Working Together to Create Premium Goods
Brenneman’s Leather Goods is a family-run business based in Salisbury, Pennsylvania. The small borough, historically named Elk Lick Township, is a vital part of Somerset County, an area that is home to a large Amish community.
The leather workshop is beautifully situated beside a gravel road on unique, rural property that abuts thousands of acres of state forest. The shop is connected to the family’s two-story residence by a breezeway, which makes the morning commute for its occupants just a few short steps from their home to the workplace.
“It’s all connected,” said Floyd Brenneman, 47, who launched the wholesale leather goods business in 2000. “You’re always at work. We’re a very small family business and I feel blessed.”
His wife, Ada, and their two grown boys and two grown girls, work together in the impressive, neat-as-a-pin 4,200-square-foot shop. The business also hires a couple of part-time
