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Townsend Leather prides itself on who we are as much as what we do, and who we are is driven by our leadership. Luckily, we have the best, award-winning, passionate leadership anywhere. We have been awarded as the Best and Top place to work for many years, and for almost as many years we have been awarded special recognition for our leadership team. And it is not surprising when you spend any time with Tricia, Sarah, Tim, or Jared – you immediately know this is a team that is connected, invested, and wants to create greatness together – both in product and in people.
This past year our “Clued In” Award-winning leadership team was asked to celebrate their personal recognitions of their past 40 Under 40 awards.
The Albany Business Review scours the entire Capital Region each year for influential leaders and after a nomination, review, and analysis process – they finally settle on just a small handful of people to honor. Townsend Leather is proud to boast that 3 of the people that drive Townsend in heart and direction are previous winners of this 40 Under 40 influential leadership recognition.
This year, the Albany Business Review wanted to do catchup and a “where are they now” feature of some honored previous winners. Townsend’s 3 winners are still all at Townsend, still being influential, still being amazing.
Sarah Eckler
See the Albany Business Review Feature here: https://bizj.us/1qf7kv
Sarah oversees all aspects of sales and marketing at Townsend Leather, working closely with the internal and external sales and customer service teams, the sample department, and marketing and graphic design teams… all while helping to bring Townsend’s leather-producing capabilities and expansive product line to the design-world through trade shows, our website, social media, promotional materials… Townsend’s world-renowned leather is used for end-applications that include aviation interiors, hotels, casinos, yachts, cruise ships and even private residences.
Sarah is known far and wide as the heart of Townsend Leather.
In the time since her 40 Under 40 award she has only deepened her love of supporting people in every way, while simultaneously growing Townsend’s reach to a worldwide brand.
Jared Eckler
See the Albany Business Review Feature here: https://bizj.us/1qf7l1
See more about Jared’s original 40 Under 40 recognition: https://wp.me/p9cvc3-1Ob
Jared loves making leather.
Whether he is participating in oversight of all production quality and process, or is acquiring and allocating the raw material from Germany. Jared loves working with our team on culture, partner recognition, and development.
Jared has spent the past few years since his 40 under 40 award leading, Jared has harnessed his natural leadership skills to be a mentor and positive example to hundreds of Townsend Partners over the years. Jared’s passion for Townsend comes from his passion for people and ensuring that both the leather that Townsend makes and the people that make it are crafted and cared for, to the best quality possible.
Tim Beckett
See the Albany Business Review Feature here: https://bizj.us/1qf7kz
See more about Tim’s original 40 Under 40 recognition: https://wp.me/p9cvc3-310
Tim is a cool guy who does cool things.
He has P/L responsibilities at Townsend Leather, so his duties on any given day are where it would have the greatest impact. His passion is in the continued growth of Townsend and helping it reach its future goals.
Townsend Leather is so proud of being a high-minded yet down-to-earth, fantastic place full of fantastic people. With leaders throughout the company in all levels and areas, it is now surprise that Townsend is continually recognized with outstanding leadership.
Townsend’s Leaders are so deserving of the awards they have received. These recognitions and the further acknowledgment of them are a meaningful testament to their continued dedication to the growing Townsend team and their continued excellence in leadership. We are continually growing and changing as a company, but one of the powerful consistents that makes Townsend Townsend, and makes us an award-winning team – is our leadership. Their passions, compassion, skill, and drive help make us who we are.
After winning Top Work Place again, and Clued-In Leadership award, and 40 Under 40 acknowledgment… our President, Jared Eckler, has now also been named a TOP CEO by the Times Union. In true Jared style, his response to the award was just to be grateful for the team here,
“The only reason it even matters to me is because it came from you 
. Your thoughts, your experience with me and in this company, your belief, your support, your partnership, and you as a team. A team that motivates and inspires me to make things better for and with you. “Luckiest leader” I’d take over “top CEO” with partners like you showing me the greatest heart 
, Grit, passion, with the experience and know how from our vets, and the wild untapped potential of our new partners – I’m lucky & honored – thank you
!” – Jared
. Your thoughts, your experience with me and in this company, your belief, your support, your partnership, and you as a team. A team that motivates and inspires me to make things better for and with you. “Luckiest leader” I’d take over “top CEO” with partners like you showing me the greatest heart , Grit, passion, with the experience and know how from our vets, and the wild untapped potential of our new partners – I’m lucky & honored – thank you!” – JaredAs part of this 40 Under 40 printed and digital feature, Townsend as a company was also written about:
Townsend Leather crafts the finest leather in the world, for seats or for feets Townsend handcrafts leather hides with love and years of hard-earned old-world technique and knowledge, combined with the latest in technological achievement, to create the world’s highest quality, most beautiful, longest-lasting, sustainable, and most loved leather on earth.
Working with the biggest names in footwear and VIP aircraft alike, Townsend Leather is known and loved all over the world by designers and celebrities. Townsend Leather takes pride in what they do and who they do it for but is equally proud of who they do it with – our team of makers, doers, solvers, and amazers is the greatest team in the area.
Townsend Leather is home to three 40 under 40 honorees, who amongst them have over 50+ years of leather expertise. Townsend’s leadership team is driven by a passion for people and these recognitions reflect that. If you want to join this award-winning, 40 Under 40 led, world’s greatest team you can apply at www.townsendleather.com/job
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Townsend Leather
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Email address: info@townsendleather.com
FAQS
For our Sample Store
Do you have questions about using Townsend Leather’s new and improved Sample Store? We have answers! We aim to delight our customers in every way, through leather, your final design and the entire process to get there. So we have released a new even easier way for you to select leather and request samples from us. But with anything new, there are often questions – if you have any, check the list below or email us at web@townsendleather.com with any website questions or ideas.
Sort by Color! New Sample Store
Q – I am filling out a New Customer Registration form, but nothing happens when I click Submit Registration, what’s going on?
A – It is likely that a field is incomplete, scroll through the page and look for any highlighted areas, red asterisks, or other notices – complete and try again. If you are still having issues contact our web team at web@townsendleather.com
Q – I registered, but never got an email confirmation, where is it?
A – Check your junk mail or spam folders. Sometimes these confirmation emails get pushed the wrong way by email services.
Q – I registered but I still cannot order samples, what’s going on?
A – Your information is in our system, it just needs to be processed and go through the approval measure. As soon as that happens you will be able to order samples. Contact us at info@townsendleather.com and let us know when you submitted your registration and we can work to make the approval happen as quickly as possible.
Q – Something weird happened with my Lightbox, what’s going on?
A – Contact us at web@townsendleather.com and let us know what is going on. Every website has hiccups and little weirdnesses, it might be a server issue, it might be a browser issue, it might be something we’ve never seen before, whatever it is – we will work to figure it out and make sure you get the leather you need.
Q – I don’t want to make a new account.
A – Even though that isn’t a question, we still have an answer for you. We want customers to have control over what they want and when they want to search for it. We have worked hard to make our website easy to use and full of everything you might want. And to make our order system work as effectively as possible, it is best for every customer to have a Sample Store account. But, if setting up an account is something you can’t or won’t do, we can set it up for you. Just email us at web@townsendleather.com and we can get the form set up for you.
Q – I’ve changed companies, can I keep my same Townsend account?
A – Your Townsend account is personalized to you. Your email address and password are only known to you. You can log in at any time and change your personal information in your profile. So if you change companies, or email address, or location, just update your profile information and change to your new email address to keep using your account. Your saved Lightboxes will stay with you.
Q – What is a Lightbox?
A – A Lightbox is like a digital design board or a digital shopping cart. You can use a Lightbox to select all the leathers you want to see together and then print off a pdf to use on your physical design board or share with a colleague for input. Or you can use your Lightbox to order physical samples of those leathers.
You can have an infinite number of light boxes all tailored however you want. So you can make a Lightbox of your favorite, a Lightbox of just blues, a Lightbox of leathers that are perfect for that new luxury chair project, or a Lightbox of just a single item.
Q – I want more than one sample of this leather, but I can only add one at a time. How can I get more?
A – Use the Special Instructions section of the Order Lightbox form. This is an area to tell us all your sample request needs. Let us know if you need multiple pieces of a particular swatch (and how many), let us know if you need larger sizes of something, let us know any special requests for your samples and we will do everything we can to meet those requests.
Q – Is this site secure?
A – Absolutely! Our site is cookie compliant, secure, safe, and protected. Also, there is no payment information connected to your Townsend Leather Sample Store account, our samples are provided for free. So you can rest easy knowing the little information that is stored with this account is safe and secure.
Q – I am looking for a leather that is not on your site, where can I find it?
A – We have samples of our standard production. But we are the manufacturer and can customize for any leather dream. If you are looking for something specific, let us know at info@townsendleather.com. You can just give us a description, you can take a picture of something you have or have seen, or you can send us a physical sample to match. However you want to share your dream – we can make it come true.
Q – This part of your site looks wrong or weird or something I didn’t understand happened here, what’s going on?
A – If you see anything confusing on our site or have any concerns or questions at all, contact us at web@townsendleather.com and we will figure it out with you.
Q – There is so much fantastic leather to look at on here, where should I start?
A – A good place to just start browsing is our “Surprise Me” selection, https://samples.townsendleather.com/color/surprise-me These are leathers that we think deserve some highlighting and might set you on a path of inspiration.
Q – I have a question that is not answered here, what should I do?
A – Any questions you have can be sent along to us at info@townsendleather.com or web@townsendleather.com and we will do everything we can to find you an answer.
Today is World Leather Day!
March 30th 2022
A day to celebrate and focus on the positive impact leather has on our lives. Sustainable, durable, beautiful – leather is so much to so many of us. At Townsend Leather, we know leather, we have a passion for leather, we love leather. This day is a moment to just revel in the natural beauty and versatility of leather. A day to honor this material that we spend all day touching, looking at, admiring.
The leather experts and their network of leather masters have hundreds of years of leather knowledge at their fingertips and have made it their mission to help educate on the sustainability and beauty of leather. To get even more leather facts and understand leather more deeply, visit the website of Leather Naturally – https://bit.ly/3qqVZrj
For World Leather Day facts and fun, follow the Hashtag: #WorldLeatherDay
Leather is an upcycled material
Leather is upcycled from a by-product that would otherwise be wasted. It is long-lasting, repairable and its durable quality enables many items to be repurposed at the end of life. www.townsendleather.com/the-townsend-story/townsend-the-environment
Leather is a durable material.
Well-made leather lasts a long time and unlike many man-made, or synthetic materials it looks better with age, acquiring a depth of patina and wear pattern that is individual to the user – much like a favorite pair of jeans.
As we mindfully look for ways to lower consumption, leather very much fits with the ethos of ‘buy less, buy better’. Investing in quality leather is investing for the future. www.townsendleather.com/durability
Leather is a versatile material
Leather is versatile. The skills of the leather makers take the same basic raw material and turn it into many different ‘fabrics’ with different qualities and benefits. Leather can be engineered to be durable enough for furniture yet soft enough for comfortable footwear. It will make the finest dress gloves or protective, abrasion-resistant motorcycling gloves. Leather makes the most supple of jackets or the firmest of walking boots. Leather is the eye-pleaser as a headrest on a jet seat and as the headboard of your hotel room.
There are so many reasons to love leather and any day is a good one to celebrate it, but today, World Leather Day is an especially great one to settle into your favorite leather chair, study the natural beauty, think of the long life it will have, and appreciate the joy and work that went into making that beautiful piece.
For more reasons to love leather: www.townsendleather.com/for-the-love-of-leather
For another year, Townsend Leather has been named as a BEST PLACE TO WORK in the entire Capital Region by the Albany Business Review! We are close to a decade of these meaningful awards that recognize the people we are and the way we do our work. It is such a deep honor to be awarded this way, because we value our Partnership together more than anything, knowing that the best leather in the world is made by the best people in the world who are happy, engaged, trusted, cared for, and celebrated together. Winning Best Place To Work again just gives us one more notification of validation that we do truly have the best team in the world, and we are so proud of it.
The team that accepted the award on behalf of Townsend exemplified perfectly who we are and why we won. Our team is driven, joy-filled, fun, engaged, and ready to take action. You can see it in the teeny video clip and in the photos, they are awesome Partners part of an awesome team.
* Please note we take all covid precautions seriously and do everything we can to keep our team and everyone around us safe and healthy, the video and photos were taken at a vaccination-only BPTW award event a few weeks ago.
This award comes from employees’ written words and survey feedback. It is not a popularity vote, it is not a bought message, it is direct from the hearts and minds of the people in the middle of it.
This is why an award like this is especially meaningful. Townsend’s own Partners combined with the input and evaluation of outside lookers-on, took everything into account, compared everything with all the companies in the entire region, and deemed that Townsend Leather earned the title of Best Place to Work.
We love our work, we love who we do it for, and we love our team. This is an award each of us on the team gets to own a piece of and carry proudly wherever we go.
If you want to join our award-winning, Best Place To Work team, you can find out more about our openings and apply with us at www.townsendleather.com/job
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2021/10/30/best-places-to-work-2021-all-winners.html
What does it mean to be a Great Place To Work?
Maybe to figure that out we should ask ourselves what it isn’t. Being a great place to work doesn’t mean that every day is easy. It doesn’t mean that every day is fun, clear, or even that you leave always feeling like a winner. Sometimes it means that you have to get gritty, you have to dig deep, fight hard, and ignite a level of resilience you never knew was there.
A great place to work is a place where people feel so strongly about their product and about each other that they will not stop until both are the best they can be. It’s a place where we double down on what’s great, learn from what isn’t, and have each other’s backs while we grow forward.
It’s no wonder then that at this time, a time when everything may feel a little sideways Townsend Leather was named a Best Places to Work in the capital region for a 7th straight year in a row.
Congratulations Partners! This would not be possible without each and every one of us fighting forward and caring in a deep way. Keep fighting, caring, and doing what you do. – Pam
This past year was complicated and challenging. But, it was also joy-filled and amazing.
All of us at Townsend are so lucky to be surrounded by people with passion and care, with craft and purpose, with heart and joy.
To make the world’s best anything is impressive, to be part of a team that makes something that is unique, purposeful, beautiful, and hand-crafted, while being the best in the world – that is something astounding.
As we recover from and enjoy holiday celebrations and year-end hullabaloos, we would like to invite you to take a couple minutes, grab a friend, and watch this too-fast, photo-pile, mess-video of an incredible year at Townsend Leather. It is a compilation of a full year’s worth of photos of Townsend Leather Partners doing amazing things together.
It is impossible to truly represent the year we had together, the ups and downs, the overs and unders, the creations and tests… and this video just blurs it all together. But, you can let it just kind of wash over you, just let your eyes pick out all the smiles, the thumbs-ups, the colors, the hugs, the good times, the tiny sparks of memories that will pop up and you’ll find yourselves saying “I forgot about that!” or “I didn’t think that was this year!”, just bathe in it as it blurs by and enjoy the joy it will bring you as you recall and witness a year of changes and growth and newness and togetherness. You’ll also hear a couple of quick messages from some fellow Townsend Leather Partners who called into and left a message at our “joy-message-line”.
You can soon have a chance to sit longer with each of these photos, as they will be featured in our upcoming annual spectacular “yearbook”, but until then, enjoy this blur and thank you all for helping Townsend create an amazing year. Thank you to everyone who captured these moments in photos over the year. Thank you to everyone who submitted favorite photos of their year. Thank you to everyone who called the joy-message line. And thank you to you, all Townsend Leather Partners and our greater Townsend community, for making our team the Best in the Capital Region, our leather the Best in the World, and our collective hearts the Best at feeling all the feels, together.
A too-fast, photo-pile of an incredible year at Townsend Leather. This is a compilation of a full year’s worth of photos of Townsend Leather Partners doing amazing things together. This year was complicated and challenging, but it was also joy-filled and amazing. And we did it all, together. Take a couple of minutes to let the past year just wash over you, in our blurview video.
I Got A Job I Love.
Along with so many other great people! We love what we do, who we do it with, and who we do it for.
Get a job you love too! ❤️ Join me at Townsend Leather, the award-winning Best Place to Work and Top Workplace!
Townsend is proud to have the best jobs in the area and make the best leather in the world, and YOU can join me here.
Townsend Leather loves our community and is proud to be crafted in the Glove Cities. We are growing as a company and are really excited about the team and culture we have cultivated over the years. We are at a pivotal moment of huge growth and are so excited for our future. We are currently looking to fill about 12-20 more of our hands-on, hearts-in leather-crafting production careers.
For many years, we have been named a Top Place to Work and the Best Place to Work, with 40 Under 40 award-winning leadership, and even more special awards, just for our company culture. We take the act of creating a team very seriously and hope to provide lifelong jobs for our community.
We offer highly competitive pay, bonuses, an impressive full benefits package, and we are looking, right now, to grow our Production Team and Shoe Leather Teams as well as some other areas, and everywhere across Townsend has a lot of growth potential for the future; despite the current times and challenges, we are super busy and are projecting even more growth in the coming years.
- Townsend is a many times winners of Top Workplace and Best Place to Work – recognized as the best place to work in the capital region by not 1 but 2 places that do this stuff for a living. Townsend is the Best Place to Work.
- We love what we do, who we do it for, and who we do it with. Our company culture is like no other. We make the world’s best leather, and we do it as a team. Making the world’s best anything is cool, making the world’s best leather is beyond cool.
See more about our career opportunities at our Job page:
www.townsendleather.com/job
See what Townsend Partners have to say about LOVING their job.
And if you are a Townsend Partner or fan, add your loves to the list!
63 entries.
Working with Townsend is such a pleasure and I love the idea of this Thank you book. It makes me so happy to see all these grateful comments and to realize the joy that this company spreads.
We are thankful for Sherry and the great company of Townsend!
You have a wonderful team to work with.
From GTI, Just Plane Great!
Your "joy" billboard worked! Definitely brought me joy, lol!
I saw that you helped give gifts to Johsntown school kids who need them. That is incredible. you all have such big hearts.
This place and all the people at it bring me such joy! Thanks for being great!
Holy crap what a great place!
Just saw this billboard and it made me smile. Glad places like Townsend Leather are in our community.
Keep up the good work! Love working with such a dependable company - always professional !
I am thankful to work with such a committed team, from customer service, quality to the owner. I always feel we are listen. Townsend team is always willing to improve when we have any kind of requests or suggestions.
We appreciate that you are made in the U.S.A, and can usually get orders out quickly for us that meet our customer's expectations.
I am thankful to work with such a committed team at Townsend, from quality, customer service up to Jared. Thank you for always want to to better for your customers. I appreciate it.
I love being part of this area's legacy. Having my hand in leather, just like so many people before us, being part of that story feels cool.
I love being able to tell everyone I know that we have made leather for Vanilla Ice
There is not place like Townsend because our people make each day the best it can be by being excellent to each other Every. Single. Day
It feels like a shared vision here. Everyone together, working toward something special. You get to be yourself and at the same time be part of something, that is something I love.
I love that everyday I get to do and learn new things. The people here are so willing to talk about what they do, and it makes me want to try my hand in every department. And the whole workplace culture is wonderful. Management listens when I have a problem and they work quickly to remedy it.
I love being able to see and handle all of the beautiful leathers that are made here. I am coming up on my 28th Anniversary and so thankful that I have been able to be a part of this company for so long!! I also love the love and appreciation I get from my boss! A true family!
I love getting to work with beautiful leathers everyday! There are so many different kinds
After working a few thankless jobs over the past 15 years, coming to Townsend was literally hitting the "job-jackpot" My mentors and supporters here have helped me grow not only In my career, but in life as well. I love being a part of such a great company.
I am thankful for not being "just a number" in an oddly fun and chaotic workplace, but to be a "Partner" in something much larger...A Family. A Family that takes care of each other and jumps in when necessary.
Everyday I get to spend time with people I love and get my hands onto something awesome. It feels great.
i love feeling part of something
I love making leather!
I love how much of a family Townsend is - we make the best of everything. Having such driven and dedicated partners make you want to excel at whatever you're doing! The different personalities and cultures make for an interesting day, everyday :)
I love how familiar everyone is with each other. We all know each others personalities, likes and even dislikes. LOL We really are like a close family! I feel very comfortable at my job EVERY day!
It might not be easy at times but the one thing is we are treated like family. We come in and work as a team everyday, through the good and the bad we have fun, laugh, joke around with one another while creating beautiful leather and being proud of what we make.
I love who I work with. This team is the f'n best!
Something I love about my job is the feeling that my work matters. I have input and a voice and am part of something.
Thank you for always sharing videos and photos of your teams spreading joy and appreciation. Townsend is setting the standard on driving creativity through adversity. Thank you for the "thank you"s. :)
I am thankful for our industry and thankful for the creativity behind the wonderful and thoughtful Townsend Leather "thank you" video - your creativity is inspiring and more importantly, I am reminded of how important the word "thank you" truly is. Thank you!!!!!
hang in there!
For all our partners and their families safety through this year!! We have been through tough economic times before but never mixed with matters of life and death and uncertainty around health and our livelihood! Together we have made the best of a year Where that takes work! Thankful for the business and opportunities we do have and thankful for all our partners that help us capture and excel at them!!
I am thankful to be connected to such heart-filled people, as Townsend Leather, who come together to help each other through tough times
I am thankful for waking up everyday to be able to enjoy what our lives have, awesome family and friends 😍
Obviously, thankful for good health during this COV19 but also for the friendships I developed with co-workers, my associates throughout the world and the designers that I've had the pleasure of assisting on projects.
Thank you to all our customers redoing and updating their showrooms and workrooms with Townsend Leather. Our sample dept. loves to be kept busy with making samples for your use! Keep the requests coming!
Having a job at Townsend
Feeling thankful to have most of our workforce back and to be making beautiful
leather for customers around the world here in Johnstown, New York.
leather for customers around the world here in Johnstown, New York.
I am thankful for a safe and comfortable place to work and the kind people I get to work with
Thankful and so blessed to live this beautiful life surrounded by amazing family, friends, and doggos! ❤️
Thank you Townsend Partners for having such heart and passion in all you do.
Thank you to all our customers who engage with Townsend Leather and incorporate our leathers into their designs. You are the reason we get to do what we love!
Thank you Townsend for all the hard work that you put into your product and making it beautiful for our projects.
I love the fall, especially because of NBAA. The months and time we anxiously and excitedly prepare for NBAA is like the feeling as a kid on Christmas Eve. The anticipation and inspiration felt from this show and our customers is something to look forward to the entire year!
I love the personal relationships that I have developed with our customers, throughout industries. I know about their personal lives and things that are important to them; not just about our work together.
I love when a customer challenges us by asking for something we have never done on leather. Challenge accepted!
Thank you to all the essential workers that have worked tirelessly to keep so many others safe.
Thank you ice cream, for existing.
I am thankful for sunlight.
Thank you Jared Eckler for being the best leader and role model I’ve had the honor of working for. Thank you for believing in every one of us. Much love for you and the entire Kucel Family
Thank you to all our partners for being so willing to do whatever it takes for our leather and for each other.
“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
I'm thankful for my family, health and Townsend Leather!
Thank you to all who bought 50/50 tickets today to support Roy! We really have the most generous people! :)
Thank you Townsend for creating such beauty
For the generosity towards helping Roy M. Willis - thank you so much to all! Rachel Hidde and Danielle M. Intelisano told me everyone is really helping out!
Thank you for the everyday motivation of becoming better
to Pamela Goldswer and to all the new partners on our team the past month or two of new partners has me so excited for our future! I’m always inspired to do all I can for us to be successful but with such a great influx of great new partners it makes me doubly want to push all opportunities I and we can to reach an even greater potential we have!
Thank you, Townsend, for accepting me and believing in me.
Thank you Townsend Leather for 50 years of positive action in our Glove Cities community.
Thank you to all Townsend Partners for making it such a joy to work every day.
Townsend Leather is so FULL of love. We work by and with our hearts and it shows all around. Here is just a glimpse of the love and hearts in and around Townsend.
Maybe you’ve seen our “Get a Job You Love ❤️” billboards around, or maybe you’ve been to an Amsterdam Mohawks game and saw Townsend there, or maybe you’ve come across us online somewhere – and you might have wondered what all those icons/stickers/little weirds were.
Each one has a story, a Townsend story.
Townsend’s leadership team is full of award winners, notably 3 distinguished as 40 Under 40 winners, with Tim Becket as the most recent recipient: https://townsendleather.com/2020/lifestyle/40-under-40
For many years, Townsend Leather has continuously won awards for our Team, our culture, and our Leadership – making us the Top Work Place and Best Place To Work: https://townsendleather.com/2020/lifestyle/topworkplace
We believe in our company, in our people, and in our culture. We believe in making it better every day. Awards like these are not necessary, they aren’t something we specifically strive for, but to be recognized for the things that we hold near and dear to our hearts, feels good: https://townsendleather.com/2018/lifestyle/townsend-top-work-place
Be Excellent to Each Other is a credo we gladly live by at Townsend. We are Partners in this together, crafting side by side and continually being excellent, together. You can buy this as a shirt and proudly wear your excellence: www.bonfire.com/be-excellent-to-each-other-2/
Townsend is an equal opportunity employer and is a proud supporter of the HRC and its mission. We are heartfelt intent on balance, growth, and innovation for all, especially those that face marginalization and unfair barriers.
We are Stronger Together. We love our team. So we do everything we can to support one another. We have a “Hides of Hope” Partners supporting Partners system where we can work together to help each other through tough times and celebrate with each other in great times, our Stronger Together shirts even help support our system: https://www.bonfire.com/stronger1609829160together/
We love our Glove Cities community. Which is why are proud to give our around $10,000 in local community support each year. We love hugs and this is one small we we can gift out and hug our community: https://townsendleather.com/contact/hug
Thumbs-ups are the best, right?! We love high-fives, air-high-fives, hugs, and every kind of hand-gesture-celebration! Sometimes we are just feeling thumbs-upy!
We love t-shirts at Townsend! We love to rock and we love shirts. We love to rock so much we made a shirt about it, we love shirts so much, we made a website for them! https://www.townsendleathershirts.com/
Townsend Leather makes the world’s best upholstery leather. We are masters of cowhide, and that is not a brag, it is just a fact. Our team is the world’s best at crafting leather. Our team is cool. This cow is cool, just check out their sunglasses (that’s how you can tell they are cool), everyone at Townsend is always wearing metaphorical sunglasses because they are endlessly cool.
Townsend is also full of goofballs, shirts, leather, and fun. Some of our absolutely legendary Partners are known as the “who what where guys”. And can often be found severing as our own 3 stooges crew: https://youtu.be/u5OCvnLdjMs
At Townsend, we love what we do, we love who we do it for, and we love who we do it with. Everything we do is based on passion and craft. We are a team of thinkers and problem-solvers, innovators, goal-setters, question-askers.
We only seek out doers, action-takers, and awesome people. So, since we look for those things, our team is already staffed with the greatest people in the area. When you join our team, you will be surrounded by the greatest people with the biggest hearts.
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Love is love – show your love, in allyship.
Earlier this month we shared ways you can show Pride in your leather designs with Townsend, www.townsendleather.com/pride-2021, in everything we do at Townsend, we deeply love leather, but we know what is even more important is, people. So we also wanted to share our passion and pride for humans.
This year we continued and increased our support of the HRC and their valiant mission.
“The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where every member of the LGBTQ family has the freedom to live their truth without fear, and with equality under the law. We empower our 3 million members and supporters to mobilize against attacks on the most marginalized people in our community. Equality for ALL not for some.”
‘Equality for all‘ is an idea we can fully and strongly stand behind. It is an idea we try hard to express out to our community. Sometimes the impact you have on others stays invisible, but sometimes you get lucky and you meet someone who is brave and willing to be vulnerable. Sometimes you meet someone like Sabrina, who volunteers to share the story of her first days at Townsend, what it meant to her, and what it continues to be for her.
Sabrina joined Townsend Leather in March and quickly become a Partner associated with greatness. Sabrina has impressed everyone with focused dedication to work, speed, and a fun-to-be-around attitude. Sabrina is a person who brings people together and we are so glad she is part of the team.
“When I first came to Townsend, I was really scared. I heard great things about the place, but I didn’t know if they were true or if I was even going to be liked for who I was.
But, I was happily surprised that Townsend truly was such a loving and caring environment.
On my first day, I was really slow and kept apologizing to my trainer, but she kept brushing my apologies aside and encouraging me, telling me that I was doing great. That day I even met the president of the company, Jared, and he was also so lovely, nice, and encouraging. It was such a relief to know that the people were really like a family.
It was because of this warm, family kindness that I finally opened up to people about being pansexual. I always hid it before, because I was afraid of being judged and hated for it, but the people at Townsend welcomed me and I even met other people who were gay/bisexual. It was so nice.
I started learning more about the LGBTQ+ community and accepting who I was. I learned it was okay to like men, women, non-binary people, transgender people, etc; and I learned, I am really, really glad I came to work here.”
And so are all of us.
Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We are heartfelt intent on balance, growth, and innovation for all, especially those that face marginalization and unfair barriers. We hope everyone can find a place they feel welcomed, where they feel like they are with family, and we will continue striving to be that place for as many people as we can.
