Yes. We build the store and the system that tracks orders and stock behind it, connect the two, and host both on LTFI.
Software for Toy Town's makers and Route 140 businesses
Toy Town, on Routes 12 and 140
Does Kief Studio work in Winchendon? Yes.
Winchendon still answers to Toy Town, after the factory that once made it famous, and its 2020 master plan lists manufacturing as the second largest employing industry, behind schools. Route 12 runs down to Worcester and Route 140 to Route 2. Kief Studio is in Shrewsbury, MA 01545, and builds and hosts software for north county firms like these on LTFI.
The plan is honest about the pressure, naming competition from tax-free New Hampshire, and its own strategies ask for reliable high-speed internet for every business and home business, plus support for local craftspeople and artisans. A maker selling online, a firm on the Route 140 corridor that wants its orders out of spreadsheets, or a downtown business that needs a site that works: we build it, then keep it running.
Kief Studio, Shrewsbury, MA 01545. [email protected]
Working in Winchendon from Shrewsbury
- Winchendon grew in the 19th century as a manufacturing town built on water-powered mills, and was once home to the world's largest toy factory, which gave it the nickname Toy Town. Source: Town of Winchendon, Community Master Plan, December 2020
- The plan lists the town's top employing industries as educational services (20.5%), manufacturing (11.1%), health care and social assistance (10.4%), retail trade (10.2%), and accommodation and food services (9.6%). Source: Town of Winchendon, Community Master Plan, December 2020
- Route 12 connects Winchendon to Worcester, Fitchburg and Leominster, Route 140 connects it to Gardner and Route 2, and U.S. Route 202 runs north to Concord, New Hampshire. Source: Town of Winchendon, Community Master Plan, December 2020
- The town's Route 140 Corridor Overlay District exists to encourage commercial and industrial development on Route 140 for local jobs and tax base, and covers Highway Commercial parcels that front Routes 140 and 12. Source: Town of Winchendon, Zoning Bylaw, Route 140 Corridor Overlay District
- The plan names competition from tax-free New Hampshire as an economic challenge, and its strategies call for reliable high-speed internet for all businesses and home businesses and for support for the town's craftspeople, artists and artisans. Source: Town of Winchendon, Community Master Plan, December 2020
- Kief Studio is in Shrewsbury, MA 01545. There is no Kief Studio office in Winchendon.
Who this is for
Winchendon manufacturers, Route 140 corridor businesses, and the craftspeople and home businesses the town plans to support, that need software built and run by one studio.
What we do for businesses in Winchendon
ERP and operations systems
One system for the work that lives in six spreadsheets.
Ecommerce development
A store that looks like you, not like a theme.
Website operations
We host, write, publish, and watch the site. You run the company.
Custom web applications
Software that fits how the company already works.
Managed hosting on LTFI
We host what we build on dedicated infrastructure and keep it running.
Winchendon questions, short answers
We make things in Winchendon and sell some of them online. Can one studio handle both sides?
Where is Kief Studio?
Shrewsbury, MA 01545. We do not have an office in Winchendon.How do we start?
Write to [email protected] or use the contact form. The first conversation is free. No commitment.