With our front-page story detailing the downfall of yet another high technology company — the Warwick-based, Mesa Systems Guild — we find it refreshing to further reflect upon the continued success of a Rhode Island jewelry manufacturer that first opened its doors in 1911.
The Uncas Manufacturing Company provides us with a very real lesson that by investing in good people, re-investing in technology as it becomes available, and by diversifying markets, success is not only possible, but quite likely.
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John M. Corsini, who has worked at the company for more than three decades and purchased it in 1991, doesn’t get caught up in talk of a dwindling manufacturing base or an economy that has gone soft. That softening economy, he said, presents the impetus for working just that much harder.
“It’s only made us more aggressive,” said Corsini. “We hired a director of new business development. We said there have to be more markets, newer markets that we should be pursuing. Within the channels of distribution that we currently have, there have to be more accounts that we could be cultivating. We’ve decided to understand that this is a perfect opportunity to develop new markets.”
Sound advice for jewelry makers — and any other business.
