Retail Update

December 11, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Red Wing, Minn. -- Apropos Home, owned by Cecily Disana, opened at 311 Bush St., selling new and antique furnishings and high-end consignment pieces.

Enid, Okla. -- Hobby Lobby is being remodeled, adding 9,000 square feet, and increasing its inventory of home accents, wall decor and ceramics.

Oklahoma City, Okla. -- Adam and Brittany Branscum are opening BD Home, a home furnishings and gift shop.

Columbia, S.C. -- Local designers Anna Kemper and Marnie Clayton opened MACK Home, a furniture, home accents,...Read More

December 8, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

More than half of retailers are using social media in their marketing efforts this season, according to a new BDO Seidman survey. Seventy-six percent (76%) of those retailers are using Facebook, 50% are on Twitter, 14% are on MySpace and 14% are on YouTube. For more info, read Natalie Zmuda and Kunur Patel's story in AdAge. Zmuda and Patel also take a look at what some of the bigger guys are doing with social media, and what is and isn't working. 

THEN, if you're ready to take it a step further, read Lisa Barone's "Stealthy Tools for Retailers" in this month's Retail Update column. Lisa, a social networking and online marketing expert, shares tips on how to use social networking tools to spy on the competition... and find out who's being naughty or nice.

December 7, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

December 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The San Gines Ceramics Company unveiled this week, for the first time, the work done to date on what is being called “the largest ceramic tile mural in the world.” San Gines, one of the newer incarnations of a ceramics tradition that, for generations, has produced crockery, tableware, architectural ornamentation and decorative accessories in central Spain, was commissioned by the Government of Algeria to produce the mural for the exterior of a new convention center in the city of Oran.

When completed, the mural of approximately 55,000 hand-p...Read More

December 2, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Old Time Pottery’s Holden Road location here in Greensboro is among the discount retailer’s eight store locations that are closing under the company’s reorganization plan following its August bankruptcy filing. The sale begins Thursday, Dec. 3 and will be managed by Hudson Capital Partners, LLC. Old Time Pottery’s other 29 locations will remain open and operate as usual.

In a sale that is expected to last about eight weeks, $15.5 million in inventory will be liquidated, including glassware, dinnerware, framed art, linens, rugs, craft supplies, seasonal decorations, mirrors, wall décor, lamps, candles, silk plants and home accents.

The liquidation sale will take place a...Read More