The Coronavirus pandemic is testing leadership on many fronts. Brand leaders in retail, especially food retail, banking, and the hospitality industries are struggling to maintain revenues in a dynamic and fluid ecosystem. Specifically, they are tasked with ensuring the safety and well-being of their employees and customers while maintaining sales revenues as demand increases. Online […]
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COVID-19 Trade Show Updates
At Independent Retailer, we are doing our best to compile up-to-date info you need during this trying time. Please see the list below for show cancellations and rescheduling. This list will be updated as more info comes in. Thank you MARCH ASD Market Week, — CANCELED. Next show August 2-5 Dallas Apparel & Accessories, — […]
Announcing the World’s Premier Preparedness Event – REDI Expo
ZJ Events, LLC, a New York based company and event organizer, has dramatically changed the course of their business in response to the coronavirus outbreak. In an effort to affect positive, global change, their team has envisioned a brand new event – one with the goal of educating the public on how to be prepared […]
Kabbage Launches Online Hub to Help Boost Sales for U.S. Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
On Wednesday, March 18, Kabbage Inc. launched www.helpsmallbusiness.com to support small businesses financially impacted by COVID-19. The initiative is a call-to-action across the U.S., enabling anyone to purchase an online gift certificate from participating small businesses to provide them with crucial financial support. Certificates can be redeemed in full after they are issued or in […]
Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting Trade Shows and Other Events
Between postponed and cancelled trade shows, retailers selling out of toilet paper and cleaning supplies, thousands stuck in quarantine, and simply not knowing what’s going to happen next, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is causing quite a bit of mayhem around the globe. The novel Coronavirus has touched over 100 different countries, infecting over 120,000 people to […]
7th Annual NoCo Hemp Expo Rescheduled for August
Organizers for the 7th Annual NoCo Hemp Expo are rescheduling this year’s three-day Investor Forum, Business Conference, Farm Symposium, and sold out Exposition Hall, out of concern for the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Originally scheduled for March 26-28, 2020, the trade show will now take place the weekend of August 6-8, 2020, in the same […]
Inspired Home Show Cancels Spring 2020 Event
by Derek Miller — A Message from the International Housewares Association Dear Home + Housewares Professional, By now, I am sure that you have heard that The Inspired Home Show 2020 has been cancelled due to the ongoing threat of Covid-19 (Coronavirus). Being a global event, the health risk of having our international community come […]
Four Ways Retailers are Feeling the Impact of the Coronavirus
by Kayla Matthews The new coronavirus, designated COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has already infected nearly 60,000 people in China, and spread to 24 countries around the globe, including Japan, France, Canada and the United States. In a short period of time, the virus has quickly become a hugely disruptive health crisis that’s […]