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So imagine t What do you typically fill that with? Furniture. Where do you typically get furniture? No place good, more often than not. Wouldn't it be a delight if you could find furniture truly made of wood, truly made in Jacksonville that was affordable, affordable, affordable? That would be the holy grail to furnish your home. Thankfully there is such an opportunity here in Jacksonville from my friends at Glodia. Dan Ignacio, welcome to the show. I am so curious Dan, Dan Miller from Glodia. What causes an entrepreneur and a visionary to suddenly get t Well actually it started with Anacio Santos. Anacio moved here about ten years ago and that's when Glodia started and he started making t He's a world-known designer and he started making this furniture in a friend's garage and started making some chairs and things Started selling them and then one t Now the furniture is made here in Jacksonville as you said earlier. It's made from wood that's harvested in Alabama so it's all USA if you will and brought into our factory. We take that wood, we convert it in our automated equipment into different pieces of furniture What I find intriguing Anacio about your brain you've been able to create t What is the secret sauce that has enabled you to do that right here for us in Jacksonville? Yeah the first challenge when you create a product it's compete with the overseas business. Now overseas business they have very low labor cost and then when you create the product we figured out to create somet We have five whole materials, we have 13 products with the semi-haul material and then today all t 4,000 pieces of furniture So a piece of the design and it's okay to have my furniture my feet on the furniture. You can put a car on top. We have a picture with a car on top of the fornitures to show how strong it is. So the secret sauce in the design was it was built to beautiful and durable and efficient in its production, minimal waste, waste of time, waste of material. Yeah it's 3% waste material, it's impossible. The standard in furniture industry is 20%. So I could buy a table with VOCs in it and particle board and God knows what that comes all the way from C What advantage is it to me the buyer of nice beautiful furniture to drive over to Glodia and put t What is the savings I can experience because I'm here local and I know you rather than someone who shopped online from around the world getting your stuff? Any customer around the world, the USA, if they buy our product after one year they can replace their product from 50% off and Jacksonville anyone can walk to our warehouse they can buy from 50% at the first time. Wow It's a deal. It's a great deal for the local community. It's all local. That's as green as you can be. Go there and meet the folks that designed it, folks that build it. For people that would The best way to get a hold of us is glodia. com that's our website it's got all the furniture on there and you can see the different samples. We have 24 colors, deco colors so we can match about any deco or you have. I am grateful to have you guys whether I'm also grateful to have somet I'd com pick it out and then make the arrangement to pick it up and get it at half price. We'll be right back.