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some links to stuff that we like, as well as stuff about Pedlars.
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View Charlie's Guest Edit on the Good Web Guide, which www.pedlars.co.uk recently became a
member of after being championed by 'What Not To Wear' co-presenter, Susannah Constantine
(of Trinny and Susannah fame).
Who are we?
We are Charlie and Caroline and Pedlars is our business. We have been running it for 13 years.
When we started, we worked with two other people, both of whom were part time. Pedlars has grown
a great deal since then and we now have quite a large Team working with us; but we still personally
choose and test everything that you'll find here. We live at Glen Dye, in the Highlands of Scotland,
with our six children and four dogs, some horses and three very old chickens (nine years old and
still laying). In addition to Pedlars we have a fruit and vegetable farm in Wales, Hawarden Estate
Farm Shop.
Where is Pedlars?
Pedlars Towers is in a Victorian Stable block, just behind our house at Glen Dye. On cold winter
nights, Pedlars shares the stables with our horses. This is where all of Pedlars’ customer services
happen; where we take ‘phone calls, download orders, and deal with all press requests.
Pedlars Central is on our farm in North Wales, close to Chester, in a lovely set of Georgian buildings.
This is where all orders are packed for despatch to customers and where all products are shipped
to our shops. It’s proper hive of activity.
Ah, yes, we have shops too, lovely shops. The first one to open is on Talbot Road, in Notting Hill, just
off Portobello Road. Then came our shop-within-a-shop in Selfridges in Birmingham and then
London.
How do we choose the stuff we sell?
Well, we’re constantly on the lookout for great stuff. We travel from New York to Paris to Birmingham
to Milan and way beyond searching. It’s a hobby as much as a job. And so we are just as likely to spy
something great when we are on holiday, or looking at blogs or reading magazines. And when we
spy something we like we track it down and ask the people that make it if we can sell it. Or we meet
interesting people and ask them to make stuff for us.
The point is that we only sell stuff that we love, stuff that we have tested and that works. There is no
grey area of product at Pedlars… nothing that is simply okay. It’s either great and we sell it, or it’s not
and we don’t. End of story. That’s why we say we sell ‘stuff we love that you’ll love too’.
Love from
Charlie and Caroline Gladstone x