http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:48:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To focus on the Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival, as it's commonly referred to) we start with a little bit of history. The celebration is centuries old, and holds a lot of cultural truisms that give outsiders a very solid grasp of Chinese traditions and values within the context ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/chinese-new-year/ There's a lot of money on the move. Most of that money seems to have moved pretty far away, too... as we deal with a ripple-effect of consumer confidence issues now that the holidays are past us, and the reality of a brand new year ahead. Some of the recent ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/specialty-retail-show-spree/ This year, Shanghai will be the focal point of the trade show universe from May 01 to October 31... and while the dust settles around China's undisputed top-tier international city, with preparations being finalized for the massive event that is reportedly expecting to rack up about 70 million visitors, the ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/shanghai-expo/ It seems there isn't a major publication on Earth that isn't currently running headline stories about China, and with good reason; the shifting economic balance towards the east has taken many people by surprise, while those in the know have been trying to tell everyone for some time now. For ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/china-bubble-economy/ We made it past the last quarter of 2009, and now that the dust has settled, we're staring straight down an open runway as this new year brings a first quarter without a major holiday sales drive, and an already vulnerable consumer base that has been plagued with a prolonged ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/flea-market-retailing-trends/general-merchandise-online/ Did you get everything you wanted from Santa this year? Maybe one or two items didn't quite make the cut, and now you want to take them back to their place of origin for a return, exchange, or in-store credit. For consumers, this is the usual scenario year after year, ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/wholesale-retail-returns-risk-reward/ With Mardi Gras coming up in just about a month from now, there is a lot of preparation, expectation, and excitement about this new year and a new beginning... so what better way to get in the mood than to enjoy the celebration of “Fat Tuesday” with thousands of other ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/products-guide/katydid-collection-mardi-gras/ With all the holiday fervor behind us, it's time to look straight down the barrel, and take aim as the new year gets off to a huge start. To put it quite bluntly, it's hard to get more huge than the CES Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and this is ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/ces-electronics-show-vegas/ It looks like the 2009 shopping rush paid off, at least at first glance anyway. Retailers and wholesalers were hoping for an energetic last-minute sales craze that would boost holiday sales for the year, and consumers came through. 'Twas the week before Christmas that made many of these sellers sigh ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/holiday-retail-wholesale-sales-hot-not/ It's called shanzai, and it's a hot topic in China these days. It should also be a hot topic amongst those in the know within the wholesale network circle as well, because it's something that affects everything from manufacturers... to distributors... to the buyers who shell out for goods that ... http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/uncategorized/wholesale-shanzai-culture-china/