This section is for and about gift retailers. Each article is packed with useful information, some brought to you directly by the retailers themselves. Articles include Q & A's, new store openings and success stories about your fellow gift shop retailers.
Gift basket retailers sell many products in an amazing variety of containers. Find out how the retailers featured here got started in the business and what factors fuel their continued success.
These two specialty toy stores are enjoying great success. What's their secret?
Gift shop ownership comes in all stripes and colors. With Mother's Day around the corner, we look at flourishing gift shops around the country managed by mother-daughter teams.
Dual-use gift shops are all about capturing more profits from existing customers. But can two separate businesses thrive under one roof, or do they fester with sibling rivalry?
Carve out a space for stationery in your store and watch your profits roll in. GIFT SHOP profiles three retailers who enjoy success with stationery and the industry trade show that is the Mecca for all professionals in the field.
It was not long after Hurricane Katrina swept New Orleans that a French Quarter mainstay, Aunt Sally's Original Creole Pralines, reopened its doors. But nearly a year later, the shop continues to weather the storm as a lack of affordable housing, qualified staff and tourist dollars have sales sinking.
Between running a gift shop, launching an imprinted-products business, maintaining a website and helping others open their own gift shops, it would be understandable if retail entrepreneur Sylvia Killion experienced the occasional choppy waters. But these days it's all clear skies and smooth sailing at Sylvia's By The Sea.
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