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We welcomed cherrygorgeous to Green Hosting earlier this year. They use our hosting to make their already green business a little greener. Meet our client...
Please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your work.
We are cherygorgeous. We’re an eco-friendly (or eco-chic, if you’re feeling trendy) wedding stationery company. We were the first carbon neutral wedding stationery company in the UK and with our new site being powered by green hosting, we just got a little greener.
How is your business different from others in your industry? How do you stand out from the crowd?
Well, as we said we were the first UK wedding stationery company to go carbon neutral and unlike many other wedding stationery companies, we get all our stuff printed in the UK to cut down the air miles and our impact on the environment. Our designs are a little different too: they’re not you’re average ‘horseshoes and hearts’ clichéd stuff you get on the highs treet. You can take a look at cherrygorgeous.co.uk
How would you say your work is ethically and / or environmentally responsible?
We’re carbon neutral, we use you guys for our web hosting, we get all our stuff printed individually in the UK (as opposed to getting loads printed in China and shipped over on a container ship) and we do all the best practice stuff around the office to keep our use of resources and our footprint as low as possible. We even cycle into the office whenever it’s not raining too hard in Leeds.
What motivates you to do business this way?
We set the business up after traveling around Asia for six months and we felt a little guilty about all the air miles we racked up. Since then we do everything we can to minimise our impact and tread as gently as we can.
How do you communicate your positive work with clients and potential clients and how do they respond?
We mention it wherever we can on the site. It’s a big part of what we do and many of our couples choose us because they are trying to have as green a wedding as possible.
Do you see your work as part of a movement of ethical business?
Over the last few years, I think there has been a big swing towards ethical business practices and social responsibility, which can only be a good. However, there are a growing number of companies out there that are just jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Share your top 3 tips on how other businesses can work more responsibly.
How do you see the future of your business and what are you most excited about?
Our new website is pretty exciting. It’s ace, and now it’s powered by wind power, it makes us just a little bit happier. We’re also going to try to find a few more eco-friendly wedding favours and get them launched by the end of the year and increase our range of stationery.
Visit cherrygorgeous at www.cherrygorgeous.co.uk
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