What's Going On at Gina Alexander, Inc.

June Weddings <3

2009-04-27T14:40:00.000-07:00

So, anybody planning their wedding today? Hoping to be a June bride? Ever wonder why June weddings are so popular? Blame it on the Romans.
The Romans favored June weddings because that was the month dedicated to the observance of Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage.

Anyhow, Gina Alexander have a lot to offer for gifts; gifts for bridesmaids and of course for the mothers of the bride and groom.

The heart coin purses or cosmetic bags are very affordable. You can take photos with your bridesmaids on your bridal shower and use that photos for the coin purse or make-up bag. How easy is that?! You can give it to them after the ceremony or at the reception! I bet your bridesmaids will go nuts.

And of course, gifts for your mother and your mother-in-law (soon to be)! I know most of you have an engagement photo session, why not use one or two of those photos and put it on a purse. Isn’t that a perfect gift!? Oh my gosh, if I’m the mother and receiving that kind of present on your wedding day, tears will be rolling down my cheek… I’ll be so happy and all that feelings when you see your daughter or son getting married! You know what I’m saying… ☺

OK, I’m getting all mushy. Hahaha! Oh well, I do want to congratulate you and wish you all the best. I hope this gives you an idea for gifting issues. To see Gina Alexander products click here.

GAPP FUNDRAISER

2009-04-25T12:00:00.000-07:00

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Gina Alexander, Inc. Warehouse
Street: 1112 Chestnut Street
City/Town: Burbank, CA
Phone: 8183264744
Email: gapp@ginaalexander.com

Proceeds benefit Center of HOPE - Philippines for abused children. Live entertainment.

Limited to 200 guests.
Donation: $20.00 for ALL YOU CAN EAT KOGI TACOS
Presold tickets are guaranteed entry.

RSVP gapp@ginaalexander.com to order tickets.

First come, first serve

Gina Alexander will be awarded for Corporate Achievement

2009-04-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

PANANALIG, PAG-ASA, PAGTULONG

Faith, Hope, Charity

SIPA 37th Anniversary Awards Benefit Luncheon

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Wilshire Country Club
301 North Rossmore Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90004

11am - Reception & Silent Auction
12noon - Lunch
1pm - Awards & Entertainment

Sponsorship and advertising opportunities

are available.

Tel(213)382-1819 x104 or info@esipa.org

Our esteemed honorees include:

The Honorable Kevin de Leon

CA State Assemblymember, 45th District

LINGKOD BAYAN

(Public Service)

Robert Gnaizda

former Policy Director/Consultant, The Greenlining Institute

BAYANIHAN

(Community Support)

Gina Alexander

Entrepreneur

KALAMPUSAN

(Corporate Achievement)

LA84 Foundation

formerly the Amateur Athletic Foundation

TULARANG KABATAAN

(Youth Service)

The Honorable Judge Mel "Red" Recana

California Superior Court

APO

(Pioneer)

Angela Perez Baraquio

Founder, Angela Perez Baraquio Education Foundation

former Miss America 2001

ULIRAN

(Role Model)

HSBC North America

GINTONG TULONG

(Corporate Support)

Jannelle So of Kababayan L.A.

(LA18/KSCI-TV)

Mistress of Ceremonies

Newletter from Gina Alexander herself! (:

2009-04-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

April 2009

Mother’s Day Mother’s Day Mother’s Day !!!!
We are busy at work here at GA Factory getting Mother’s Day orders out…

I was invited to a Laker Game last Thursday by an Editor of Travel and Leisure.
We arrived to be seated at the Luxury Suite for USC. As I walked in I was introduced
To everyone to hear a lady scream and said NO WAY! You’re Gina Alexander !
I have 4 handbags of my own and my cousin bought one for the whole family for Christmas.
She says I was just on your website ordering for Mother’s Day and then she place
Another order the next day!!! I get the biggest kick when I see someone carrying a GA
Handbag.

It was my birthday this Sunday on Easter and we have been celebrating everyday…
We even had some wrestlers WWF of Europe come and join us the other day.
It’s Paul’s birthday this month and our Sample Maker’s birthday this Friday.
So there has been a lot of celebrating. Thank you to those who sent me birthday wishes!!!

Also, want to say that we are all feeling the pinch of this economy. I spoke to a photographer
Who said last years she had 1500 clients and now has only 100 clients booking appointments
for this year. I am praying for everyone of our partners and vendors that this poor economy will pass and that the flood gates will open up for everyone to have an incredible year.

Amazingly Gina Alexander, Inc. showed a profit and thanks to Richard Alexander my husband
who does an amazing job with the finances… I don’t give him the credit he deserves. He is an amazing leader, husband, and father !!!!

Next Saturday I am being awarded by an organization for entrepreneur of the year. Corporate Achievement Award will be presented next Saturday at the Wilshire Country Club. I am truly honored!!!!

This weekend is filled with trunk shows for our handbags !!! We will be at Hyatt in Irvine this Friday night and all day Saturday showcasing our handbags. (All are welcome)

We were also commissioned to design all the wedding gifts to guest for Victoria Rowell of the Young and The Restless in June.

Next week I go to her Bridal Shower (it truly is a celebrity sighting at her events) and I am sure Sharon Stone, Holly Robinson Peete, Jada Smith, and others will be there. Victoria and I are great friends and we share the same mission to help foster and adopted children.

Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day in advanced!!! Thank you for being a part of GA, Inc.

Real Simple. Real Life - Gina Alexander Makeover

2009-04-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

TLC and Real Simple announced
the new lifestyle makeover series
Real Simple Real Life.

Gina Alexander was featured on Episode 103
Watch the recap by clicking the video below.

Celebrities who loves Gina (part 1)

2009-03-31T13:00:00.000-07:00

Celebrity Clients include: Halle Berry – 50 Cent – Penelope Cruz – Fergie – Faith Hill – Tim McGraw – Jennifer Lopez – Black Eyed Peas – Sharon Stone – Oprah Winfrey – Adam Sandler – Will & Jada Pinkett Smith –Matthew McConnaughey – Keenan Ivory Wayans – Green Day – Tyra Banks – Brandy – Rosie O’Donnell – Usher – Pussycat Dolls – Kelly Ripa – Maroon 5 – Kenny Chesney – Joss Stone –John Legend – Lil Kim – Dr. Phil—Ashanti—Sugarland – Kelly Hu – Shawn & Marlon Wayans – Eminem – Cheryl Ladd –Lisa Marie Presley—Hoobastank – Sarah Evans – Nikki Costa – Tom Arnold – India Arie – Victoria Rowell – Barbara Mandrell – Lisa Marie Presley – Hoobastank – Gladys Knight—Emily Procter – Lauren Tom—MC Lite – Rosanne Arquette—Tisha Campbell Martin – Cameron Crowe—Julie Roberts—Kenny Lattimore—Booya Tribe—Deana Carter—Diamond Rio – Dr. Phil McGraw – Meredith Salenger – Teri Clark – Kim Whitley – Eminem – Lisa Raye – Omarosa ( The Apprentice ) – Josh Turner – Montgomery Gentry – Lynard Skynard – Lone Star – Trick Pony – Jamie O'Neal – Steven Curtis Chapman – and Gretchen Wilson to name just a few.

Celebrities who loves Gina (part 2)

2009-03-31T12:35:00.000-07:00

About Gina Alexander

2009-03-31T12:24:00.000-07:00

"A picture-of a loved one, a friend, a child, a pet, your husband, wife, mother or father. An image of the whole family, or somebody who is gone but not forgotten. A reunion, anniversary, birthday, a great moment at the office! These fond portraits are the hallmark of handbags and accessories by GINA ALEXANDER.

This L.A.-based designer has created a line of handbags and other kinds of accessories that allow the customer to design these unique pieces with their personal photos, mementos that travel with you each day, reminding you of the people, places and things you love! A GINA ALEXANDER Photo Bag is a lot of fun and an absolutely necessary accessory. With Mother’s Day coming the options are endless!

GINA ALEXANDER and team oversee the various lines available through the company: Handbags, Small Accessories, Men's, Baby, and more. Most recently, via a licensing deal with Janie Hendrix (the sister of Jimi Hendrix), GINA ALEXANDER has created a line of Jimi Hendrix photo bags (both leather and fabric) and limited-edition, numbered leather jackets with rarely-before-seen images of the musician taken onstage at concerts like Winterland in 1968, Waikiki in 1969 and Arco - Sacramento in 1970 by well-known rock photographer Robert M. Knight. Gina also designed the handbags for celebrities and musicians at The Grammy Awards, Oscars, and American Music Awards.

Every GINA ALEXANDER Photo Bag, and all her accessories, is made from the finest materials, hand-crafted, beautiful and lasting. Gorgeous on their own, the bags are even more dear when decorated with your own personal touch, your MIP-Most-Important Photo.

GINA ALEXANDER is a fashion veteran, Merchandise Marketing Major at FIDM and studied Fashion in Europe, apprenticing with LA-based fashion houses, and design assistant to Isabella Fiore and other accessory designers. She opened her own stores in 1999 at the Hollywood & Highland Retail complex and The Grove. Now, with a growing company, GINA ALEXANDER's Photo Bags have been sold through Nordstrom, Macy’s, ICE Accessories and Saks Inc. department stores 40+ boutiques nationwide and over 1,200 professional photography studios worldwide. A recent appearance of GINA with her Photo Bags on the Home Shopping Network and QVC (available in 90 million homes) was a huge success, selling out in record time.
GINA's handbags have appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, and the designer was interviewed numerous times by OPRAH! Media about GINA ALEXANDER and her Photo Bags has appeared in: ELLE, PEOPLE MAGAZINE and US MAGAZINE, to name a few.

GINA ALEXANDER works consistently with many celebrities creating their dream Photo Bags, including: Tiger Woods, Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, Pussycat Dolls, Victoria Rowell of The Young and The Restless, Faith Hill, Kelly Ripa, The Black-Eyed Peas, Penelope Cruz, Ashanti, John Legend, Ticara, Glady’s Knight, The Hendrix Family, Quincy Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Fergie, The Princess of Cambodia, The Cast of Mamma Mia, The Cast of color Purple, Tisha Campbell, The Wayan Brothers, Dancing with the Stars, Oprah, Halle Berry, Wil Smith, Gretchen Wilson, Slash, The Baraquio Sisters, Miss America Angela Baraquio, The Bachelorette, Chilli of TLC, Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dog, Fifty Cent, Eminem, Green Day, Maroon 5, Boo Yaa Tribe, Sugarland, Sharon Stone, Victoria Rowell, Tim Mcgraw, Barbara Mandell, NaLeo of Hawaii, and recently Gina worked with Kobe Bryant for 2 weeks Kobe says “ this is what my wife wants for Christmas”.

GINA ALEXANDER was approached by Photographer James Hill and his lovely wife Michelle who shared stories with their experience with working with NILMDTS and Gina immediately said I wanna help! Gina and her husband Richard both experienced 3 losses during invitro and surrogacy, and an adoption where the mother took the baby back. Gina now supports 50 abused children in the Philippines and raise over 20,000.00 for rehabilitation programs.

Gina started her business to raise money for her first adoption with Katelyn, she never knew her company would become this successful. Gina definitely has a giving heart, that is what she is all about…. And is excited about the partnership with Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. These are the causes that are dear to her heart as she herself express her healing process through the handbags that have encouraged a universe."

"OMG! Look at that purse!!!"

2009-03-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

--That's what I hear when I'm carrying my Gina Alexander Photo Handbag. Whenever I'm at the mall, groceries or everywhere, there's no way I'm not gonna be stopped by random stranger to ask where I got my purse.

Photo of my daughter Eira at 6 months.

Audrey Bag (one of Gina Alexander Candy Bag line)

A lot of times I'm with my daughter, so this is how people react -- they look on the purse, look at my daughter, then look on the purse again and finally the most common question, "Where did you get it?" =)

I can't wait to get a new one. My daughter is now 18 months. I should ask my husband to take a picture of Eira over the weekend. Now, I wonder which style of bag should I get... too many to choose from and they're all great designs.

Inspiring Filipinas To Suceed

2007-11-07T20:59:00.000-08:00

By Linda Dela Cruz

Loida Nicolas Lewis, a billionaire who is the richest Filipina in the U.S., with Gina Alexander

In seminars to empower others, photo handbag entrepreneur Gina Alexander shares her story of how she became a millionaire. "I'm an open person and want others to succeed," she says. "If I have something special, why not share it? It would be selfish for me to keep it."

What woman wouldn't want a bag that showcases a picture of her most precious loved ones? She launched the company as a way to subsidize her wish to adopt her own precious loved one - a child. "I'm a handbag fanatic," admits Alexander, who started the company in 2000 and adopted her daughter, Katelyn, when she was 2 weeks old, in 2003.

"Handbags are a woman's best friend - it has everything we need, so it meets an emotional need of ours."
With 6,000 square feet of Los Angeles-based office and warehouse space, Alexander easily attracted a celebrity clientele. That led her to expand her business to include the Jimi Hendrix Collection, an exclusive line of handbags and leather jackets with the entertainer's image on them. In fact, when it was time for a scheduled interview with MidWeek, Alexander was on a tour bus with the Hendrix crew. She says she chose handbags because it allows her to have time for a family - and it's her family she credits for her success.

"My best training was from my parents, Cesar and Imelda Lopez - they were the first Filipino couple to own a Denny's franchise in the United States in California," says Alexander, who spent the first five years of her life in Hawaii. "We owned hotels, restaurants, a limo service and a lot of property."

Alexander was honored last month as one of the 100 most influential Filipina Women in the United States at the Filipina Women's Network fifth annual Filipina Summit.

"We need more Filipina entrepreneurs," urges Alexander. "Alot of women need mentors, plus we have so many needs in the Philippines that need to be taken care of, like adopting children who are abandoned."

When MidWeek asked why she wants to empower other women, she said she wished she had had a mentor by her side. "I love to see others succeed," she explains. "I rejoice in other people's successes. The tools I have learned give me so much freedom, and having financial freedom is awesome. I get to travel, shop, go to seminars that cost thousands of dollars and gain a lot of knowledge."

The former jewelry designer trained in fashion design in Europe. She did marketing, forecasting and merchandising for Sue Wong Couture, Rampage Clothing Co., RAFE and Isabella Fiore. But running a corporation is no easy task, Alexander admits.

"The biggest challenge in my company is money," she says. "Our company is growing, so keeping up with new machinery and technology is not cheap. I have a high standard for my handbags. Every stitch has to be straight, every leather consistent, and I only want the best hardware from Italy. We have opened a new division 'licensing,'and it has been a challenge, but a healthy challenge. The perks are that I get to work with celebrities and rock stars up-close and personal."

Alexander says everyone has their own strengths, and she considers her strength to be creating. For a successful enterprise, Alexander believes companies need five things: someone who handles the money and is frugal; a good customer-service team; a great website director; a publicist who will get the company in all the magazines; and, finally, a product that gives value to the customer.

She says one of the secrets of her success is that she does not focus on the competition. "We are more concerned with the inside of the company," explains Alexander about her 15 employees. "If the heart is not healthy, the whole body cannot function. We go out of our way to teach our employees that how you do your job here is the habit you are creating for your life for eternity."

Alexander donates a portion of the proceeds from every bag to the Hope For Children charity, which helps families who want to adopt. "I love my life and what I do. I'm living the life I love!" gushes Alexander.

She soon will be launching www.FilipinaMillionaire.com. For more information, log onto http://www.ginaalexander.com/