Umphred said. “To me it is a superior model.”
Unlike its two largest competitors, PartyLight and Gold Canyon, Scent-Sations does not use the party model. According to Gold Canyon’s Web site, a party host earns $60 if sales are between $400 and $549.99. The host also is allowed to buy two items for half price.
But to get started, distributors must purchase a “demonstration kit” that costs $175. That kind of fee is how most direct marketing companies make money, Umphred said, as well as by keeping the vast majority of the profits.
PartyLight doesn’t even pay hosts in cash, instead offering free or discounted merchandise, according to its Web site.
Scent-Sations makes it much easier for the distributor to make money. The minimum purchase is only six candles, bought at half the average $18.95 each retail price. If sales exceed $45 per month, which represents just a handful of candles, Scent-Sations sets up and maintains a Web site for the distributor and handles all the order processing of Internet sales. There is no upfront payment and no contract.
Distributors are free to sell products any way they wish – at parties and craft shows, for fundraising or by “walking and talking” as they go through the day.
Even with incentives like that the typical distributor is looking only for supplemental income and sells $100 to $300 per month, Umphred said. That makes it imperative that direct marketers build large networks of distributors. Scent-Sations already has 6,000 of them covering all 50 states and several United States territories and is adding 15-20 a day.
Scocozzo says that is only the beginning; his goal is to reach the level of a Mary Kay, which has 50,000 or more distributors, many of them earning $1 million or more a year.
Distributors reach that lofty income by signing up others on whose sales they receive commissions – that’s the “multi-level” part. Scent-Sations helps by devoting 37 percent of its revenue to commissions and support for master distributors. Already that has allowed its largest distributors to earn $200,000 a year.
“One is a housewife who is now outearning her pilot husband,” Umphred said.
Sandy Simond, a distributor from Allentown who was visiting the plant last week, said Scent-Sations offers more earning opportunity as well as the best support and a superior product.
“There really is no other company to compare,” she said.
Simond, 46, is aiming to retire from her regular job and rely on income from Mia Bella product sales within four years.
Scocozzo and Umphred are optimistic about Scent-Sations’ growth potential. With sales estimated to hit $15 million this year, they now are a small player in the $2 billion candle industry.
But their niche – fragrant candles made with natural waxes that give off less soot than paraffin – is growing fast and so are Scent-Sations’ sales, at between 40 and 50 percent a year, while the industry as a whole is stagnant.A multibillion industry in America
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Annual United States retail sales of candles are estimated at about $2 billion.
There are more than 400 commercial, religious and institutional manufacturers of candles in the U.S., plus many more small craft producers. About half the candle sales in the U.S. are of foreign-made products, with China the largest supplier nation.
Chinese candle producers pay a 108.3 percent duty on petroleum wax (paraffin) candles. To circumvent the duty, they have been producing candles they claim are made of less than 50 percent petroleum wax.
The International Trade Commission estimated that the number of production and related workers in the U.S. candle industry had declined by 13.5 percent between 1999 and 2004, due substantially to foreign competition.
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Ron Bartizek, Times Leader business editor, may be reached at 970-7157.
Lori Moreno
03-12-2007, 07:14 PM
I just got off of the Webinar with John and Lise!
Wow, are we in the right place and the right time!!
In the past three years, I haven't seen Mia Bella exploding like it is now!!
Congratulations EVERYONE!!
Thanks again for sharing these scent-sational articles!
Lorismileys/smiley32.gif
Wow, are we in the right place and the right time!!
In the past three years, I haven't seen Mia Bella exploding like it is now!!
Congratulations EVERYONE!!
Thanks again for sharing these scent-sational articles!
Lorismileys/smiley32.gif
AvScents
03-12-2007, 07:24 PM
How exciting is this. Wow... I love it... smileys/smiley32.gif
soycandles4tam
03-12-2007, 07:37 PM
Hi all,
This was fantastic articles. I love the fact of having an entire line of skin care ready to go in 2008! That will be awesome! Can't wait! I also just can't wait to see what all is to come with this company as if it isn't the greatest already! smileys/smiley32.gifsmileys/smiley32.gifsmileys/smiley32.gif
Tammy
This was fantastic articles. I love the fact of having an entire line of skin care ready to go in 2008! That will be awesome! Can't wait! I also just can't wait to see what all is to come with this company as if it isn't the greatest already! smileys/smiley32.gifsmileys/smiley32.gifsmileys/smiley32.gif
Tammy
shorescents
03-13-2007, 03:24 AM
Those are both great articles! I'm so glad I'm part of this wonderful company! smileys/smiley32.gif
joli
03-13-2007, 08:33 AM
Thanks for posting both articles! How exciting to be with a company that is going places! After reading Charlie's post in another forum I decided to check the message board in the back office and I found this:
Two recent press releases were added to the document downloads section of the back office. You can view them here:
http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Smellsliketeamspirit.do (http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Smellsliketeamspirit.doc) c
http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Risesabovethecompetitio (http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Risesabovethecompetition.doc) n.doc
Have I said lately how much I love Miabella?smileys/smiley31.gif
YolandaEdited by: joli
Two recent press releases were added to the document downloads section of the back office. You can view them here:
http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Smellsliketeamspirit.do (http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Smellsliketeamspirit.doc) c
http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Risesabovethecompetitio (http://www.scent-team.com/docs/031107Risesabovethecompetition.doc) n.doc
Have I said lately how much I love Miabella?smileys/smiley31.gif
YolandaEdited by: joli
AvScents
03-13-2007, 11:50 AM
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BurningBelief
03-15-2007, 05:58 AM
Wow, most excellent! I love it!! :)
