- Love for creating runs through each and every one of our products.

It's one of the best parts about my job alongside the fact our customers are appreciating the things we're creating.

They're getting moved by the products we're creating and that is just so rewarding to see that joy that we're bringing through things we're creating with our hands.

(upbeat music) Hi, my name is Anne Skoch and I'm the founder and CEO of Anne Cate.

Anne Cate is a Cleveland based accessories brand and manufacturing firm, specializing in skyline silhouette purses and pillows and other simple accessories.

I've always been a creative entrepreneur and have had my own business since I was 13 selling random purses and accessories on Etsy.

Anne Cate started when I was a sophomore in college, when I went to create some pillows for my dorm room.

They were just some simple pillows with my favorite city skylines on them.

And one Facebook share led to another and people really encouraged me to start selling these products.

And within several months, my 19-year-old self was having many sales and had a national retailer inquire about wholesaling.

From that moment on, I realized that there's so many places that impact us and that our products exemplify that and that there really could be a unique business idea within these skyline products.

So I spent the rest of my college career working on Anne Cate and growing it, which led us to where we are today: Five years later in our own manufacturing studio with a team of three wonderful women sewing, creating, and fulfilling our products.

Scaling our business was the biggest challenge we have faced and overcome.

We've just been blessed with amazing employees that have helped us, who started part-time now who are full-time and willing to invest in Anne Cate and who see the same vision as I do.

But it was also a leap of faith and a lot of luck to scale from a dorm room to where we are today.

(laughing) Being "Made in America" was at the core of Anne Cate.

No matter how we scaled, I knew I wanted that to be at our foundation whether it was me in the dorm room or our own team or finding another manufacturer.

I wanted to be "Made in America".

So, everything is still made by hand, one-by-one.

It's designed in studio, it's printed, then it's cut and sewn and fulfilled all in Cleveland, Ohio at the Anne Cate Manufacturing Studio.

Sublimation is a process where it's not a screen print it actually prints right into the fibers.

So then we heat press it to 400 degrees for a minute and it's gonna transfer that paper right onto the fabric.

And so then this becomes a mini purse that we then go and sell.

Anne Cate is, always been my dream and I'm so lucky to be 25 pursuing this dream and to be growing with this dream.

Anne Cate is gonna be around for a long time.

I see us continuously developing products that are made in America that are also simple and that means something to our customer.

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