CT Startup Helps Businesses Make a Social Impact
(WTNH) – On this episode of Nyberg, we have the winner of the 2018 Connecticut Small Business Administration’s best home-based business.
It’s called “Regift the Wrap,” and it launched in January.
The creator is Glastonbury’s Linda Longobardi.
She decided to try to put a stop to the practice of wrapping gifts with paper that then gets discarded and ends up in landfills.
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She came up with a stretchy sleeve which slides onto gifts, no matter what the shape, in a snap!
The recipient of the gift can then reuse the material as wrap for another gift.
It can be used over and over and over again.
“I started going to stores and buying stretch fabric and making prototypes and I really liked what was happening and I’d slide them over the the gift and it would be nice and tight,” Longobardi explained. “And they were sophisticated and fun and there was no waste. There is no waste.”
“So you just take your sleeve and you slide it over, kind of like putting on nylons…and leaving the same amount of excess fabric on either end,” she added.
“With Regift the Wrap, we do a pinch, tuck and roll. So, you pinch the fabric, you tuck it under and roll your arms out and it’s as easy as that,” Longobardi demonstrated.
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“When I had gotten this far, the problem was I didn’t know how to seal it and I was trying to maybe seal it like the old-fashioned way,” she said. “It wasn’t right, too bulky…And then maybe six months into this, I woke up one morning and I went downstairs and I just started manipulating it and literally just went like that. And when I did that I realized we had something.”
No tape or scissors are needed.
Address:
1429 Park Street, Suite 114, Hartford, CT 06106
Phone:
(860) 560-9120
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