Despite coming from a family of entrepreneurs, setting up her own business did not seem like a likely professional path for Kasia Gaborec-McEvoy. Polish born Gaborec-McEvoy studied law and specialised in family law, but when she realised this line of work wasn’t for her, she began a successful career in sales and marketing for Ryanair. Then, one evening, in her husband Brendan’s family home, his family were talking about Brendan’s grandfather Ted Carberry, a saddle-maker. His story of determination even in the darkest of times inspired both Gaborec-McEvoy and her husband to create a company which would in some way…

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