Spanning the Globe

Four years later, “I still was doing my ‘day job,’” Stopka recalls. “In the evening we’d do the business logistics. We hired a local art gallery to be the phone center and drop-shipped everything from the statuary company. When we got up to about $4 million in sales, I told my wife, ‘It’s time for me to quit my day job and run Toscano full-time.’”