StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Brant Basics, Samantha Ann & Co Home, Russs and Poco Burro
/PTBOCanada is delighted to be running StoosNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…
Jeff and David Cox and Susan Sharp, co-owners of Brant Basics are revealing their newly renovated showroom this week.
The new furniture showroom will showcase a range of furniture solutions for today’s leaders, teams and hybrid workspaces, and the partners promise a fundamentally different approach to workspaces that will entice employees back to the office, increase productivity, reconnect with their company and benefit from team collaboration. Brant Basics celebrates its 58th year in business this year, employing 20 people at their downtown Peterborough location, 296 George St.
Samantha Belsey started out making wooden signs from old pallets in her father’s workshop.
Belsey has just opened her own storefront in a renovating a building on her parents’ property. Called Samantha Ann & Co Home, Belsey is focused on home, wedding and print products, with about 25 per cent of the products hand-made by Samantha herself. Samantha is also a wedding coordinator specializing in day of logistics. Located at 2440 North, on the 5th Line of Asphodel, you’ll find seasonal furnishings, home decorations, carefully crafted signs, stationery and calligraphy artwork. The store is open Friday and Saturday until Christmas, and you can also find Samantha Anne & Co Home on Etsy.
