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Podcast Highlight: Jeweler-Slash-Vintner Shares Similarities Between the Jewelry and Wine Businesses

For these two luxury businesses, the difference lies completely in the details.

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6 years ago

January 2, 2019

INSTORE Staff

EVER THINK that the wine business might be similar to the jewelry business? Alexis Padis, director of operations for San Francisco’s Padis Jewelry as well as her family’s California wine label, Padis Vineyards, has experience in both areas and she can tell you that they’re both businesses where the smallest of details can make the biggest of differences.

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THE BARB WIRE (EPISODE 3): ALEXIS PADIS (65:24 MINUTES)

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