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December 11, 2007
Seattle Market Week offers competitive strategies for 2008 with expert-led educational seminars and trend-setting product lines

Seattle - Pacific Market Center, the leading destination market on the west coast, will host the Winter Gift & Home Accessories Show, the Pacific Northwest's premier seven-day market event, on January 30-February 5, 2008. Known... more »

December 11, 2007
Growth Spurs Move to New Facility, Expanded Showroom For Ontario-Based Giftcraft Ltd.

Brampton, Ontario - Giftcraft Ltd., a leading producer of gifts, home decor and garden products, announces its relocation to a new state-of-the-art corporate office-showroom-distribution complex near the company's former facility. The new 264,000 square-foot headquarters... more »

December 11, 2007
Shopping Showdown: Better Deals Await Those Who Wait

Sale-hyped events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday are already part of Christmas Past. But fear not, for behold there are more good tidings when it comes to bargains as the mega-buying season heads... more »

December 11, 2007
Businesswoman turns tragedy into dream business

Santa Cruz -- Community Chest Treasures, 41st Avenue's newest little art gallery and gift shop, is tucked amid surf shops in a mostly residential neighborhood.The walls are floor-to-ceiling art with everything from handcrafted exotic wood... more »

December 10, 2007
Upper Canada Selects OneCoast to Provide National Sales Representation

OneCoast, the largest and only national provider of sales and marketing services to vendors and retailers of home decor, gift and collegiate products, announced today that it will sell the complete line of Upper Canada... more »

December 10, 2007
Gift-givers share area’s culture with locally made goods

Joyce Bledsoe has got a thing for Rochester. The 64-year-old resident of Jacksonville, Fla., has been enthralled with the area ever since shopping at a Wegmans store in October while visiting her daughter and son-in-law,... more »

December 10, 2007
Trapped in the gift card web

People are increasingly turning to gift cards as spending hours in a crowded mall looking for that last Xbox, iPod or Elmo grows less and less appealing. But shoppers should do a bit of research... more »

December 10, 2007
Not your typical toy-buying season

San Francisco (MarketWatch) -- Before the recent spate of toy recalls, Ashley DiGeronimo never bothered reading the fine print that revealed where a toy was manufactured."I never gave it a second thought," said DiGeronimo of... more »

December 10, 2007
Friends Take ‘Leap Of Faith,’ Buy Eclectic Gift Shop

Dade City - You could call it "Margaret and Brenda's excellent adventure," the tale of two middle-aged women who took an unanticipated career turn into retailing just as the pivotal holiday-shopping season unfolds.Margaret Angell and... more »

December 9, 2007
Muskegon stores hope their ‘Synergy’ helps all

Synergy" is a term used by urban-planning wonks who talk to each other in their own language. But it has a dollars-and-cents meaning for a group of more than two dozen specialty retail shops in... more »

December 9, 2007
Want a unique gift?

Cookeville -- A Wii for your teenager. Check. Golf clubs for hubby. Check. A nice, fuzzy robe and slippers for grandma. Done and done. But what do you buy for that best friend with eclectic... more »

December 7, 2007
Claire Murray Launches Signature Boutique Program

Claire Murray has introduced a new division of her company that will give existing retailers and new store owners the opportunity to carry her entire product line of hand-hooked rugs, home accessories and apparel. The... more »

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