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Girls Incorporated Honors High Intencity Corporation President Renee Levy
New York, NY – Girls Inc. will honor Renee Levy, President, High IntenCity Corporation at the annual Girls Inc. New York Celebration Luncheon at the New York Hilton on March 13th. A powerful gathering of over 1,000 business and community leaders committed to the Girls Inc. mission of inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, the event recognizes those women and men who, by their work and example, are creating a better future for girls.
Annaleece Introduces New March Items
Committed to offering customers a complete approach to retailing, Annaleece is excited to introduce 20 new fashion jewelry designs to their current collection!
Boutique offers a personal touch
Bethany Beach —- A unique boutique will open soon, offering gift items suitable for any occasion.
Cattails gift shop, located in Bethany’s Marketplace at Sea Colony, will be opening its doors in just a few weeks to customers looking for more personalized keepsakes and souvenirs.
The store, owners say, will save people the drive to Salisbury or Rehoboth Beach when they’re in the market for special birthday presents, wedding gifts or other special occasion items.
Owners and good friends Kathryn Ball and Dawn Zimmerman have been vacationing in Bethany for years.
The Hidden Risk in Cutting Retail Payroll
Managers of big retail stores have an opportunity to boost profits by maintaining or increasing staffing levels even when sales are slipping.
That idea will probably sound strange to store managers, who tend to cut staff hours if there’s a dip in sales. Such cuts make perfect sense to the companies’ executives, given that big retailers place great weight on hitting prescribed targets for payroll as a percentage of sales.
Everything your art desires’ in Marlborough
Marlborough — Step inside the door covered with a painting of the Mona Lisa with a lilac in her hair to enter Randi Isaacson’s own version of the Louvre Museum on Rte.
THT Designs to Expand its Framed Art Product Line
Omaha, Ne. – THT Designs has discovered a new generation of customers that are turning to framed art for the sentiment that previous generations found in figurines and table sitters. “People no longer want a ‘drive-by’ experience in regard to their art,” says DeWitt Kendall, Director of Product Development and Merchandising.
Scandle Body Candle LLC Wins Skin Inc.’s Best of Best Awards
Dallas, TX – Scandle LLC, the leading manufacturer and wholesaler of the finest quality massage candles, today announced their new line of all natural, preservative-free spa products that enhance The Scandle Body Candle experience.
Products included in Scandle’s Body Line are specially formulated to ensure long-shelf life and can be combined with the warm oil from The Scandle Massage Candle to create unique, therapeutic spa treatments for professional or home use.
National Stationery Show Launches Paper Craft Seminar Track
White Plains, NY – The spring 2008 edition of the New York Gift Cash & Carry Show Gifts to Go will present an ideal buying opportunity for retailers, offering convenient inventory-building options for the spring and summer selling season. Running April 3-5, 2008, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Gifts to Go will feature some 150 exhibitors, all showcasing products available for immediate delivery.
Barnstorm announces License Agreement with Carol Eldridge
Marietta, Ga. – As part of its 2008 mid-year product offering, Barnstorm will release two new home and garden collections designed by artist Carol Eldridge. Known for her bright, exuberant designs, Eldridge’s art is a natural complement to Barnstorm’s innovative perspective on garden accessories, gifts and decor.
“We are so pleased to be working with someone as talented as Carol. With her lighthearted spirit and unique point of view, she’s a perfect match for Barnstorm,” said Jeff Odell, Barnstorm’s president.
Grant Dawson Collections Debuts at NY Tabletop Market
McLean, VA—After more than a decade working in the decorative arts field, well-known artists and designers, Sheri Gorsen and Cindy Testa, have channeled their creative energies into a new socially and environmentally responsible company, Grant Dawson Collections.
Midwest President Appointed to National Candle Association Board of Directors
Cannon Falls, MN – The National Candle Association (NCA) appointed to its board of directors Frederic Contino, President of Midwest, leading designer and manufacturer of the Seasons of Cannon Falls brand of holiday and seasonal home accents, premium Colonial Candle brand of home fragrance products, and Delight accents to brighten the home. Contino joins the 16-person NCA board as the membership chair.
“Rick brings a fresh dimension to the NCA board, lending his leadership, expertise and vision for the future,” says Valerie Cooper, NCA Executive Vice President.
Nostalgia: Red Door Gifts makes move to historic Pine
Marilynn Langston is making another investment in downtown Rolla.
On Tuesday, Langston reopened Red Door Gifts at its new location at 700 North Pine St., moving the business out of its old location at 116 West 8th St.
“I believe in Rolla’s downtown so much that I’ve purchased a second building,” Langston said in her new building at the corner of Pine and 7th streets. “This is the old Asher Market building.
Gallery owner focuses on building business
Bradenton — Annie Russini loves to sit on her front lawn and greet people as they approach her shop in the Village of the Arts.
“I always come outside and invite people in,” she said, as she sat in front of her coral and periwinkle-colored bungalow. “They’ll stand there, stop and look and have a question mark on their face.
Priest’s egg art imbues his faith
The Rev. Kevin Cameron leads a frenetic pace, especially shepherding his Our Lady of the Americas congregation through the Lenten season.
So the Catholic priest turns to art to center his spirituality leading up to Easter.
Cameron retires to the sun-drenched front room of his small east-side Des Moines home to color Easter eggs.
This isn’t simply dipping an egg in colorful dime-store dye – as so many kids and their parents do.
You may be paying $400 to $600 a year to offset shoplifting costs
Retail theft used to get little attention and retailers were just fine with that.
Little press meant that potential thieves could not figure out how to steal from them and that the public would not learn that most of the theft was done internally or that theft is widespread throughout the industry.
But Dan Doyle, the 50-year-old vice president of loss prevention and human resources for Bradenton-based Bealls Inc., has spent the past few years talking about it — with everyone who would listen: other retailers, law enforcement and even the public.
As a spokesman in the retail loss prev
Eulogy for an Independent Bookstore
LA is a city known more for its light than its landmarks. The Ambassador Hotel, where Bobby Kennedy was shot, is gone, as is the Brown Derby, the legendary restaurant where celebrities dined on Cobb salad, invented by co-owner Bob Cobb. But when the Los Angeles Times (itself in failing health) reported last week that Dutton’s Brentwood would be closing in April, people were aghast.
Company builds success through fair trade
At the gift shop inside the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, a handful of necklaces — both long and short — are on display by the register. The long necklaces have big, bold-colored beads.
For Sabbath on Saturdays, Fewer Open Shops
For Elizabeth Allen, it started when she needed a box of nails on a recent Saturday and the Great Neck hardware store she had patronized for years was closed. It hit Bruce Kerievsky when he went to his favorite barbershop in the Old Village and found it shuttered.
Small Biz: Passion for decorating leads to new store
Andrew Downs is hoping his new Five Points interior design business, Andrew Downs and Co., can help curb Athens shoppers’ trips to Atlanta to buy material they can’t find locally.
Downs, who lives in Winder, opened his full-service interior design shop and upscale gift shop Feb.
Pompton Lakes store is Celtic treasure-trove
It takes eight yards of material to make a kilt, and there are more than 4,000 registered tartans.
Jewelry with a Celtic claddagh — symbol of two hands holding a crowned heart — can be given as a gift to anyone.
The famed Irish china made in the village of Belleek celebrated its 150th anniversary with an archive collection.
Arran Aromatics, a company on the Isle of Arran off southwest Scotland, creates organic soaps, perfumes and lotions packaged with a decorative thistle, the Scottish national flower.
“We have a holiday home there,” said Laura Rooney, who with her husband, Gerry