Celebrating 20 years: We are grateful

Below is a short, meaningful article from our January, 2009 Newsletter We wanted to share this article with you as it speaks clearly and honestly about how we feel about our celebrating our 20th anniversary this year.

Enjoy!

It was twenty years ago today...

Looking back on the last twenty years, we’ve been feeling many things: surprised, delighted, and fortunate. Less than half of new businesses in the United States last beyond their first year. Very few make it to five years. This is a wonderful country, where it is easy to pursue one’s dreams, but it is also easy to fail. So when we think about starting out on a kitchen table in a little cottage in 1989 and winding up in our present offices twenty years later, the word which probably best expresses how we feel is: grateful. We are grateful.

Grateful to offer the best there is, with no excuses.

Grateful to work with people we respect.

Grateful to work with skilled artisans whose work we admire and treasure.

And most of all, grateful to have discerning, creative customers who appreciate what we do, who demand the best, and who test our imaginative and executive skills every day. Twenty years on, we are still here because of you. And for that, we are grateful.

Visit our new "Celebrating 20 Years" section on www.midoriribbon.com to view photos from the 2009 MIDORI catalog and help us celebrate our 20th anneversary!