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Originally Posted by infoperson
As one of the new owners at Annalee, I thought I would respond to your postings. One of our employees brought this to our attention, so I joined the forum to express my thoughts. To those folks who expressed support for us, thank you. For those that decided to make cutting remarks, I offer the following:
My partners and I invested our money into a failing company that was about to close. If we did not, than that means all jobs lost. Today we have around forty folks employed. We struggle to offer FULL benefits to them and their families. Greedy folks (as we were called) don’t do that.
My partners and I do not run into objectors when we donate to the local Chamber of Commerce, Children’s Auctions, Boys and Girls Club and about sixty other charities (literally, thousands of dollars!) and not that you care, but our first major contribution was offered as we were flooded out of our office building. By the way, we rarely even get a thank you, but we continue.
The greedy owners (us) who stole local jobs, could have moved the company into another area of the country where it would have been cheaper, stayed out of respect for the tradition of the Annalee name.
To all of you who are complaining, check the car you drive or the tag in your clothes. You could buy American, but I bet you look for price first. And, yes I am angry at your remarks. By the way, the CEO (characterized as greedy) here took very little as salary during the turn around-you would be amazed at how littlehe took so we could re-institute a benefit program!
Frankly, please don't buy our products. We make and design nice products for nice people and the nice people here at Annalee are proud of their work.
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Good first post Grasshopper, now you can take the pebble from my hand and go. Every year for as long as I can remember, I would go to the Annalee shop in the woods and buy Christmas presents, Easter, Halloween...you name it. As soon as they went overseas, I don't even look at the sign on 104 anymore. Kind of took the fun out of the whole shopping experience. It was nice having a unique product made right here in Meredith by "people that were proud of their work" and sold all over the world. Thats gone now. So you can set up your store in a big plaza and have your grand openings, but it is still no different than going to a card store at the mall. picking up the Annalee doll from the shelf, and not seeing made in Meredith NH. Although, I did notice the eyes on all the new dolls look different......