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Podcast: By All Means
Episode: Episode 37 - Mercury Mosaics Founder and CEO Mercedes Austin
Description: From maker to manufacturer: Mercedes Austin started making ceramic tiles in her apartment 18 years ago, and today, her company, Mercury Mosaics, occupies a 15,000 square foot factory in Minneapolis that produces tile for Room & Board, lululemon, PF Chang, major hotel chains, and other large clients as well selling direct to consumer. In the next year, Mercury Mosaics will open a second manufacturing center in Wadena, Minn. and a third is already being planned—both with a focus on creating jobs in small towns.
It’s been a long and winding road for Austin, who stumbled into ceramics while studying psychology and took...