Since 2017 we've connected manufacturers with what the market actually needs, and in 2023 we started making our own natural, better-performing products, starting with Repelz-em.
WenMar LLC has always been a company built on solving the problem in front of us.
We were formed in 2017. When Covid-19 arrived in the United States shortly after, manufacturers of hand sanitizers and anti-microbial soaps were producing at record levels — yet many struggled to keep up with what consumers and healthcare facilities actually needed on the shelf: different package sizes, different formats, delivered fast. We recognized that the shortfall wasn't a lack of effort but a lack of connection. So we became consultants, building partnerships between manufacturers and packaging professionals and helping both sides move at the speed the moment demanded.
That instinct to adapt carried us through what came next. As the pandemic subsided, we diversified, growing into a meaningful presence in the HI&I and Personal Care markets.
In 2023, two new partners joined WenMar, each bringing strengths in markets that broadened what we could do. We continued supporting manufacturers and packagers, and we also started asking a bigger question: what if the products already on the market could be better? Better performing, and better for the people using them — formulated with natural and organic ingredients.
After completing my studies in Biology and Chemistry at the University of South Carolina in 1980, I began my career on the lab side of things, working in various industries that included inks, dyes, surfactants, paper manufacturing and converting, pigments, dispersions, and food. After nineteen years of developing my technical background, I sought to make a change and was offered a position in Distributor Sales, where I was able to apply much of what I had learned through past experiences. The next twenty-nine years in Sales were more rewarding than I could have imagined.
In 2017, I began working part-time in addition to my Distributor Sales Position by seeking out formulating professionals to create a team that would help me develop products that have unique characteristics in response to post Covid concerns and also products that could improve the way we take care of our protective health needs.
Repelz-em is our answer. Our first product is a mosquito repellent made with natural and organic ingredients, and it also proved effective against no-see-ums and black flies. After field testing across several parts of the United States and Eastern Canada, the feedback we heard back was genuinely encouraging — and it's exactly the standard we intend to hold every future product to.
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