Retail

On Friday, June 9, 1916 in New York City’s Herald Square, Harry C. Ives of the Ives Manufacturing Corporation called to order a meeting of 46 American toy manufacturers. Their…

The PGA Merchandise Show, today the world’s largest and most influential golf business event, had its informal beginnings in 1954, when a handful of golf merchandisers assembled in the PGA…

Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, may be far away from the sun-drenched beaches of Hawaii, Mexico, and the Caribbean, yet the island lifestyle has always been on…

“Our primary objective is to be able to create this wide gulf between our pricing and the competitor’s pricing,” says Bill Naylon, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of…

Co-founder Andrew Vagenas launched Pharmapacks with his four best friends in 2010. At the time, he, and one of his partners, owned a retail pharmacy in New York City, and…

ShoppersChoice.com is an online retailer of outdoor home and entertainment products including barbeque grills, grill accessories, gas logs and fireplaces, patio furniture, and other home, kitchen, and outdoor appliances, furniture,…

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world’s largest retail trade association. Its members include grocery, department, specialty, discount, catalog, and internet stores; independent retailers; and chain restaurants in the…

Since its formative days, television has been an advertising medium. Indeed, many of America’s earliest TV’s shows were created specifically by sponsors whose main goal was the selling of their…

Because every drop counts SCI Distribution was founded in 2002. The company specializes in wireless fleet and fuel management solutions for its clients in many different sectors: agriculture, transportation, road…

Adapting and expanding a niche market White Lake Marine has just celebrated its 60th year in operation, having opened in 1955 on beautiful White Lake in southeastern North Carolina. It…

Specializing in shallow draft bay fishing boats for over 60 years The Laguna Madre is a long and narrow backwater separating the mainland of southeast Texas on the Gulf of…

Customer satisfaction is the number one goal In days past, when you had to bring your car in for service, it wasn’t always a pleasant experience. Waiting rooms were not…

Gordy’s Marine a.k.a. Gordyworld, lures boaters to Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva As the story goes, one day in 1944, Gordy’s founder, Gordon Whowell, an automobile salesman from Chicago, agreed to take…