Lately, the headlines across New England have all been about Market Basket, the family business that imploded when the family stopped getting along. But far from the picket lines of the Demoulas family battle, another family business is still thriving decades after its founding.
Kim Rilleau joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio to talk about his family shop, RilleauLeather. Rilleau is a second-generation leather worker whose parents, Roger and Peggy, started a leather shop in Provincetown, Mass. Rilleau Leather makes bags, sandals, belts, and many other leather products.
In 1997, Kim Rilleau moved the family's business operations from Provincetown — where they'd been since the 1940s — up to Woodstock, Vermont. Now, Rilleau is moving Rilleau Leathers back to Provincetown.
To hear the entire interview with Kim Rilleau, click the audio above. Head to Rilleau Leather to read more about Rilleau's company.
