Initially, Jane employed agents to sell her products until Bill, her husband became even more involved and after leaving Lloyds Bank, travelled the countryside promoting and selling Inglestone kits and products. This practice continued until her financial wizard, Neal Dennis, made the point that a business cannot grow if one person attempts to do it all! He pointed out that if she continued to design and make the kits, wrap and post them and walked the streets selling the ideas, the business would simply fold. Jane still recalls walking the streets of Cotswold towns, pushing James in his bulging buggy weighed down with kits and samples of chart packs.
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From its early beginnings with only GBP25 in the bank, the company has grown into an internationally successful business - a major factor in this success being the financial acumen and sales talents of ex-banker Bill Greenoff who joined the company full time in 1990. Thus the Inglestone Collection kit company was born, and Jane had to learn rapidly to become a businesswoman as well as a cross-stitch designer. Within six months she was marketing her first commercial kits, having discovered a gap in the market for authentic English designs of local Cotswold buildings. Starting with a borrowed drawing board resting on two house bricks, fine marker pens and plenty of Tippex, Jane designed actually using the symbols straight on to the graph paper. A neighbour introduced Jane to counted cross stitch and unaffordable antique samplers, so in 1983 she decided to design and stitch her own. At that time, in 1982, she and her husband Bill moved to a Cotswold cottage and looked for something appropriate to decorate the walls.
Jane Greenoff is largely self-taught, having discovered cross stitch after giving up a 15-year career in nursing to look after her son, James.
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