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For you who make a difference, our lovely customers.
“Are you part of a big chain?”
“Where do your products come from?”
“Does some poor blighter work in a sweat shop to make these beautiful items?”
“Are these items from reclaimed products?”
“Are the people you buy from treated fairly?”
These are all the questions that we have been asked, time and time again since we opened our shop in the Grosvenor centre in Macclesfield.
We thank you so much for asking, here are the answers.
Are we part of a big chain? Not in the literal sense there are three shops. Cinta (pronounced Chinta) was founded in November 2001 by us, Nigel and Jacqui Poole; we had some kind of mid life crises and left the comfort of life in our beautiful Cheshire village to work as volunteers on the island of Java. The brief was to teach business skills, in particular how to export, to the very talented crafts people on the islands. This was too big a task for us, to teach individuals who have often never travelled from their own region the complexities of international trade. For that we needed a bigger team. So we came back home, and offered their hand made products for sale to you, who care. So I guess we are part of a bigger chain, a chain of people who care enough to ask the important questions. From the talented individuals who often work with limited resources to make these items, to the people who embrace the products, the interior designers who immediately see the potential to enhance fabulous show homes and celebrity homes with items that are unique and different, products that are not symmetrical and do not come off a production line. Thank you for asking the questions, we believe in this sense we are all part of a big chain, a chain of people making a difference.
Cinta is the Indonesian word for love……….and as the old cliché goes, it makes the world go round.
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