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Designed4Life Natural Health Solutions
Designed4Life USA was started in 2004 on the East Coast and then opened a second location in Long Beach, CA in 2007. The company offers natural products for healthy lifestyles. Designed4Life also offers gifts for home décor, such as the salt lamp shown below, which is functional, natural and beautiful. Designed4Life offers Himalayan unprocessed cooking salt, which is the healthiest salt you can find, even healthier than sea salt. Delicious ...
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2012 PGA Expo Coming to Las Vegas in August
The 2012 PGA Expo is coming to Las Vegas August 20-22 at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas and expects more than 250 golf apparel, equipment and accessory vendors and brands. This year’s event will feature new fashion presentations and displays, educational and networking programs as well as expanded product demonstrations and equipment testing. “Beginning with new outdoor instructional workshops prior to Demo Night and including daily featured speakers, new ...
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Cantepore Handcrafted Fashions from Nepal
Cantepore, Inc. is a global wholesaler and distributor offering a wide range of products imported from Nepal. The products include bags, shawls, scarves, knitted hats, animal hats, clothing, hand-crafted accessories and even glass smoking pipes, which can be found at: http://www.canteporeglass.com/. Cantepore was founded over 20 years ago by Nakul Shrestha as Oasis Exports House with headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. Since then, it has grown into an international business with partners all over the world and was ...
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B2B Marketers Succeed with Social Media
According to the 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, B2B marketers are not only using social media; they are succeeding with it. This report contains a snapshot of how B2B marketers are using social media and the benefits they’re gaining from it. The report suggests that devoting 6 hours a week to social media marketing can build your brand and help improve sales. According to the study, over 93 percent ...
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Retail Awards Provide Winning Strategies
I recently had the honor of being a judge for some retail awards. It allowed me to analyze what is happening in retail land across a number of different aspects of marketing. It really highlighted the fact that the winning strategies could actually be a model we should all be looking at and adapting to our own needs. The GFC (global financial crisis) is now old news, and the world ...
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E-Retail Growth Beats Traditional Retail
E-retail growth is faster than that of traditional retailers and is moving toward pre-recession levels. What makes web-only retailers more profitable than traditional retailers and consumer brand manufacturers? Web-only retailers can invest and optimize marketing and operations to stimulate growth without being distracted by the necessity of optimizing other channels in their overall strategy. E-Retail Growth Approaches Pre-Recession Levels Online retail sales increased about 17 percent in the first quarter ...
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Social Shopping Apps: New Way to Shop Online
JCPenney, The Gap and Nordstrom have all closed their Facebook storefronts. While some retailers haven’t had good luck with Facebook commerce, shopping site TheFind recently launched its social shopping app Glimpse, a Pinterest-like app based on Facebook Likes. Social shopping apps could be changing the way people shop online. The Glimpse app mimics Pinterest in certain aspects − it’s about social discovery and very visual. Images and videos are instantly ...
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IRCE Exhibit Hall Sold Out
Just shy of four weeks before the opening of the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2012, and the Exhibit Hall is already sold out. The Show takes place at Chicago’s McCormick Place June 5-8, where 562 companies will fill the 250,000-square-foot show floor, making it the largest display of ecommerce services and technologies in the industry. IRCE tells us this year’s Exhibit Hall will be organized in a new way ...
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Company Profiles
Designed4Life Natural Health Solutions
Designed4Life USA was started in 2004 on the East Coast and then opened a second location in Long Beach, CA in 2007. The company offers natu ...
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Cantepore Handcrafted Fashions from Nepal
Cantepore, Inc. is a global wholesaler and distributor offering a wide range of products imported from Nepal. The products include ba ...
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Kingsnakes, Exotic Reptiles: BigReptileNetwork.com Bites Back
If you’re looking for a huge, comprehensive online reptile directory, we know just the place: Big Reptile Network. This is where reptile b ...
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Wholesale
Fire in LA Fashion District under Investigation
A fire was reported in the famous LA Fashion District early Sunday morning. Fire crews of about 150 firefighters fought the blaze, which dam ...
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Top Ten Wholesale Launches New Blog
We have a new sleek look on the TopTenWholesale blog, take a look. You can see the new Topics listed to the left and Archives going back to ...
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Reader’s Choice: The Most Popular Stories of 2011
TopTenWholesale’s newsroom has been publishing wholesale and retail news over the last six years, and our blog has been around since 2005. ...
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Product News
IT Systems Reduce Apparel Costs
The introduction of IT systems can help suppliers continuously optimize their supply chain by establishing direct links between brands and s ...
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Get More Value for Your Money
WHAT’S NEW + WHAT’S HOT @ ASD LAS VEGAS – 2 WEEKS OUT IF IT LOOKS & SPARKLES LIKE A DIAMOND…IT MUST BE A DIAMOND ...
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Home Depot Liquidations from GENCO Marketplace
Home Improvement buyers will be pleased to learn about the Home Depot liquidations inventory available in truckload and pallet quantities ex ...
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Trade Shows
2012 PGA Expo Coming to Las Vegas in August
The 2012 PGA Expo is coming to Las Vegas August 20-22 at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas and expects more than 250 golf appare ...
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IRCE Exhibit Hall Sold Out
Just shy of four weeks before the opening of the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2012, and the Exhibit Hall is already sold ou ...
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G.L.D.A. Gem & Jewelry Show in Las Vegas May 28-31
The G.L.D.A. wholesale gem & jewelry show was established in 1979 in Tucson, AZ, and launched its 1st annual Las Vegas Gem & Jewelry ...
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Marketing
B2B Marketers Succeed with Social Media
According to the 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, B2B marketers are not only using social media; they are succeeding with it. Th ...
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Retail Awards Provide Winning Strategies
I recently had the honor of being a judge for some retail awards. It allowed me to analyze what is happening in retail land across a number ...
Read more »
E-Retail Growth Beats Traditional Retail
E-retail growth is faster than that of traditional retailers and is moving toward pre-recession levels. What makes web-only retailers more p ...
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Business
New Resource Debuts for Start Up Companies
According to statistics from the Small Business Administration, seven out of ten new companies survive at least two years and 51 percent s ...
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Idea World Specializes in Product Development
Idea World Co. was established in 1991 and specializes in the development of product ideas. It is a venture company headquartered in Korea t ...
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FTC Final Report on Protecting Consumer Privacy
Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final report specifying a framework of “best practices” for businesses to ...
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Asia
The Rise of Manufacturing in the USA
Large, international Chinese corporations are shifting production to America to expand their global footprint and avoid anti-dumping tariffs ...
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Chinese Exports Increase Despite Higher Costs
In spite of recent wage increases and slowing international demand, China’s exports continue to usurp market share as its manufacturer ...
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2012 Nanjing International Consumer Goods Expo in September
The 2012 Nanjing International Consumer Goods Expo will be held this fall at the Nanjing International Exhibition Center on September 27-30. ...
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Top Ten
Top Ten Ideas from a Group of Farm Retailers
I have just finished speaking at the FARMA Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. This conference was a mix of a tour, trade show and conference ...
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Top Ten Press Release Tips for Wholesalers
by Claudia Bruemmer As most wholesalers know, press releases should be optimized for good rankings and to make them easy to find in search e ...
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Top Ten Retailing Ideas of 2011
Retailing for Christmas 2011 is now behind us, and many forecasted it would be one of the more difficult Christmas trading periods we have h ...
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