Katherine Homuth set out four years ago to disrupt the global pantyhose trade by making an unbreakable alternative to nylons. Now, after perfecting her product and surviving two disruptions to her business, Sheertex Holdings Corp., she just needs the pandemic to subside so women have a reason to buy tights.
“It feels like I’ve had to build the same business multiple times,” said the 30-year-old entrepreneur. Her 175-person company rapidly outgrew its first, 2,000-square-foot production facility in Ontario’s Muskoka region, prompting a move to Montreal in the fall of 2019. Within months of restarting production at a 115,000-square-foot facility in the working-class St. Michel neighbourhood, the pandemic hit. That forced a total shutdown of production and Sheertex’s direct-to-consumer e-commerce business until mid-summer of 2020.
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