{"id":6371,"date":"2021-04-14T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2021-11-27T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T23:17:03","slug":"12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/podcast\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"E12: Joey Pringle: Making an impact as a vegan handbag manufacturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" title=\"012: Making impact in vegan handbag manufacturing with Joey Pringle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=ns25r-111b631-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Verdana&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;btn-skin=3267a3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creative entrepreneurs are often known to take creative career turns and go down roads less travelled. One such story is recounted here by Joey Pringle &#8211; an industrial designer who became a handbag designer, only to leave it all behind and become a sustainable vegan handbag manufacturer in China.<\/p>\n<p>And not just any vegan handbag manufacturer but he is setting up a factory founded on five sustainable core pillars focused on attracting like-minded brands and clients and creating change and impact in the fashion industry, one bag at a time.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6373\" title=\"Joey Pringle Vechin Factory China, Vegan leather handbag manufacturer\" src=\"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory.jpeg\" alt=\"vegan handbag manufacturer\" width=\"352\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory-233x310.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory-696x928.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory-315x420.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joey-pringle-vechin-vegan-bag-factory-610x813.jpeg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Episode Notes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast and discover how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joey got his start in the fashion industry,<\/li>\n<li>how he met his business partner and why he decided to take on this opportunity, instead of starting his own brand,<\/li>\n<li>the 5 core values upon which he is building a sustainable vegan accessories factory business,<\/li>\n<li>what type of designer brands Vechin factory works with and what are the requirements they have from potential new clients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and much more.<\/p>\n<p><b>Resources:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Connect with Joey via:<\/p>\n<p>Vechin factory website:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veshinfactory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>www.veshinfactory.com<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nVechin factory<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/veshinfactory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a>:\u00a0 @<b>veshinfactory<\/b><br \/>\nLinked in:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joeypringle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joeypringle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a 5*star* rating and a review on iTunes &#8211; it helps us get this podcast discovered by more listeners just like yourself. Thank you.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Discover more great content on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDx5HDhSfXvbQ_Vi16XLVqA?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To submit any questions or get in touch with topic suggestions, write to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:podcast@fashioninsiders.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast@fashioninsiders.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative entrepreneurs are often known to take creative career turns and go down roads less travelled. One such story is recounted here by Joey Pringle &#8211; an industrial designer who became a handbag designer, only to leave it all behind and become a sustainable vegan handbag manufacturer in China. And not just any vegan handbag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6815],"tags":[4155,4219,6818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}