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Thanks for the great nominations! Matt, thanks to your nomination, we've added Happy Girl Kitchen to the site. Jordan, Todd, and Todd are fantastic, inspiring people. Thanks again.

Thanks for the great recent suggestions! Olivia, out of coincidence, I spoke with ChicoBag earlier today! They are fantastic!

Thanks for all the great nominations! I've spoken to a handful of those you've suggested and we hope to have a new group of companies joining shortly. If you can, ask around for nominations as I feel like every time I meet someone new they turn me on to a new company with fantastic stories. 

I think I'm going to need some samples of Mateveza to give it proper consideration. :)

These are great suggestions, thanks Matt, Jamie, Felix and Victoria. I hadn't heard of Hess Surfboards, Heath Pottery, or Amazing Grass before. Will reach out to them shortly and see if they'd like to share some of their stories with you and help us support relief efforts in Haiti. Keep the great ideas coming!

Matt, did you see TCHO on the site? We might just have been one step ahead of you. :)
http://companiesandme.com/tcho 

I have a lot of appreciation for this approach. I recently had a friend join the leadership team of a large fashion company, after years of working in the beverages industry, and learned how it is common practice to destroy an incredible amount of high end fabrics, just to ensure that they don't end up getting used in a way that would compromise the brand.

It's a problem that seems to exist in all if not most of the large fashion brands out there. It's great to know how much the industry could learn from a small bag manufacturer in the Dogpatch District, and that the approach might not only have the potential to make their businesses more profitable, but also more fun.