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Casual Furniture, Miniature Gardens and Birding Share the Outdoor Living Spotlight in January
January is the perfect time for all retailers to think "outdoors" to plan for warm-weather sales, and the product mix in Living. Outdoor/Indoor.® The Gardens.® at AmericasMart® Atlanta is the perfect source for all that's... more »
Woodstock Chimes Puts Creative “Spin” on its Rainbow Makers
Woodstock Chimes, a leading manufacturer of musically-tuned windchimes, continues to build on the success of its ever-popular Woodstock Rainbow Makers™ Collection with its new Crystal Spiral series. The series incorporates the collection's iconic Austrian crystals... more »
U.S. Greeting Card Association Releases 2012 Christmas Card Figures, Trends
The Greeting Card Association (GCA) expects approximately 1.6 billion Christmas cards (both boxed and individual cards) to be purchased in the U.S. this year – reflecting the continued strength of the Christmas card category and... more »
Dallas Market Center Honored as a Top 100 Place to Work in D-FW for the 2nd Consecutive Year
Dallas Market Center (DMC) today announced that The Dallas Morning News has recognized DMC as one of the Top 100 Places to Work in D-FW for 2012. The best places to work list includes 30... more »
Big Additions in Dallas for January: More than 100,000 Square Feet of New Resources
Dallas Market Center today announced that the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, being held Jan. 16-22, 2013, will introduce more than 100,000 square feet of new resources from hundreds of new exhibitors during the... more »
Brass Lantern Brings Specialty Gift Store to Growing Sycamore Street Corridor in Newtown
Newtown, PA - Sycamore Street continues its transformation into a vibrant, walkable business district with the arrival of The Brass Lantern, a specialty gift store brimming with Christmas.After 30 years at Carousel Village in nearby... more »
GIANTmicrobes, Inc. Announces Big New Line-up of Contagiously Cute Toys and Collectibles for Christmas
Trim your trees and fill your stockings with new ornaments and toys from GIANTmicrobes, Inc. (www.giantmicrobes.com), the innovative designers of collectible toys inspired by the microscopic world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121112/NE10948 ) Like other GIANTmicrobes® products, the... more »
Twigs & Tides is The New Kid on the Block
Wareham, MA - Less than a week after opening her store Twigs & Tides, Margee Millspaugh is a natural who seems like she's been doing this forever.The former marketing executive for several high-tech Boston corporations... more »
On Wisconsin: Small Towns Gear up for Holiday Season
Evansville, WI - Shelley Meredith was a little hurried when I met up with her last week at the business she manages in this city's quaint downtown.Christmas can do that to a retailer.Meredith doesn't sell... more »
How Social Media Helps Small Businesses
The most important tool a business needs to fix its social media content strategy can't be bought online or found on a blog or in a chat room.Social media's all-in-one tool is patience."For all the... more »
Cash Mob Helps Out Local Business
Logansport, IN - With hushed voices and a secretive air, a group of about 15 women sneaked around the side of Village Peddler and flooded through the door to surprise store owner Cindy Meister.The "Surprise... more »
Art & Gift Gallery at the Adobe Opens for Holiday Shopping
Agoura Hills, CA - Agoura Hills will be bringing a new kind of holiday shopping experience to the public this season with the Art & Gift Gallery at the Adobe.The gallery store, located in the... more »
