Jewelry That Counts counts on Heritage
Written by
Ethan Forman
Jewelry That Counts, a Peabody home-based startup that makes a new type of functional jewelry for golfers - bracelets that act as golf stroke counters - has hired Heritage Industries of Northeast Arc for their assembly.
The bracelets are the brainchild of accountant and avid golfer Julia Tiernan of Peabody. They have polished glass beads that turn to allow the wearer to count strokes as they play each hole.
Tiernan and Jeannette Sullivan of Danvers started the company in October and are now selling the bracelets nationwide, Tiernan said Friday.
Tiernan said her fledgling company could have had the bracelets made in China, but decided instead to go with the skills of Heritage Industries, which is based at 16 Electronics Ave. in the Danvers Industrial Park.
The vocational division of Northeast Arc provides jobs to 120 adults with physical and developmental disabilities in sheltered work environments and at various job sites out in the community.
Tiernan said it costs more to subcontract American workers at Heritage than it does to manufacture bracelets abroad, but "we are perfectly happy with making less as long as we are helping out," she said.
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