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PIECES OF VERMONT
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About PiecesOfVermont.com Shipping orders directly from Vermont since 2000
"Life dealt me a pretty heavy blow and the career I loved as a Manufacturing Engineer, simply wasn't practical any longer. So, in 1999 I decided that since I was so familiar with Vermont, why not create a website to help some of Vermont's smaller businesses sell Vermont specialty foods, maple syrup products, stoneware pottery and woodenware items over the Internet. I contracted a marking firm who came up with the phrase PIECES OF VERMONT as the most appropriate way to describe the services and products I intended to incorporate into the site. The web address www.PiecesOfVermont.com (POVT) was then registered, and after a 4 month development time, the website was launched and we started shipping orders from Vermont in early 2000." - Rick, Founder
To become a PIECES OF VERMONT merchant, or if you would Though RES eCom, Inc. was originally founded in 1999 as a NY corporation, in 2007 the corporation was established in VT and dissolved in NY. Since the first order was shipped in 2000, and to this day, 80% of the revenue generated from POVT has gone to Vermont small businesses. The website uses Chittenden Bank of Vermont for business checking and credit card processing as well. The goal of the company has always been to help some of Vermont's smaller merchants increase sales by reaching more customers on the World Wide Web, without increasing costs to those merchants. The lion's share of the profit continues to go directly to Vermont small businesses, such as the Robb Family Farm of W. Brattleboro, Vermont. The Robb Farm is a small, 3rd generation dairy farm that like most small farms has had it's share of challenges in recent years. POVT has significantly helped owner Helen Robb expand the farm's mail order business to augment the dairy income, specializing in maple sugar candy gifts, cheddar cheese gifts, and personalized wedding favors. PiecesOfVermont.com
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About Us
RES eCom, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Rick Smith. Rick grew up in Grafton and Wilmington, Vermont, skied at
Mount Snow ski resort for years and was an avid trout fisherman. He has two Bachelor Degrees in
Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology. After a short career in manufacturing, Rick's life changed
dramatically with a spinal cord injury, and he was forced to change careers.
Over the past eight years the website has gone through several development phases and numerous revisions.
Today the website holds it's own against larger Vermont Direct Mail businesses. The website is easily found
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