Wholesale News & Articles

INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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08/01/2008 - Footwear & Apparel Forecast
Few categories can match the Footwear & Apparel niches when it comes to cultivating REVENUE from August through December. From Back-to-School to Christmas, consumers are buying shoes and clothes for school, work and gifting occasions.

08/01/2008 - DollarDays Merges with Insignia
DollarDays International, an online wholesaler and closeout company, has merged into Insignia Solutions PLC, a United Kingdom legal entity listed on the National Daily Quotations Journal under the symbol INSGY.PK

07/01/2008 - Meeting Global Challenges
The decline of the U.S. dollar has led many domestic online retailers to consider targeting international markets as a way of expanding their customer base and REVENUE.

07/01/2008 - Amazon Sues New York
Amazon.com has filed a suit in New York State Supreme Court, charging that New York State's recently amended sales tax law is, "invalid, illegal and unconstitutional," and that it unfairly targets Amazon.com.

06/01/2008 - Remote Control Zooms Sales
In 1996, unlike his high school freshmen classmates, Kevork "Kev" Kouyoumjian was too industriously preoccupied to care whether or not he was in one of life's awkward stages.

06/01/2008 - Education For Sellers At eBay Live 2008
Later this month, more than 10,000 entrepreneurs and other businesspeople will convene at McCormick Place West in Chicago. They will be in attendance for the seventh annual eBay Live Show, which runs June 19-21.

05/01/2008 - SBA Offers Help
The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched Emerging 200 Initiative, a program designed to get entrepreneurs to the next level of success.

05/01/2008 - MarketLive Launches FastTrack 2008
MarketLive, Inc., the leading global eCommerce software and service provider for retailers.

05/01/2008 - Jewelry Honors Heroes
NINA CUSAMELLI LLC has introduced the Heroes Cross collection of sterling silver necklaces and pins that depict heroes, which on most of the designs, emanate from a central circle to form a cross.

04/01/2008 - Turning 10 Cents into $10 in Two Minutes at Tatstore.Com
Kirk Knapp owned and operated a Grand Rapids, MI area investment banking and brokerage business for years, before selling it in 1999.

04/01/2008 - Rebates Reward Retailers
Businesses will be directly helped by the new economic stimulus legislation passed by Congress. But small businesses in general, and retailers in particular, may get the biggest lift from consumers spending their tax rebates.

04/01/2008 - Payment Fraud Grows
The percentage of online REVENUE lost to fraud in 2007 held steady with 2006 at 1.4 percent.

02/01/2008 - Kapa Boosts Profits
Everyone knows that a great customer experience is critical for business success.

01/01/2008 - Generating Post Sale Buys
In the last column I provided ten sure-fire ways to reduce your shopping cart abandonment rate.

12/01/2007 - What Do Buyers Want?
In a world crowded with counterfeits, shoppers are drawn to the authentic, a characteristic that retailers must learn to earn.

12/01/2007 - Vision For Growth
GENCO Marketplace was a burgeoning company for 14 years, offering surplus inventories and liquidating millions of dollars worth of merchandise daily.

12/01/2007 - ECommerce Helps Small Biz
A growing percentage of REVENUE generated by small retailers is being derived from eCommerce transactions.

11/01/2007 - NRF Pushes Web Tax
The National Retail Federation (NRF) and nearly 100 retailers and trade associations are asking Congress to approve legislation

11/01/2007 - Beaver Gumball Machine
Beaver Gumball Machines, the Cadillac of the industry and previously available only to wholesalers and distributors, now has a consumer version available for resellers.

10/01/2007 - Gift Giant Joins Santa's Pen
Although kiosks and carts are increasingly present all year long, they swell by double digit proportions during the fourth quarter holiday season, propelled by none other than Santa.

09/01/2007 - Teamwork Drives UB2B's Success
One of the key components of Fatima Siner's game plan for business success includes the philosophy used by all winning football coaches: surround yourself with the best assistants and the most talented personnel.

09/01/2007 - Social Shopping Sites
People who love to shop, also love to talk about shopping.

09/01/2007 - Private Label Booms
The nation's top retailers are differentiating by using private brands that customers can't find elsewhere.

09/01/2007 - Fab Footwear Online
Did you know that Zappos.com went from $8.5 million in REVENUE five years ago to $597 million in 2006?

09/01/2007 - Diversify Finances
When a business is in its first years of existence, it's very tempting for an entrepreneur to put every cent toward building the company, often at the expense of a personal financial portfolio.

09/01/2007 - Benefits of Vertical Search Engines
The Internet is a vast repository of information which can seduce busy wholesale buyers to spend hours searching for products and services for their businesses.

08/01/2007 - Stores Catching Up Online
Retailers that only sell online are rated higher in customer satisfaction than websites operated by brick and mortar retailers. But the latter group is catching up.

08/01/2007 - Apparel Heats Up Fall Sales
Few product categories match apparel when it comes to merchandising REVENUE from August through the rest of the year.

07/01/2007 - Web Profits: Strategies to Skyrocket Sales
Increasing website sales is a process involving three, primary components.

07/01/2007 - Clothing Trumps Computers Online
As total web sales are projected to hit $259 billion this year, some shifts are taking place among the top selling online product categories.

05/01/2007 - Tweeter Tweaks Biz
Tweeter Home Entertainment, the Canton, MA electronics retailer, is closing 49 under performing stores from its current portfolio of 153. It is exiting California, Tennessee, Alabama, New York, and parts of Georgia.

05/01/2007 - How And When To Add Staff
In the competitive world of web based wholesaling, one thing is a constant: owners and employees are stretched to the limit.

04/01/2007 - User Revolution Alters Web
With the rise of the Internet as a mass medium, worldwide online advertising is expected to exceed $81 billion in five years. That represents a compound annual growth rate of approximately 21 percent.

04/01/2007 - SBA Ups '08 Budget
President Bush has announced a proposed increase in the 2008 budget for the U.S. Small Business Administration.

04/01/2007 - Last Minute Tax Tips
The old adage that just two things are inevitable: death and taxes, fails to show another similarity these two subjects have in common: People like to put off thinking about them.

04/01/2007 - Keeping Clear Of Audits
The idea of a tax audit instills fear in even the most scrupulously honest taxpayer.

03/01/2007 - Wholesale2U.com Aids Schools
An up and coming member of the wholesale community, Wholesale2u.com, has been offering schools across the nation the chance to participate in their unique fundraising programs, both offline and online.

03/01/2007 - Strategic Web Planning
Many online retailers, big and small, operate without a strategic plan. This is a mistake, according to industry experts.

03/01/2007 - Jumping On The Kiosk Boom
Over the past five years, retail REVENUEs and rents from kiosks and carts have doubled to reach $10 billion, according to Specialty Retail Report.

03/01/2007 - Boosting International Web Sales
The Internet has made the world a true global marketplace, but it is still easy for web retailers and wholesalers to forget what lies beyond their domestic borders.

02/01/2007 - Securing the Right Financing
Plenty of great Internet success stories started in a basement office with a few hundred dollars and a dream.

02/01/2007 - Personalize Web Shopping
Personalization techniques can not only help an online retailer get more customers, it can also build loyalty and add to tickets by cross selling and getting more shoppers to trade up.

02/01/2007 - Gift Cards Keep Giving
Gift cards reached an estimated $24.8 billion, or about four percent of all 2006 holiday spending, according to most estimates.

01/01/2007 - Managing Shipping
The cost of shipping a one pound box from L.A. to New York can range anywhere from $1.73 to $69.73, depending on shipping options. A Forrester Research study for Shop.org says online sales of items shipped are expected to increase 20 percent this year, to approach $132 billion.

01/01/2007 - How the Small Survive Online
While the Amazons, Dells and Sears of the Internet landscape dominate online commerce, it is the small wholesalers and retailers who make the web hum. Statistics on the exact number of mom and pop websites are tough to come by, but needless to say that without the millions of small online storefronts dotting the web, ecommerce would not be the bustling, diverse selling alternative that it is.