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Fest means cash for Marion retailers
Marion - One of Sherrie Haver's favorite times of the year is a month away.The Marion Popcorn Festival will fill city streets with downtown visitors Sept. 10 through Sept. 12, looking for elephant ears, stromboli,... more »
Focus On: Anna Lee’s Gifts & More
Valdosta, GA — Susan Bean made sure travelers at the Valdosta Regional Airport can take a souvenir from Valdosta or Georgia home to remember their time spent here.After nine years of running a gift shop... more »
Red Maple Gifts and Your Silver Spoon is a gift shop, caterer and more
While traveling on South Main Street in Petal, a sign with a large, red maple leaf stands out among the pine trees.Red Maple Gifts and Your Silver Spoon is a gift shop, caterer and event... more »
Wisconsin’s Mustard Museum on the move
Mount Horeb, Wis. — For the final time, people will gather here Saturday on two closed-off blocks of Main Street to celebrate National Mustard Day. There will be free hotdogs with mustard — there's a... more »
Leanin’ Tree offers puzzles and crafts to gift retailers through a new partnership with MasterPieces Puzzle Company
Boulder, Colo. — Leanin' Tree has partnered with MasterPieces Puzzle Co. as a non-stocking distributor to bring a broad line of puzzles, crafts and games to their greeting card and gift retailers. The new partnership... more »
Ivy’s Vine owners put new spin on shop
Genoa -- Ivy's Vine has put a new twist on its new and vintage gift shop.Now the store is turning the vintage into something new.Owners Carolyn Huffman and Cindy Nolte have created Beadyize Vintage Bead-tique... more »
Tax Holidays Still Worth Celebrating
Even as states scramble to get their budgets in order, many still plan to offer summer sales-tax holidays. All 15 states that held summer tax holidays in 2008 will suspend their sales taxes for at... more »
Without an anchor, small businesses get moving
They include a 63-year-old barber, an optician, an immigrant-turned-pizza-shop owner, and a couple of small businessmen who opened stores after layoffs by downsizing employers.They are tenants at the Collegeville Shopping Center - mostly local folks... more »
Moss Hill: Louisville’s newest soap star
Jeanine Moneypenny has moved her Moss Hill operation out of the basement of her Crestwood home and into a bright and open new space in Butchertown Market at 1201 Story Ave.Not only does the move... more »
First, Do No Harm to Small Business?
"First, do no harm." Evidently those words don't apply to Congress and health care reform, at least not as it pertains to small business.Under the legislation introduced in the House of Representatives as America's Affordable... more »
Council seeing red over pink Perthshire shop
An award-winning Perth shop owner is seeing red over Perth and Kinross Council's stance on her pink facade. Bertie Browns in South Street is the second victim of council 'colour wars' in the city this... more »
Entrepreneurs Leverage New Orleans’s Charm to Lure Small Businesses
It has been a long time since the word "optimism" was spoken in the same sentence as "New Orleans."But a small group of entrepreneurs has been using that word lately to describe their efforts to... more »
