<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/spring-2006/business-bag.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Business Is in the Bag</title><excerpt>Karl Ozinga ’00 had no experience in the fashion industry, and his wife, Amber Sinsley Ozinga ’01, had never done sales. But that didn’t stop the enterprising couple from starting California Leash Company in 2002 to make and distribute designer handbags. “We were young and dumb,” Amber laughs. “We learned some painful lessons by trial and error.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2006/11/California-Leash-Co-Pic.jpg" alt="Karl Ozinga, Amber Sinsley Ozinga and Amy Brown"/>
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