Spotlight Families Magazine Winter Issue 2016 11 | Page 18

Two Moms Team up To Make Starting School Stress Free A Spotlight Families Q & A Feature with A + School Supplies with Amy Leech and Fran Garnick We had the pleasure of sitting down during a Spotlight Families Feature Mom Shoot to meet two lovely and smart women with an amazing business plan! Here's their story and some Q & A on how their company A+ School Supplies got started! Tell me about your business. A+ School Supplies is a locally owned pre-packaged school supply company. We cater to public, private, & charter schools located in the Tri-County Area. We are dedicated to providing all of our schools high quality products with a variety of services to accommodate each individual school. Our company uses the school provided grade level supply list and packages it for each individual student. Each box is labeled with the child’s name and grade and personally delivered into their classroom. This is all done prior to the first day of school. Ladies, how did this become your passion? At first it started with Fran’s unpleasant experiences shopping for her sons’ school supplies. She was running around from store to store, hunting for several specific items, and paying high prices. After standing in line so many times, she knew there was a better way and wished someone could have been doing this for her. As Amy was listening to Fran complain about it one day, we came up with the idea of A+ School Supplies and in 2006 the business began. What had started as a business opportunity the real passion came as we started being able to give back to our comm