News and resources covering independent retailers, big box stores, home accent specialty stores and furnishings stores including openings, closings, expansions, personnel changes, retailer profiles and best practices.
Miami Mumbai gallery opens 06/16/2009
Miami Mumbai, a boutique Indian art gallery, is open at 4471 SW 71st Ave., offering museum quality home décor and items by master artisans, including Mithila art and the work of Baua Devi.
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GHTA launches Web site to support independent retailers 06/05/2009
The Gift and Home Trade Association, a non-profit professional trade association dedicated to ensuring the gift and home industry's long term health and viability, has launched the Independent Retailer Resource Center which provides tools, resources, information and ideas to help small business owners effectively promote themselves as independent retailers.
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Promoting your store: The press release Susan Dickenson, Retail Editor - 06/01/2009
A couple of years ago, January 2007, to be exact, my Retail Update column was about hosting and promoting in-store events to benefit local charities. Included in the text was a link to a simple generic template for writing a press release. I'm providing the link again in this month's column because whenever I hear retailers discuss press coverage, this is a topic that always seems to come up.
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Retail profile: Total Bliss By Susan Dickenson - 06/01/2009
Total Bliss, in Huntersville, N.C., operates as an independently-owned store within Blacklion Huntersville, a multi-merchant retail and design center. Owner Nancy McKee, says the advantages and disadvantages of owning a small shop are the same as those associated with a large shop ... just in smaller scale.
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Retail profile: Pepperberry's By Susan Dickenson - 06/01/2009
Laurie Weingartner has filled Pepperberry's, her small shop in New Wilmington, Pa., with "fabulous and special" treasures that she would love to have in her own home. "I never ask a vendor what the top selling piece in the line is. If it doesn't speak to me, it doesn't make the cut." Home accents occupy the first floor of her two-story building, a 700-sq.
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Retail profile: C.A.N.O.P.Y. By Susan Dickenson - 06/01/2009
Carol Sandlin, owner of C.A.N.O.P.Y., in Cartersville, Ga., says one of the biggest advantages of being a small shopowner is that she gets to know many of her customers and their families so personally. "I can offer suggestions specific to many of my customers, remind friends and family of special occasions or alert them to an item that someone admired earlier.
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Driving PR to Your Store.
Editor Jenny Heinzen York offers some inexpensive and practical tricks you can put to use right away to drive media exposure for your store. Produced in conjunction with the Gift and Home Channel. See the video.
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