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The impact of covid will be felt still for years to come, in tangible ways like shipping difficulties and supply chains, and in invisible ways like in our hearts as we each carry the heavy… Full Aritcle
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The impact of covid will be felt still for years to come, in tangible ways like shipping difficulties and supply chains, and in invisible ways like in our hearts as we each carry the heavy weight of the death and emotional toll this global pandemic wreaked upon us all.
Townsend has always been a forward-looking and positive-focused company, so we are excited for a brighter future and this moment in the present for reflection and celebration. 70% of New York staters have been vaccinated, which means we can confidently remove some restrictions. We can feel a moment of peace in knowing we have turned a corner.
VISITORS: Due to a high level of vaccinations, great actions of so many people looking out for each other, and improved circumstances, we are now fully open to thoughtfully-scheduled visits. Go to www.townsendleather.com/appointment to schedule a visit.
SHIPPING/BOOKING: Lingering impacts from covid will burden the industry for a long time to come, but with our team’s careful foresight, experienced aptitude, and impassioned care for providing to our customers – we can now confidently book orders to ship in 5-6 weeks for new production.
We also always have In-Stock leather on our shelves ready for your designs. So if even greater speed is of critical importance, browse our vast selection of in-stock leathers to find what we can ship you right now.
Each year we take one week to exclusively focus on maintenance and reproduction reinvigoration, so once again Townsend will be closed for production on Monday, July 5 through Friday, July 9, returning on July 12. Our office, for orders, samples, communication, and the other plethora of things our Customer Service team can do for you, will remain open through that week.
But, there is no going “back to normal”. The world has changed and we have changed along with it. Some of the hardest challenges we have faced and some of the proudest moments have all occurred over the past 15 months. We have grown and learned and we know, the best way forward is to take stock of what we experienced, note what we learned, and apply it forward.
Our hard-wrought lessons will guide us to even better days ahead. Improved communication, even greater tools at hand, enhanced processing, new efficient and exciting machinery, cleaning and safety enhancements… all are things that we delved into and will reap benefits from for still years to come.
While we continue to grow and continue to learn, we are putting our lessons into practice. Our covid-specific-magnified-
safety restrictions are being removed because it is now safe, but our learning and enhancements that have come from this time will always be in place. Therefore, we are excited to say, we are now fully open to thoughtfully-scheduled visitors.
Come for a tour, come for a visit, come for learning – just submit an appointment form to get scheduled. www.townsendleather.com/appointment
Through hard times, good times, distance, or closeness, we are always together in partnership.
If you have any questions about your order or an order you hope to place in the next couple of weeks, contact us: info@townsendleather.com Because we ARE the manufacturer, there is almost always a solution we can custom-craft for your needs.
We are not defined by proximity, by the work we do, by the danger we face… we are defined by the values we display in times of strife and we aim, to be defined, by being Partners, together.
And we sincerely thank you for joining us in partnership through this time.
– Townsend Leather
– Townsend Leather
Love is love – show your love, in leather.
Townsend is and has always been a company that celebrates color, freedom of thoughts, personal expression, and inclusivity of all humans. We live in a diverse, multicultural world, where everyone should feel safe expressing themselves.
Life is more beautiful when love comes in many colors and this month we will be celebrating this in many ways.
Here’s to loving proudly and living colorfully 💖🧡💛💚💙💜!
Show your love and pride in your designs with Townsend Leather, through our colorful standard product lines, our brand new Digital Print options, with specialty effect leathers, or even right on your device desktop.
Some ways you can show your love and love your leather:
1) Browse a selection of Pride rainbow-inspired leather samples from our vast selection of standard products.
2) Request a custom-curated Rainbow-inspired Townsend Leather Sample Set
3) Get an exclusive first-hand look at one of our newest leather offerings, Digitally Printed leather. Printed with colorful Pride designs.
4) Download a Pride-themed leather background image for your computer or mobile device.
Let us know the ways you celebrate Pride and share your colorful designs with us, www.instagram.com/townsendleather/
Get a job you love! ❤️ With 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 us.
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, and 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 we are projecting even more growth in the coming years.
See more about our career opportunities at our Job page:
www.townsendleather.com/job
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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Townsend Leather is proudly now a Silver AATCC member.
www.aatcc.org/members/corporate-list/Townsend
Townsend joins a prestigious list of members who are passionate about textile chemistry and quality.
Since 1921, “The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) has developed the test methods the textile industry uses to ensure product quality. AATCC products allow you to maintain and run a standardized testing environment to assist you in reaching world-class reliability.”
With the foresight and expert guidance of our Director of Quality, Anthony Smida, we sought out this relationship to build our library of quality testing and join a network of impressively knowledgeable and engaged quality-minded businesses.
https://www.aatcc.org/members/corporate-list/
Customize with Townsend Leather. The leader in leather solutions.
www.townsendleather.com | info@townsendleather.com
A celebration of our customized solutions.
We are the manufacturer, so customization is second nature to us.
That natural approach to customization means we can provide you the perfect solution for all your client’s vision and expectations, with ease, quality, & comfort, while staying within your budget.
Our unlimited sampling options from custom archives, high-quality standards, and exceptional customer service makes the process, from dream to reality, seamless & delightful.
We are craftspeople & artisans of leather.
Our leather professionals are experts at understanding the many nuances of leather from start to finish.
The craft of customization is at the heart of all we do.
- In-stock leather options for immediate shipment
- 1 hide (55 sf) minimum orders
- Custom Strike-offs
- Custom patterns, colors, techniques, sheens… in 4-5 weeks
- Highly decorative leathers for specialty pieces
At Townsend Leather, we have a passion for leather, luxury, and design. Our design-driven philosophy allows us to offer creative and innovative leathers along with virtually unlimited opportunities for customization.
Drawing on over 50 years of experience working with designers in the residential, hospitality, contract, aviation, and transportation markets around the world, we use our expertise and skill to provide top-of the-line leathers that are as unique as each of our customers.
With In-Stock options, custom-crafting expertise, and the near-endless capabilities at our disposal since we are the manufacturer, we are able to provide the perfect leather for any design dream.
This simple celebration of customized leather solutions from Townsend Leather is also available as a physical piece. If you want one to complete your designer resources, contact us at info@townsendleather.com to request a customized leather solutions mailer.
Townsend Leather is now a proud manufacturer member of Leather Naturally.
For many years the Leather Naturally organization has been the go-to resource for leather education and information, Townsend Leather is honored to join their mission.
https://www.leathernaturally.org/Our-Story/Our-members/Townsend-Leather
Leather naturally is “a not-for-profit industry members association that focuses on education and the promotion of leather. We promote the use of globally manufactured sustainable leather and seek to inspire and inform designers, creators, and consumers about its beauty, quality and versatility.”
Townsend Leather has had a passion for all things leather for over 50 years and we strive to be an informative resource for fans and customers of leather. This membership will allow us to reach even further and provide a wider variety of information to our pupils.
The research, education, and resources that Leather Naturally has worked to craft is impressive. There is a wealth of information at their site: www.leathernaturally.org/Education/Fact-Sheets and because we at Townsend feel deeply the importance of education and depth of knowledge is a first step toward a positive future, we are excited to utilize this Townsend Leather / Leather Naturally relationship as just one more stride Townsend is taking in our pursuit of environmental excellence and to create a positive environmental impact.
One of the reasons Townsend Leather continues to be awarded recognitions like “Best Place To Work” and “Top Work Place“, is because of people like the incredible folks on our Shoe Leather Team.
This is work that is not for everyone, it requires skill, nuance, and a passion for hands-on craft. But the people that can make it on to this team find themselves in an inspiring world of compassion, team, family, and pride. This is a hands-on hearts-in team that takes challenges head-on to craft awesomeness. This is the world-renown team to be featured on National Geographic for their part in crafting New Balance Shoes! This is the team that lives by the daring yet meaningful credo, “F*ck Average, Be Legendary!”
Take a quick peek into what their work is and feels like to them:
If you or someone you know has what it takes to be part of this legendary team, apply today!
Because of the incredible quality of work this team does, and Townsend’s foresight and leadership – Townsend Leather is growing!
We are looking to add a couple more people to our Shoe Leather Team. Looking to add a couple more people to take pride in crafting leather for New Balance shoes and other high-level brands, looking to add a couple more people who like to have fun while they are doing hard work, looking to add a couple more people who want to be part of a team, part of something bigger than themselves, part of something awesome.
Check our Job Opportunities page to see more details about our open positions and click to apply.
https://townsendleather.com/job
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