Grandchildren the inspiration for a new company.

Released by: Norbert Rug

How one of the fastest growing companies, Akron Grove Bath Products, was started

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Update Date: 9/22/2005 8:29:19 PM

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Grandchildren the inspiration for a new company.

Lockport, New York
9/22/05

“It all started as a project for my grandchildren.
One Mother’s Day, they decided to give their mothers a
hand crafted gift that they had made. They made bath
fizzies from a recipe we got off the internet.”said
Donna Rug.
“Then a friend gave me a “Bath Bomb” she had
received as a gift. I liked it so well we went online
to find more and I was appalled at the price. I
thought, that will be the day I spend $6.00 for a
single bath. When I looked at the ingredients in the
"Bath Bomb" I realized they were the same as in the
bath fizzies they had just made." she continued.
This is the answer the owner of Akron Grove Bath
Products gives when asked why 3 years ago, she started
her own company.
She decided to start a business making bath bombs, a
few glycerin soaps, and bath salts. This was her
entire product line. Her concept was to provide a
quality product at a price everyone could afford.
“Initially, we were selling to friends and family and
they liked the products. We began doing a few home
parties and catalog sales." Donna said.
She only had a product line of about 10 different
items then. Soon after, she started the “Craft Show”
circuit and had reasonable sales from them. Her
natural, home made products sold well.
Slowly, she started to add additional scents and
other products. Eventually, her products were in
several local shops and she decided that she wanted to
expand her reach. Unfortunatly, it was becoming
difficult for her and her husband to go out selling
every weekend.
“My husband suggested the internet and he spent many
long hours building a website for us. He gave me the
website one year as a Christmas present. At first, we
were happy to get 1-2 visitors a week, but he kept
improving the site while I was inventing and trying
new products." she said.
The website now gets 25-35 visitors a day. It also
has links from over 3,600 other sites that funnel
traffic to her site. Due to the internet they’ve
managed to get her items in shops as far away as Texas
and their products have been shipped to Canada,
England, Scotland and Australia.
She now carrys over 100 different items and can
custom make them with any of her more than 80 scents.
She can also make her products unscented and without
dye for those that need or want them this way.
She added. “After I make a new product, we give a
sample to our friends and family members to try out.
If they all like it, we then add it to our product
line.”
You can visit her at http://www.akrongrove.com

. Norbert Rug
Webmaster
Akron Grove Bath Products
www.akrongrove.com