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Natural Products EXPO WEST – Meet ECOBAGS® CEO and Founder Sharon Rowe

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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Expo West LogoAnd we’re off…Heading to the Natural Products EXPO WEST in sunny California March 6-7-8. This is an industry show for the natural products trade, but we think everyone should know about it. This is where so many healthy brands begin.

Here’s where you’ll find ECOBAGS®

  • Threshold Distributors Booth # 1826 (side2)
  • Frontier Booth # 3831
  • Select Nutrition/Honest Green

We started doing these shows 20+ years ago. Sharon, our founder, did them with her mom and dad.

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20 Years Ago! Expo West Booth – CEO and Founder Sharon Rowe with Mom and Dad.

Eco-Bags Products was the first reusable bag company, first custom print tote bag …the first bag company of any kind on the trade show floor! Natural Product Retailers would walk by and ask (and we’re not kidding!) “why offer reusable bags?” This was waaaay before the reusable bag movement took hold (it’s even way before Whole Foods even existed)

ECOBAGS® was the first brand to make bags in certified organic cotton, recycled cotton, producing responsibly and sustainably and,  the first to introduce classic string shopping bags and reusable produce bags (1999). When customers asked for custom printed bags we added cloth and canvas totes of all sizes, all produced with fair wage and labor.

So, if you’ll be at the show too – MEET UP WITH SHARON – tweet @ecobags #meeupexpowest, call or message her on linkedin. 

Sharon will be on the floor, walking and talking to current customers as well as spending time in the Threshold Distributors Booth # 1826 (side 2). You can also see ECOBAGS® products in the Frontier Booth # 3831 and get info from Select Nutrition/Honest Green Distributors, too.

You can meet up with Sharon at the many Bcorp parties on the floor and off and at the Organic Trade Association Dinner on Thursday night.

If you want to meet up and talk with Sharon, give her a call or send a tweet @ecobags, #meetupexpowest. Great and unexpected things can happen at these shows.

“Let’s meet up, chat a bit, dance a bit and create the change we want to see in the world.”

CYA!

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#Spotted! ECOBAGS® in Staunton, VA

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Spotted! ECOBAGS® in Staunton, VA

Tell us when and where you see ECOBAGS®. We love it when friends and fans send us pictures and alerts. This one was sent by Wendy K. She saw our products in #Cranberries Grocery in Staunton, VA. Thanks Wendy and thanks to Cranberries, too!

Send ECOBAGS spotted to info@ecobags.com. Thanks!

 

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A Visual Reflection on #ExpoWest

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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-Written by: Toro Adeyemi, ECOBAGS® Brand Advocate

We had an AMAZING time at Expo West in March — here’s a little peak at the fun we had and some of the people we met!

If you didn’t get a chance to talk to us and want to hear about our Show Specials (running through April 15th), email info@ecobags.com!

Test display for Expo West
We have arrived!
A little different from the East Coast
The Anaheim Convention Center
Big crowd!
Eva is hella sustainable — are you?
Bonding with fellow natural products professionals
Yoga with Michael Franti
Yoga with Michael Franti
One of the larger booths at the center
Sharon discussing our products
Toro and Michael Franti
ECOBAGS® Display
A closer look at the ECOBAGS® display
Spotted! Our Whole Foods Market print job
Spotted! Our Nordic Naturals print job
Spotted! Our Children’s National Institute print job
Spotted! Our WOW Summit print job!
Eva and Toro outside of the Convention Center
Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods gave an epic performance all around the floor
Spotted! One of our jobs from over 15 years ago!
Toro at the ECOBAGS® booth
ECOBAGS® and ECOLUNCHBOX
SAMPLES!
Bring Your Own Bags, #chooseECOBAGS

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Join Us Out in California for Expo West! March 7-9

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

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-Written by: Toro Adeyemi, ECOBAGS® Brand Advocate

Toro with ECOBAGS® Display

It’s that time of year again!  We’re gearing up to travel out to Anaheim, California to show our stuff in the country’s largest Natural Products Trade Show, Expo West!

We’ll be out there from March 7th – 9th and are looking forward to seeing what our friends in the industry are up to.  Will you be in the area?  Visit us at Booth #3280 and place an order for some of our awesome products!

See you there!

The ECOBAGS® Team

Alla Prossima!

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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I’m preparing to move abroad to Italy – a country that has seemed to have been calling me to it for years, and calling me back to it since I left Florence in 2009 after studying abroad there for four months. I majored in Italian Culture and Civilization at NYU – and have kept my voracious appetite for the Italian culture, art, language, and food.

When I studied abroad in Italy it was the first time I ever really lived on my own. There was no one to cook me food and if I didn’t want to make dinner I had to go out – so it also became the first time in my life that I was responsible for my own grocery shopping. Though, by this time my mother had already transitioned to the use of reusable shopping bags, it was not something that had ever really crossed my mind. So when I went on my first adventure to the markets in Italy – I was surprised to be charged 5 euro cents per bag, and I was the only one in the line using a plastic bag at all!

Though prior to 2012 – when Italy passed a ban on single use-plastics – single-use plastic bags could be found in many larger grocers in Italy, they were rarely used. Italians, like many European countries, never really adopted the use of single-use plastic bags the way Americans have. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why I believe that the banning of single-use plastics is something that while making a huge positive impact on our environment would make little impact on our day-to-day lives. After all, there are millions upon millions of people existing on this planet – who, for them, the use of plastic bags are not a daily occurrence.

And this time I will be more prepared. On my packing list are ECOBAGS® string bags™ and other reusable shopping bags.

-Written by: Mollie McTavey Nalven, Worldwide ECOBAGS® Brand Advocate