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Company:
Kurtz Farms, Cheshire, Conn.
Job Title:
Sales, Marketing & Brand Manager
Age:
39
Accomplishments:
Created Urban Gardener program that provides unique products to help busy consumers get into gardening “As easy as 1-2-3”; Adeptly juggles demands of big box customers, IGCs and retail florists for wholesale growing company while continuing to grow Urban Gardener brand; Donates portion of the Urban Gardener profits to the Tommy Fund (www.tommyfund.org) to help fight childhood cancer.
Extracurricular:
“Mini extreme couponer” for local food pantry. Each week, Jen and her son, Christian, shop for items that are donated to the pantry. Can’t live without: Dunkin’ Donuts coffee with her dad. “I’ve been going to the same DD for almost 17 years.”
Fun Fact:
Not many people know: Jen’s family survived the second largest hotel fire in American history in Puerto Rico in 1986.
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Year:
2012