Q I mean, you're such a Maine person, and it was such a Maine kind of product. What, what prompted the move?
A The location was very difficult working in the extreme northeast corner of the country. Getting more centralized was important for bringing raw materials in and getting finished goods out. So North Carolina was much better situated in terms of being halfway between Maine and Florida. And a direct shot out to the west coast on I-forty. There were other cosmetic companies In the area. Revlon was about 15 miles away. The body shop was about 30 or 40 miles away, and there were a lot of pharmaceutical companies that use a lot of the same glass jars and caps and that sort of thing. So our expenses went way down. We were able to hire people who had experience in that industry to come in and help ramp up production and computerize our office Billings. Um, there were just a lot more people down there that were trained to do those kinds of things.
AI assessment note: “Getting more centralized was important for bringing raw materials in and getting finished goods out.”