Exciting Announcements for Thorn Ridge!

I have always done important things with Thorn Ridge® on dates that were significant to our family and the business. So today, on Jorge’s birthday (Happy Birthday in Heaven honey!) I have a few big announcements about Thorn Ridge® that I would like to share. We have a new website with better functionality and layout, we have lowered our prices throughout the store, we have added new products and discontinued others, and we have partnered with new companies to bring a wider variety of products to our customers. Some of you may know that I’ve designed book covers for years, so now I’ve turned my creativity to designing graphic tees and am adding new ones all of the time. We also have new product lines that I haven’t gotten on the website yet (I’m still designing the labels) but they’ll be up there in about a week.

The biggest news is about our horse products that we manufacture (and I have a waiting list for) which are the Thorn Ridge Ranch® hoof oil and grooming cream, both of which I developed for specific reasons for our horses and our business Top Hat Friesians. So here’s what happened with those. The State of Florida didn’t have any requirements for manufacturing animal grooming products but told me I had to contact the FDA to make sure they didn’t have any requirements that I needed to meet before bringing the product out to the public. So I contacted the FDA, and they wouldn’t let me sell the product until they made a decision, so I had to take them off of the website. Last week I finally received their decision after almost a year and a half of correspondence and waiting, and the hoof oil has been classified as an “Animal Grooming Aid” and the cream, which is now renamed to “Zozo’s Grooming Cream” after my mare Zoey, which it was developed for, was classified as a “Medical Device for Animal Use” and I’m allowed to sell both products. Yay! I’ll be taking pre-orders for both of these products once I add those classifications to the labels. Once the products are ready, it will switch from pre-orders to regular ordering.

I have also partnered with both a manufacturer and supplier to bring a full line of horse and barn products for our customers who followed us from Top Hat Friesians. We will also add other animal products (dogs, cats, etc) down the road. All of these products are under the Thorn Ridge Ranch® division of our company and we’re adding new products daily. We just finalized this last week as well, and it’s going to take a little bit to get everything listed on our website.

We have also gotten a new phone number for the company. We had toll free lines for our customers, however, we were informed multiple times by email that people had called us but we never received the call. So now we have a dedicated phone number for Thorn Ridge with the same carrier that we use for our own phones. All new product labels made from this point forward will show the new number. You can find it in the footer of the website.

So all of this is exciting news for our company. We’re also expanding into wholesale so if you’d like to carry our products in your retail store, check out the wholesale section of our website. Thanks for reading and we hope you decide to take a look around! Here are images of a few new items. The graphic tees are all shown in white but come in a variety of colors. I think Jorge would be very happy with all of these announcements.

Melissa