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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09/01/2009 - Vanguard Sunglasses Inc.
This company maintains an inventory of about 600 different styles of sunglasses for men, women and children, along with 300 styles of readers.

09/01/2009 - Toys & Novelties Extravaganza
Toys and novelties are in high demand this holiday season, as long as they represent good value for dollars spent on fun.

09/01/2009 - RETAILers Sell Accessories
Certain high profile apparel chains are expanding their collections of accessories, trying to boost overall sales and take up some of the slack left by dipping clothing sales.

09/01/2009 - Gift Wholesalers Hopeful for the Holidays
As with every business sector, those working in the gift industry have just one question regarding the recession: Is it over yet?

09/01/2009 - D.C. Jaymes & Company
This is a supplier of virtually all the pricing and tagging supplies and equipment needed in a RETAIL store.

09/01/2009 - Content Trumps All
Quality is more important than quantity when it comes to designing a RETAIL website, according to Lauren Freedman, president of research and consulting for E-Tailing Group Inc.

09/01/2009 - Celebrating The King of Pop
HEAVENLY BODY PRODUCTS offers a wide variety of posters, T-shirts and buttons in honor of Michael Jackson.

08/01/2009 - Sunglasses From Mass Vision
Mass Vision Inc., a supplier of sunglasses based in Rochester, NY, has made several changes that make selecting and ordering easier and more cost effective for RETAILer buyers.

08/01/2009 - RETAIL Crime Jumps
Organized RETAIL crime activity rose eight percent in the past year, according to the National RETAIL Federation's fifth annual Organized RETAIL Crime Survey.

08/01/2009 - ONLINE RETAILers Shift Tactics
The economy is forcing web RETAILers to change their marketing tactics, in order to acquire and retain customers.

08/01/2009 - High Margins For Kiosk Success
Because carts and kiosks necessarily contain a limited variety of product, it is not only important that products sell through at a rapid pace, but also that each sale garners the vendor a healthy profit margin.

08/01/2009 - Dollar Store Items From JKE
JKE ENTERPRISES carries more than 10,000 different items encompassing 31 product categories.

08/01/2009 - Christmas and Holiday Buying Preview
"It's never too early to start thinking about the holidays," goes the old saying, and while the summer months may seem a bit premature to start contemplating the upcoming holiday.

08/01/2009 - Animal Print Handbags
FALK SALES has put together an assortment of popular animal print handbags. This preselected assortment contains 10 bags, for a total wholesale of $99.

07/01/2009 - Web Satisfaction Drops
Customer satisfaction with many of the largest ONLINE RETAILers declined three percent this year versus last, according to the annual Top 100 ONLINE RETAIL Satisfaction Index from ForeSee Results and FGI Research.

07/01/2009 - Via Trading Live Auction Leader
In a business world full of buyouts, bailouts and bankruptcies, closeout wholesaler, Via Trading Corp., is a notable exception.

07/01/2009 - New ASD East Trade Show
Nielsen Business Media's Merchandise Group, producers of the ASD trade shows, will hold a re-focused show, ASD EAST, September 13-15, 2009 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.

07/01/2009 - LLD Gift of Knowledge
The Life Learning Device (LLD) is a revolutionary new tool which allows people to expand their wisdom with a touch of the button.

07/01/2009 - Barber and Company For the Love of T-shirts
In a T-shirt filled America, Barber & Company is not merely just another provider.

07/01/2009 - Anjay Traders
This company maintains an inventory of about 400 different styles and sizes of knives and swords.

06/01/2009 - Wholesalers Expand ONLINE Offerings
Internet wholesale suppliers large and small are enhancing their ONLINE marketing and sales strategies to help their RETAILer customers get more bang for the buck.

06/01/2009 - Website Discounts Lux Home Goods
One Kings Lane makes its web debut as an invitation required, membership ONLINE shopping destination that offers deep discounts on designer home goods.

06/01/2009 - Social Network Boosts Local RETAIL
The social networking site MySpace.com has joined forces with ONLINE guidebook Citysearch.com to launch MySpace Local.

06/01/2009 - Picking Kiosk Product Winners
While good salesmanship and dedication are essential ingredients to success with kiosks and carts, selecting the right product is critical to attracting attention and making sales.

06/01/2009 - Multichannel Marketing
What is Multichannel Marketing? For someone new to ecommerce, and even those that have been around for awhile, it is something that you must understand and use in today's ever-growing, ever-changing ONLINE marketplace.

05/01/2009 - Web Merchants Win in Court
Several federal court cases within the past year have ruled in favor of ONLINE RETAILers who had been charged with violating privacy laws that restrict the use of credit card information.

05/01/2009 - Vintage Bottle Openers
BROWN MANUFACTURING COMPANY supplies more than 200 different vintage wall mounted bottle openers and a line of about three dozen bottle cap catchers.

05/01/2009 - Safe Kiosks and Profits From Security
Securing a kiosk or cart against theft, especially during off hours, is an important consideration that can be addressed with an affordable closed circuit television system.

05/01/2009 - Postage From Your PC
Take three mechanical engineers from Stanford providing consulting services to the USPS Facilities department, expand their contributions to other areas, including mail operations...

04/01/2009 - Three Big eCommerce Tips
With the economic crisis forcing small business owners to slash costs, while trying to build up sales and revenue, ecommerce is increasingly seen as an attractive market environment.

04/01/2009 - Store Pickup Gains
Web shoppers and RETAILers alike are increasingly favoring in-store pickups, according to a recent study by Forrester Research Inc.

04/01/2009 - Small Electronics
While the economic slowdown has had obvious, far ranging effects on many wholesale and RETAIL sectors, it's actually been a boon for many wholesalers specializing in small electronics.

04/01/2009 - Sites Wield Influence
User reviews and recommendations on ONLINE RETAIL sites are more useful for typical web shoppers who plan to reduce the amount of money they spend on a variety of products, according to a recent study.

04/01/2009 - Roth's Choice
This company specializes in closeouts of name brand personal hair care products, including blow driers and curling irons.

04/01/2009 - Innovative Products at Silver Streak
Mike Mallon, CEO of Silver Streak Ind., knows how to help his customers move product.

04/01/2009 - Fun For Kids From Peabodys
The card kits sold by Peabody's Toys That Teach Inc., are a product waiting to explode.

04/01/2009 - Dakota Steel Art For Wind Spinners
Wind spinners have come a long way from their origin. In the Thirties, they were called wind twirlers, and were similar to a vertical windmill, in that a single twisted piece of metal was angled into the wind.

04/01/2009 - Cornucopia of Skulls
JACPA INTERNATIONAL has nearly 100 different items in the form of skulls. The majority are made of polyresin, while a few are ceramic.

04/01/2009 - 3 Most Important Web Pages
To be successful in ecommerce, you need to be proactive, not passive.

03/01/2009 - Web Sales Rising
Despite the recession, ONLINE RETAIL sales will likely keep climbing in 2009.

03/01/2009 - Warm Mouse Is Hot
The Warm Mouse is a product born to an instant market. It is the type of product every RETAILer wants to carry, because it is unlikely to stay on the shelf.

03/01/2009 - U.S. Ecommerce Comeback Seen by 2010
Ecommerce in the United States is expected to climb back to last year's levels by 2010 after experiencing slowing growth in 2009 due to the recession, a research group said recently.

03/01/2009 - SalesOne: Sharing Success With RETAILers
One way to describe Mark Hollis, President of SalesOne International, LLC, is a visionary with an excellent sense of timing, who makes many decisions by instinct.

03/01/2009 - Diverse Products Push Sales
Diverse products and categories can fill the bill for kiosk and cart vendors, as long as the items grab shoppers' attention. Two companies with products that could hardly be farther apart highlight the diverse possibilities.

02/01/2009 - Kiosks Combine Novelty & Utility
When a kiosk or cart vendor can obtain a line of merchandise or configure a mix of products that combine both novelty appeal and usefulness, he enhances the ability to succeed.

02/01/2009 - Hackers Attack RETAIL Sites
Hacker attacks against RETAIL sites soared in the last half of 2008, rising by 161 percent during the July to November period.

02/01/2009 - Growing Sales With Sunglasses
Sunglasses are among the highest profit RETAIL categories. What's more, they are far less seasonal than in the past. Just look at the celebrities who wear them winter and summer.

02/01/2009 - FTC Studies Minimum Price Rules
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it will hold a series of four to six workshops to gather information on the impact of a controversial court decision that makes it easier for manufacturers to set minimum prices.

02/01/2009 - Beating the Giant Chains
It is a challenging economic climate for RETAILers big and small.

01/01/2009 - RETAILing to Etailing
Independent RETAIL businesses still without a website are not alone. According to a recent study by research firm, Warrillow & Co., a whopping 59 percent of small businesses do not have a site yet.