Experience a Carolina Summer with Carolina Monthly’s Seasonal Box — “Buy Local”
For the past year, Carolina Monthly has been shipping monthly boxes of goods exclusively made in North Carolina to subscribers across the United States.
Past boxes include items like growlers from Winston’s Juggheads, lip balm from Craggy Mountain, apple butter from The Dutch Kettle, popcorn from Chad’s Popcorn, a cookbook from Foster’s Market and Freakers.
“Unlike other subscription companies, such as Birch Box or Bespoke Post, where boxed items are generally samples or plastics made overseas, all of Carolina Monthly’s products come from local artists, designers, craftsman, chefs, and writers, so each item is made or designed in the Carolinas,” boasts CEO, Brock Swinson.
Sources from the Wilmington NC area include Freakers, SeaLove Seasalt, and IBX Tea.
Says CEO Brock Swinson, “We’ll be having a one-year anniversary in June 2016. We started in April last year, with the first local-products box released last June. We feature 4-6 Carolina companies each month, with 50-60 products available now.”
In May 2016, the Piedmont-based company launched a “seasonal box” for customers who may be unfamiliar with the mystery aspects of a subscription box business. In the Spring Box, items include cream soda from Waynesville Soda Jerks of Waynesville NC, a custom mug from EmDashPaperCo. of Winston-Salem NC, and soaps and a flax-seed/lavender eye mask from Whispering Willow of Lincolnton NC.
For their Summer Box, Carolina Monthly is partnering with Raylen Vineyards of Mocksville NC, coffee shops like the Mad Bean in Madison, and the traveling Carolina Chic repurposed designers. In addition to a new offline presence, the company is offering three price options for the Summer Box to highlight the value that is being re-invested into each box. Beginning on June 1, 2016, the NC-exclusive company will be offering three options: a normal retail box, a retail box that includes a donation to charity, and a wholesale option where new subscribers can actually purchase a box for a wholesale rate.
Each and every box benefits up to six local companies, with over 80 percent of each purchase going back into local goods.
For more information, log onto CarolinaMonthly.com or follow the company’s Facebook or Instagram pages, to see updates and learn more about local, Carolina-based businesses.
