Kate's Blog: Made in America
Written by Kate Mitchell
NOMAR was pretty small in 1992, the year NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was adopted.
At the time, we were sewing gear for Alaska’s commercial fisheries, producing the NOMAR brailer bag in a dirt-floor Quonset hut in Homer, Alaska. Slowly, we began adding other items, like consumer products and designs tailored to Alaskan needs.
Our products cost more, choosing NOMAR is a consumer choice.
PERSISTENCE has always been our mantra and we've kept these ideals in mind:
- Make high-quality, useful products.
- Employ American craftspeople year-round.
- Build a following of people who understand the value of buying once and owning forever.
It’s a very old-fashioned, salt-of-the-earth business plan.
And yet somehow…
Everything old is NEW again.
NOMAR's crew in 1992.
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