Gelissimo

Specialties

Safe, natural products made in the USA at great prices! Candles, candle accessories, ceramics, bath and body, pet health products and botanical jewelry.

Products made in China have left a trail of dead pets, poisoned children, contaminated medications, rotting wall boards in homes, and more recalls than you can shake a stick at. Bottom line? Vulgar profits for a few and health issues or worse for many.

Happy with your current standard of living? Continue supporting those companies who have outsourced our economy with no regard for the consumer. The same companies who were bailed out with your tax dollars. Want to bring this country back to greatness? Start buying American products so we can grow American jobs again. We need to start MAKING things again. Manufacturing, farming, exporting — the things that made us strong from the end of WWII through the 60s.

Let’s demand our Constitution be more than a piece of paper, our traditions be restored and the voice of the majority be heard.

History

Established in 2001.

We opened the doors on March 1 of 2001 in Newport’s Brick Market Place. Although products made in China offered very lucrative profit margins, we instead wanted the theme of our business to be Made in the USA. As more and more of our large firms continued to outsource jobs and manufacturing, we felt the impact. People began to complain about how difficult it was to find products made in the USA. In recent years, however, and even though companies like Wal-​Mart would love you to believe Made in China is the way to go, both the consumer and the media are focused on the fact we need to change this dynamic of dead pets, poisoned children and contaminated products — all in the name of cheap labor in countries that don’t regulate anything. We praise that decision and see it as the only way we can bring our nation back to greatness. It hasn’t been easy to walk this road, especially since the crash of our economy, but we are driven by the strength and accuracy of our mission.

Meet the Business Owner

Essie D.

Business Owner

Professional training and background of more than 35 years in advertising design and marketing. Maintain graphic design studio at home for select private clients. Foray into retail was by accident, but I was energized by the customers and decided maybe I could make a difference — become one of those ripples in the pond that would result in a huge wave of pressure to stop spending us into oblivion with billions of dollars of wasted taxpayer dollars and put our efforts and dollars where they belong — the support of domestic manufacturing, farming and exporting. The growth of American jobs. Unless we stop this «made in China» idiocy, complete with dead pets, poisoned children and contaminated products, we are going nowhere but down. And to use taxpayer dollars to bail out the very firms responsible for outsourcing is the ultimate insult. The voice of the majority WILL be heard in the next election!

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