Next up in our ‘Meet the Team’ series is Ruth Holley, Creature Candy’s systems and communications manager!
Tell us a bit about your background.
I grew up living in the Cotswolds, so have always been fortunate enough to be surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature. From a young age I was interested in nature and had a huge love of animals, having pets throughout my childhood.
Before joining Creature Candy a love of fashion lead me to working within womenswear buying and product development. Obviously quite a different field! After over 10 years of working within this field and 2 children later, whilst looking for work again after being on maternity leave, I heard that Lizzie was looking for someone to join the Creature Candy team. For me, this was the perfect time to start something new and it was exciting to be working with such a different product range, supporting such a great cause.
What do you enjoy most about working for Creature Candy?
I love the fact that we support so many charities that do such fantastic work. More than ever, probably due to an even greater appreciation for nature during the pandemic, I feel inspired to do what I can to help the environment and its inhabitants.
I have an animal mad 5 year old that loves to hear about our latest designs and what we are working on which is great. It’s lovely to have a job that my children are interested in and want to hear all about.
I genuinely love our product range too which also makes my job easy! I really enjoy introducing it to people and telling them about what we do and why we do it.
Which is your favourite Creature Candy design?
I have to say, this changes quite often. I love our new giraffe design. Our bee trinket dish is probably my favourite product at the moment. We have lots of other designs in the pipeline which is exciting, it’s always nice to see which is most popular with customers too.
What are you looking forward to over the next year?
Seeing new products evolve is exciting and coming up with new ideas is always something we are working on. I’m excited to see how the product range will grow, we have lots of great ideas!
When possible, it would be great to attend some events where we are able to sell our range, I’m yet to do this, but Lizzie tells me it’s great fun.
Check out some of Ruth’s favourite products and designs below:
