We have a lot of local business owners who happen to be female and purchase eyewear from ourselves. These talented women work in a wide range of industries, including hospitality, marketing, and recruitment. To celebrate International Women’s Day earlier this month, we reached out to a few customers to ask if we could interview them for a series of blogs.

We have already introduced you to restauranteur Sarah and recruitment specialist Sarah. This week we want you to meet writer and social media specialist Kate Anderson. Throughout her career, Kate has written copy for newspapers and magazines. She also writes web and SEO content and has managed our social media platforms for almost five years. In that time, she’s become an integral part of the Respectacle Company team.

For most businesses, it is essential to have an online presence. But social media it’s also very time consuming, and you need to be knowledgeable about how and what content to produce. It just shows what a good job Kate does for us because we have customers who travel a long way to visit our store and view our spectacle collections. We have customers from as far afield as Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Derbyshire. We’ve even sold and sent a French-made frame to a customer in France!

Read on to discover a bit more about Kate. And if you want to find out more about her services, check out her website kateeanderson.com.

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Inspired by International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, throughout March, here on the blog, we continue to celebrate some of our customers who run or own local businesses and discuss how the pandemic has affected them, both professionally and personally.

In part two of a five-part blog series, we talk to Sarah Cripps, Managing Director of Salad Skills. We first met Sarah at a networking group held at the Lighthouse restaurant in Kibworth. If you have read our first Women in Business blog, you should see how things tie in together!

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The 8th of March is International Women’s Day. We know there are a lot of days during the year dedicated to people, genders, countries, and topics. But we thought it would be nice to showcase some of our lovely female customers who wear our eyewear this month, to celebrate women in business. So, throughout March, we plan to introduce you to some local ladies and their businesses. The aim is to give you an insight into how they have coped and adapted during the pandemic, both within their working environments and personal lives.

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At the beginning of January this year we celebrated our fourth birthday. It seems a world away from now when Alison was sat in the solicitor’s office at 5.00pm on New Year’s Eve waiting to sign the documents, committing Rob and herself to a new and exciting adventure in..