We actually make enough three-quarter inch ribbon here to make our bows that you could wrap it around the planet 13 times.

So in one year we could wrap the planet in beautiful ribbons 13 times.

Our town isn't known for a lot but we definitely are known around the world for making a beautiful decorative ribbon and bow.

We're making our bows out of a sturdy material that if you crush them they will pop back into shape a month later.

If you throw them in your attic when you have a half a box, next year you're going to pull that box out.

Those bows are going to look as beautiful as the day that they are made.

I don't think there's not one person in the United States that doesn't have our product in their house.

We do ship worldwide.

We ship to the UK, Australia, Mexico, right from Little Berwick, Pennsylvania, yes.

So we have signed exclusive agreements around the world to distribute our products and we're really excited about that.

Some of our biggest customers, I'm sure lots of people shop there, Target, Walmart, CVS, Costco, all the big box customers.

So what we do is we make a blend of polypropylene and polyethylene and we extrude it into sheets.

We put a finish onto that product and slit it down usually to a three-quarter inch which we can create a bow.

We do our own laminating, we do all of our own printing, we do all of our own packaging.

There's nobody else that can do all of those steps in one company.

So you wouldn't really think that something as easy as a bow would be something that would have so many steps, but all the way from trucking in meltable pellets from Reading, Pennsylvania on a train car and bringing them to our town into our silos outside where we melt it down and extrude it ourselves to the thickness that we want.

To make a bow you have to very much be very detail oriented.

So we're slitting all of our ribbons to three-quarters of an inch to make our bow.

We use digital micrometers to make sure that they're within 1 64th of an inch.

There's a whole lot of standards that have to be met so that every one of those bows that come out of that bag can be perfect.

The bows go through an extruding process, a slitting process, an embossing process, a laminating process.

So our peak season normally starts around May to get it into the stores by no later than November.

We worked right up until Christmas day.

We got off on Christmas morning, we were still packing ribbons and bows, getting ready for the next season.

We do all of our work 18 months in advance so we're always prepping for the next season.

I like to make sure when children open that package that everything is perfect.

Their parents are smiling, they're smiling.

I want to be on Santa's nice list.

We make about 302 million bows annually for one Christmas season.

So Burwick Industries started in 1945 with just five employees.

They started making ribbon out of parachutes that were left over from World War II and that's how they got started.

By 1960 the company introduced polypropylene ribbon under the name of Splendorad, which is funny we still use that name and produce that product today here in this factory.

As we built up over the years we acquired many businesses all around the world.

We had many different names and many different owners and the business became larger and larger and larger.

But while doing this they lost sight of what we were actually in it for.

The former company went into bankruptcy.

They forgot what the focus was on.

The doors closed in October.

My husband and I both work here in the facilities so it impacted us tremendously.

We both lost our jobs.

We didn't know what our future was holding.

Kerry and his team then in November did purchase the company and signed the papers to reopen us.

After I purchased the factory we showed up the first day and started hiring people back that day.

Thankfully Kerry opened up, kept us going.

We are so grateful to Kerry.

The reason really comes down to people and the community here in Burwick.

Those employees become your family.

They become your friends and that was the hardest part was thinking that we was going to lose all of that.

So when our old company closed and our new ownership took over we reinstated the vision of we are going to make a quality product in the United States and sell it all around the world.

But you know at the same time we had to work really quickly.

You know I mean we have a timeline here.

You know we purchased in November.

You know Christmas starts production in January.

A lot of the accounts you know had already made decisions on where they were going to be purchasing their Christmas goods for 2026.

So we had to jump in you know and scramble and get as much around.

We've been extremely lucky with making sure that you know Walmart has come on board.

Target's come on board.

Costco's come on board.

Dollar Tree's come on board.

Aldi's come on board.

HomeGoods has come on board and so we're really proud of that.

You know that we're going to be producing goods for those for those retailers right here in Northeast Pennsylvania.