Over the past few years, Tenita Strand, Founder of Status Co. Leather Studio, has established her business as a leading merchant of handcrafted artisan leather goods in Alabama.
The business, which was named the 2022 Emerging Business Award Winner at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Dream Big Awards, found success within months of its launch into the online retail market in July 2019. By December of that year, the business had earned enough profit to expand into a brick-and-mortar location based in rural Enterprise, Alabama.
