TRAVERSE CITY, MI – June 29, 2009 - Two years ago black & light®, purveyors of upscale candles, (www.blackandlightco.com) contracted with Grand Traverse Industries (www.grandtraverseindustries.com) to package and fulfill product manufactured in cooperation with Bullfrog Light Company (www.bullfroglightco.com) who produces what team black & light® believes is the world’s finest unscented candle.

black & light® co is pleased to announce the completion of the technological set up that will allow Grand Traverse Industries (GTI) to handle one hundred percent of black & light’s packaging and fulfillment needs.

Grand Traverse Industries provides employment and training supports and services to persons with disabilities and other barriers to employment so they may achieve their highest level of independence. Grand Traverse Industries provides the highest possible quality products and services to their customers.

black & light’s experience with Grand Traverse Industries has been nothing short of phenomenal, earning them the highest praise from their customers.  Holly Eve Suttmann, CEO, Founder, and Owner of black & light® and her team rate Grand Traverse Industries as their best business partner and are one hundred percent pleased with their effort on Holly’s behalf.  Her relationship with GTI is the part of her business of which she is most proud and dovetails perfectly with her company core philosophy – ‘we measure our success by how well we support those in greater need.’

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If you would like more information please call Logan Suttmann at 877-280-9103 ext: 104 or email him at logan@blackandlightco.com

Every year, Cedar (Michigan) holds their annual ‘Polka Fest,’ a day designed specifically for to showcase that wacky dance. I would venture a guess that 99% of the people that read this blog have never even heard of Cedar MI, and are probably unlikely to ever make it to ‘Polka Fest,’ so we decided to arrange our own sort of Polka.

Our lovely candles can now be found on Colin Cowie’s website as one of his fantastic finds! For those of you who don’t know, Colin Cowie is an interior designer extraordinaire, and a lifestyle and party-planner to the stars. He was involved as an editor with both InStyle and O, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine. He has also made numerous appearances on her show.

We are really excited to have been afforded this opportunity, and are glad to have the support of everone at colincowie.com!

On a side note, we are planning on adding two more candles to our Inspirational line sometime within the next month. Any suggestions on what they should say?

In an ongoing effor to ’share the glow’ as much as possible, we have partnered with the folks at Scents and Sprays who recently put up our product line on their website!

We are very excited for the opportunity to have another online storefront and look forward to a ‘glowing’ future with Scents and Sprays.

black & light ® candles have once again made the pages of Traverse Magazine, a guide to living in and visiting Northern Michigan. We are featured as a ‘gift that gives back,’ because of our ongoing relationship with UC Davis where we donate 10% of the proceeds from each Bee candle to their honeybee research facility.

Many thanks to the folks at Traverse Magazine for taking the time to feature us in their publication! Check out our ‘Bees’ candles here: https://www.blackandlightco.com/#offset=0;cat=5;location=shop

Just a friendly reminder from the folks at black & light ® that our candles really do make the perfect gift for Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day is just two weeks away!

The good folks at Christian Retailing were kind enough to include us an an inspirational gift in their weekly bulletin. Many thanks to them for such a nice little piece about black & light ®!

Christian Retailing Newsletter

Also, stay tuned for Mother’s Day updates and additions! It is not too early to start thinking about what to buy those woman in your life for their special day, and a black & light ® ‘Lark’ or ‘Bloom’ candle might be the perfect thing to warm their heart!

Almost to the day, one year ago black & light ® began establishing retail partners around the country.

One of the first calls we made was to a man named Bill out in Sacramento California.  He owns what we describe as an ‘almost perfect fit’ for the kinds of companies where we want to establish a long term partnership.

It only took eleven months (and we don’t want to mention how many phone calls or emails) but Bill finally gave us a shot.

We’re proud to announce our third California location, William Glen, and our eightieth location nationwide.

Thanks Bill!

black & light ® wishes all our customers and partners a Happy Easter, Passover, and most wonderful Spring!

All too often the newest verb to the English language pops up in conversation. Although ‘facebook,’ (as in the verbal sense - to facebook someone) hasn’t made it into Websters dictionary yet, you can be certain it is not far around the corner.

Well my friends, now you can also find black & light ® on Facebook. Just like twitter and our occasional newsletter release, you can find up-to-date information on the company and occassionally special one-time offers.

So don’t be shy, ‘Facebook’ your first candle company and become a fan! Just click on the image below:

black & light ® candles made it into the most recent Extreme Makover Home Edition, which transformed the Bell family house on Sunday March 22nd.

It might be hard to see in the following screen shot, but the candle that is in the new Bell home is our 6″ Black Dots candle, one of the first candles ever to be created at black & light ®. It can be seen on top of the bookshelf.