Hunterdon County Couple Unveils New Business Model for Importing Mexican Pottery, Glass, Copper, and Jewelry

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Lebanon Township, NJ (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Tom Travers and Sharon Gonzalez-Travers, owners of Talaverica.com have recently unveiled their fresh ecommerce website towards the community. What makes the website unusual is its dual portal; a fresh design based on their growing have to expand their online website. While online sales have grown slowly, Home Party Sales, that started because an experimental apart, have grown quickly. The fresh website, and a beautiful retail landing portal, functions a professional portal too. Tom and Sharon are looking consultants to start using Talaverica in the spring of 2012.

Their lifetime because entrepreneurs began with Toms post-9/11 trip to Spain. In the spring of 2002, Tom, a Captain in the Yonkers fire department, N.Y., set out to run with the bulls in Pamplona with a group of fellow firefighters. When he returned home, he started researching bull runs and learned it was a popular practice during the Spanish-speaking globe. When he saw which San Miguel de Allende would soon become having its own run of the bulls, he set out for Mexico.

When Tom and Sharon (a former public school teacher) met a few years later, he wanted to introduce her towards the magical city which hed found 4 hours north of Mexico City (not mind which many thousand Americans currently lived in San Miguel de Allende). They were married in 2007, in a ceremony in an old hacienda in Dolores Hidalgo, a nearby city of 55,000 recognized basically for its ceramics industry. Toms family came from New York, Sharons from her native England. The wedding guests went house laden with platters, bowls, and trays, all produced through hand in Dolores Hidalgo and nearby villages. The seeds were sown for their future company.

Since then Tom and Sharon have created many return trips towards the 500-year-old towns of colonial Mexicoa part of the nation, they mentioned, which many Americans overlook. Last summer they visited Taxco, regarding 100 miles southwest of Mexico City, and marveled at the abundance of nearby silversmiths.

Theres more to Mexico than beaches, Tom mentioned. The Spaniards built these cities everywhere 500 years ago. You go into these towns and villages, 1 village is a silver-making village. You go down the street to another village and theyre all creating copper. Another village may be creating furnishings.

Today Tom and Sharon sell many of their goods over the Online, aided through a fresh site (talaverica.com) touting treasures from colonial Mexico. The Talavera potteryplates, bowls, and mugsare lead-free and dishwasher- and microwave-safe. The copper pieces, produced through a family with decades of expertise, are individually hand-hammered from 100 percent recycled copper.

In addition towards the site, Talaverica products are available at Flowers through the River in Califon at private house parties. Anyone wishing to join the Talaverica team can contact Tom and Sharon through the website.

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