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Spagnolos open coffee shop/gift shop in Glenwood Springs
Glenwood Springs - The saddest thing was seeing smoke billowing out of the front door and a giant, soaking-wet teddy bear sitting out front."It was horrible. It was a nightmare," said Becky Spagnolo.It's been a... more »
GIFT SHOP Magazine announces launch of online Retail Forum
Hanover, Mass. - GIFT SHOP magazine is proud to announce the launch of its online Retail Forum at GIFTSHOPForum.com.The Retail Forum is GIFT SHOP magazine's newest online venture and is meant to bring gift store... more »
Winter NYIGF 2008 Introduces Exciting Changes & Improvements
White Plains, NY - Change is in the air! The Winter 2008 New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF), will feature new and enhanced offerings, refined product categories and more than 1,000 companies with new booth... more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
