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The New York Times once called Christopher Radko the "Czar of Christmas Present," and with good reason. The company that bears his name designs about 500 exquisite glass Christmas ornaments each year and other holiday decorations. Learn about the beginnings of the Christopher Radko brand and company, along with where it is today.

The Beginning of Christopher Radko

While many companies don't often start in tragedy, the Christopher Radok brand starts with a Christmas disaster. As the story goes, Christopher had always had the job of cleaning and storing his family's old, rusty, cast-iron Christmas tree stand. When the 22-year-old was at the family home for the holiday in 1984, he decided it was time for a replacement, and the family's 14-foot tree was placed in a new red-and-green stand. They decorated it with over 1,000 European mouth-blown glass ornaments, some of which had been in the family for four generations. Each ornament had its own story, making the collection a kind of living diary.

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The Christopher Radko Story

Every family can look back on special moments in their past, important events that shape their history and become topics for conversation at every family gathering. For some families, these events not only give them something to talk about, but they also set the family on a new journey that takes them to places they never dreamed of. The Christopher Radko family has one of these incredible stories.

Christopher sought the help of a Polish glassblower who combined his own amazing skill with Christopher’s memories, recreating as many of the precious ornaments as he could.

Many years ago, Christopher and his family were startled awake in the middle of the night by a terrible sound. Their Christmas tree had toppled to the ground, smashing over one thousand vintage hand-blown glass ornaments – priceless family heirlooms, collected and treasured over the years. Devastated, Christopher set out to find replacements, but quickly discovered they didn’t exist. Nothing he found matched the quality workmanship and meticulous attention to detail that characte

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Heather Shepardson, CEO

Heather’s leadership at Rauch industries has derived not only from her success serving in Fortune 500 businesses, but also from her passion and enthusiasm for holiday celebrations and time-honored traditions.

Since her childhood, Heather was captivated by the Christmas holiday season. Surrounded by her family, she would spend her time inventing creative ways to deck the halls and trim the trees. One year, she and her grandfather invented a method for keeping Christmas trees watered so that no one would have to crawl underneath each day to pour more water into to the tree stand. Years later, Heather would go on to commercialize and market this same clever product as the “Ever-Green Watering System”. It became a wildly popular, must-have holiday product featured on Today and in Oprah’s O Magazine gift guide, among others.

After founding and operating Ever-Green Seasons, Inc., Heather joined Rauch Industries in 2008. A longtime admirer of Christopher Radko products, Heather brings her lively and enchanting nature to the special spirit and enduring mi