ABOUT US:

TwoGirls® are Rebecca Sacco and Alexandra Hughes. Our partnership was established in 2006 just after we had our brainwave for the Fregie Sack®. We immediately thought it was worth pursuing as one of those "if we don't do it, someone else will ideas". With the current state of heightened environmental awareness and people wanting to live a more sustainable lifestyle, the Fregie Sack® seemed an easy way for a reusable bag to make a significant difference to the amount of waste we produce in our every day lives. We wanted a name that would stick in your memory so we added Fruit +Vegie and came up with FREGIE.

We initially talked a lot about it and finally got around to getting some fabric to make sets for our own use. We loved them immediately and some sets for Christmas presents soon followed. We started to sense the potential of our idea with the great feedback we'd been getting and utilised the internet to spread the word and gauge the response. Orders started coming in and we started production.

At this stage we were doing all the sewing ourselves, well, we were doing everything ourselves and roping in talented family members to help us with areas of design including website building; but the production, promotion, marketing, accounting were all us. Our daughters were about 8 months old and spent lots of time happily playing with fabric and sacks but as they got older and our families expanded we didn't have the same amount of free time to get it all done. We were spending all our time sewing and didn't have any time for promoting the Fregies to a wider audience.

It is extremely important to us to keep the Fregie Sack® made in Australia. We are both passionate about buying locally made products and supporting local industry. After a few connections with local manufacturers, the price kept going up and we realised to make it viable and keep it Australian made we'd need to cut out the middle man. We placed ads for people who sew at home and had the right equipment and away we went. This enables us to negotiate a fair price directly with the sewer instead of the agent taking the lion's share. It also gives us more freedom to get made what we need at that specific time so it has worked out really well.

Our aim was always to grow our business around our children and be able to enjoy the special years before they start school. Luckily, as they've grown up with the Fregie Sack® being part of the every day, they are used to the way it integrates with their lives. The most difficult thing at the moment is making phone calls as they always want to chat to whoever is on the end of the line - it certainly results in some interesting conversations though!

Currently the Fregie Sack® is now stocked Australia wide and we are in the process of getting a distributor set up in New Zealand - we've come a long way since we first talked about our great idea and it's been a great journey so far.