Why Brooklyn Industries Manufactures in China
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Entrepreneur: Lexy Funk, 39
Background: New York City native Funk met her partner, Turkish-born Vahap Avsar, at an artists-in-residence program in upstate New York. A year after moving to New York City in 1996 the pair launched Two Tsunami Productions to produce TV commercials and documentary films. But the spark for their current business didn't come till three years later, when Avsar made a messenger bag out of a vinyl billboard he found in a dumpster. Shortly thereafter the duo decided to switch gears and manufacture messenger bags out of recycled materials full time.
