Miami International Mart in Miami Gardens, FL brings together retail buyers and leading distributors of thousands of products from across the U.S. Held four times a year, the remaining 2014 show dates are April 6-8, June 22-24, and September 7-9. The first show in 2015 is scheduled for January 25-27.
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Big Mouth Toys designs, creates and produces one-of-a-kind humorous novelty toys and gag gifts. The company has more than 500 products, and is introducing 50 new and original items this spring.
In part two of our interview with Stacy Leistner, VP of Strategic Communications at The Toy Industry Association (TIA), he reveals trends in tech toys, provides a retail toy industry forecast, and a look at how toy sales stack up around the world.
Vapor World Expo is scheduled May 7-8 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. It is a must attend event for innovators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers that have a stake in the electronic cigarette industry.
Nearly everyone loves candy, whether it’s melt-in-your-mouth sweet or satisfyingly sour. From chocolate to jelly beans, the latest trend in candy is the color candy buffet, a fun new way for shoppers to buy candy by color to accessorize events, from birthday parties to weddings and beyond.
Smart Way Logistics is a third party logistics company, similar to a freight broker, serving customers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The firm specializes in LTL (less than truckload), volume and truckload, rail shipments and air service.
HempMedsPX™ brings natural, CBD-rich hemp oil products to market in a variety of popular forms. Products include their signature pure hemp oil dietary supplement, Real Scientific Hemp Oil™ (RSHO), a cold-pressed hemp oil with an abundance of natural cannabidiol (CBD).
Kabbage is an automated financial services platform that quickly supplies working capital to small and mid-size businesses. On average, from the time merchants land on Kabbage’s website until they have cash in their accounts, it takes seven minutes.
Vaping is on the rise, and many people are replacing traditional electronic cigarettes with personal vaporizers, a more advanced electronic cigarette. Inquiries with product suppliers by convenience store owners and distributors, and the general buzz at trade shows as early as September of 2013, indicate that traditional e-cigarettes are losing ground in the alternative smoking industry.
Indie retailers want to accept as many forms of payment as possible to better serve their customers, as well as to achieve maximum sales. Shoppers often prefer to pay with a credit card because they earn prized rewards points.