Grace Roberts

Houston, TX (USA)
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Lo-fi Vinyl

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Location: Houston
Industry: Apparel
Year Founded: 2011
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type: Sole Proprietorship
Description: Hi My name is Grace Roberts. I am the Dir of Business Development for (URL removed) one of the top interactive multimedia advertisment agencies in the state of Texas. I have six years of experience in the advertising industry. I am also the founder for (URL removed) which brings me to why I am writing to you. Lo-Fi Vinyl was founded in mid 2011 and since it has been founded we have been able to put our line successfully in retail stores and now I am considering the option of seeking capital to grow faster. To give you an idea, we produced 1,000 cuffs and took them to voodoofest in New Orleans in October of 2011 and sold 700 of them in 34 degree weather and rain. YES, we are a startup and YES, we are still in the initial phases of such. However, Since the official launch of our product, we are now in Tootsies retail stores. The December sales cycle for a 3 week period for Tootsies was 60 cuffs retailing at $75.00 each, after which it took them one week to even put them on the sales floor. That's pretty amazing considering all the other items Tootsies has to choose from and realistically it's a two week sales (URL removed)tsies has ordered more through January and are expanding the cuffs to their Dallas and Atlanta stores. We have also mailed samples out to every major retail apparrel and department store in the USA. In light of that, we have the interest of Saks Fifth Avenue, upon the expansion of our line over the next two months and our cuffs are going to be featured at the upcoming 2012 MTV Music awards and given to the award recipients. We are currently producing prototypes of chokers, earrings and belts. We will be incorporating sterling silver and 18k gold into our designs as well. In addition, we are also diligently trying to raise the interest of Glen Senk the President of Urban Outfitters as well. Though we don't necessarily feel we need an investor, we think BIG and we are open to discussing the idea of seeking funding for the expansion of a custom configurator with SEO for our website and also to open retail stores of our own Lo-Fi Vinyl Brand worldwide, much similar to that of Ed Hardy's business plan but in high end retail boutique shopping spaces such as City Centre-Houston and on a larger scale. They are hip, cool and trendy and everyone loves them. You can read our lastest PR here. (URL removed) I would like to speak with you further about the idea of obtaining funding and moving forward. Please let me know a good time and day that works for you. Grace Roberts (Phone # removed)