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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12/01/2007 - Sweet Smell Of Scent Success
Fragrances and scented PRODUCTS have a way of selling themselves, and there are scores of merchandise resellers cashing in on that very idea.

12/01/2007 - Stock Kiosks With Top Sellers
More so than traditional retailers, kiosk and cart vendors benefit from regularly refreshing their PRODUCT mix with new merchandise that will cause busy mall shoppers to stop and look.

12/01/2007 - Price Perfect Gems
Morfra Designs manufactures a full selection of designer sterling silver jewelry for women, with some designs for men, totaling over 6,000 styles and new designs added daily.

11/01/2007 - Wholesale Unlimited Expands
Wholesale Unlimited, a closeout wholesaler based in Crystal River, FL, just got less limited.

11/01/2007 - Selling Unique PRODUCTS
The most successful kiosks and carts offer customers something they can't get elsewhere.

11/01/2007 - Master of More Than Price
Twenty years ago, PriceMaster, a wholesale distributor in Woodside, NY, wholesaled about 1,000 different PRODUCTS throughout the tri-state area from a warehouse of a few thousand square feet.

11/01/2007 - Jewelry & Watch Bonanza
Inspired by celebrities, watches and jewelry are taking on more sparkle, suppliers report.

10/01/2007 - Web Dreams Come True For Blue Bay
Remember those stories in the late 1990s about Internet startups and their employees, working nearly around the clock, catching brief snoozes on the office floor and dreaming of their big IPO on Wall Street?

10/01/2007 - Gifts & Housewares Spark Sales
During the all important fourth quarter, a mix of practical and unusual PRODUCTS is expected to motivate holiday shoppers to dig deeper into their wallets.

10/01/2007 - Fashion Accessories: Never Out Of Season
The leading sales category for the past two holiday seasons has been Apparel & Clothing, which saw double digit growth, year over year.

10/01/2007 - Crystal Fresh Tailors Programs
The familiar adage, "location, location, location," so often applied to real estate, applies in equal importance to the location of kiosks and carts.

09/01/2007 - Growing Dollars From Scents
Spending on pleasing fragrances and scents continues to climb, according to suppliers.

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?

08/01/2007 - Impulse Is Key To Kiosk Sales
Merchandising from a kiosk or cart, more than from an inline mall store, relies on getting attention and stopping passersby in their tracks.

08/01/2007 - Fresh Toys & Novelties Push Retail Profits
The number of new toys and novelties that come to market each year is a tribute to the imagination of inventors, designers, and suppliers.

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 - Savvy Retailers Seek HOT Holiday PRODUCTS
It is coming up fast: that time of year when the jingle of sleigh bells equals the jingle of change in the registers of savvy retailers.

07/01/2007 - Fashion Accessories Grow Sales
Imagine growing every sales transaction by a percentage or more. That's the potential represented by adding fashion accessories to the merchandise mix.

06/01/2007 - Housewares & Gifts Summer Forecast
June can be an extraordinary month for retailers in terms of finding a fantastic mix of HOT PRODUCTS and cool prices.

05/01/2007 - Windowsill Gardens
DUNE CRAFT introduces "Windowsill Greenhouse," offered in 11 different styles and individual themes.

05/01/2007 - Sunglass Fashion Update
Summer fashion trends are often like the season itself. They come, go and come back again. Sometimes they look vastly different from the prior year; other times, the fashion is familiar to a time you almost forgot existed.

05/01/2007 - Quality & Service In the Bag At Handbag Express
Barry Herrington retired back in 1999 after three decades in the manufacturing and wholesaling industry, where he was a highly successful designer of underwater spa lighting systems and open heart surgical equipment.

03/01/2007 - Halloween Grows Up Online
Halloween has always been a seasonal marketplace about costumes, decorations, parties and candy.

03/01/2007 - Colors Turn Vibrant
Chili Pepper, a deep, vibrant red, comes to the forefront of color in PRODUCTS this year. For home fashion, newer, more vibrant colors join with earth tones, according to forecasts by two leading color consultants.

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 - WholesaleCentral.com Debuts Asian Sources
Ever since China was accepted into the World Trade Organization in December 2001, the world has seen a growing demand for quality exports from Asian businesses.

02/01/2007 - Sunglasses Sales Shine All Year
Once considered a seasonal category, sunglasses are now HOT sellers year round, regardless of climate and geographic location, according to suppliers.

02/01/2007 - Solid Year For Online Toy Sales
A survey of online toy wholesalers and retailers reveals a good but not great year in 2006, and promising prospects for '07.

02/01/2007 - Galaxy Rock'N Rolls In Profits
"You could say a lot of different experiences helped me get to where I am today," says Lou Monachello, President of Galaxy Distributors.

01/01/2007 - Positive Marketing From Your Limited Database
Discouraged by your limited ability to target past customers? Whether you are in wholesale or retail, you are not alone. Even some of today's fastest growing companies do not have their web divisions set up the way they want or need them to be. So how can you compensate if you do not have precious data on visitors because you do not have a proper analytics program?

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.