A must that should be featured in your store is gift items. Whether you are planning for the holidays or year round, finding the right gift items should be on your mind constantly. Customers expect to walk into your store and find great gift items that are on trend for the season and unique. They want to find something that they wouldn’t ordinarily find anywhere else, but at your store. So, FGmarket is here to give you great gift ideas for women to feature in your store for this great year!

Handcrafted Jewelry – What woman doesn’t love jewelry? Yes, they may have different styles from one another, but most every woman out there loves to add a little something extra to their outfit. Jewelry can add that extra something that an outfit needs. Plus, it can be passed down from generations to generations as a family heirloom. It is truly a special piece to give as a gift.

A company providing lovely handcrafted jewelry that your customers will absolutely adore is Handmade Expressions.This wholesale promotes fair trade products, which promotes giving a chance to local artisans, farmers and workers around the world.

Beautiful coin necklaces, colorful beaded necklaces, gorgeous hand-painted bangles, wired rings and matching jewelry sets will make truly amazing gifts. Everyone will love them! The great thing about this jewelry is that it’s handcrafted, which means nothing is truly the same. Women love to stand out, have something that represents their style and have something truly unique.

Relaxing Products -Everyone leaves busy lives, therefore, offer gift items that will provide a relaxing and soothing moment that they can achieve during the day. A full day of work and then having to come home to more work most nights makes for a stressful week.

Therefore, offer soothing spa products that women can enjoy for an hour out of their day. Fragrant body lotion, relaxing bath salts and soothing candles are just the items they will need after a long, stressful day.

Greenleaf Incorp. offers all the personal care products that will provide a relaxing evening. Fragrances such as bamboos and blossoms, classic linen, garden breeze, lavender and orange and honey are just some of the amazing scents that are offering in their products.

Soothing shower gels, salts, creams, scrubs, lotion and linen sprays all are of great quality and smell amazingly good. Women will enjoy a long hot bubble bath and will get to refresh themselves after a long work week or day. Amazing gifts for anytime of the year.

Personalized Items – Who doesn’t love getting personalized items? Having adorable kitchen items, bags or even clothing are just an added accessory to their wardrobe and home accents.

Plus, giving personalized products as a gift makes it that much more special. It’s like they truly thought about that special someone. Going to the effort of personalizing the colors, theme and even putting their name on an item will show how they much someone truly cares about that person.

Sarahjanes wants to provide just this for your store. They offer a variety of items that can be monogrammed and that come in different styles and colors. What will really stand out to the ladies? Adorable bags and aprons will be the gift to give at every season. Your customers won’t go wrong with these gift items. An adorable pink and white Continue reading “2011 Gift Trends For Women” »

Something that every store should have are home accents. Why? Customers love them. They love to provide their home with something new and unique for each season. And if not, housewares make wonderful gifts too. However, your customers want something that’s one-of-a-kind. A product that will make their home stand out from the rest. So when finding something unique for your customers, visit Accent Decor Inc. They offer beautiful housewares that will make a statement in any home.

Accent Decor Inc strives to deliver their customers quality products that are up-to-date on the latest trends. They are always on the search for new products to add to their ever evolving collection. Only wanting to offer the best to you and your customers. Their product line contains elegant home decor, such as:

• Clear Glass Home Accents
• Colored Glass Home Accents
• Candle holders
• Metal, Glass, Iron & Natural Vases
• Topiarys
• Lanterns

All of these products will make great home accents. One of their black, over-sized vases will look great in a modern home. Along with their mercury finished hourglass shaped vases filled with beautiful fillers to make a great tablescape. These home accents would look beautiful.

Your customers will be able to place these items as tabletop accents, fireplace mantels or their kitchen. They’ll absolutely find something that is suitable for any and every room in their home. Customers will be thrilled that these items are in your store.

These all sound great! However, use them to your advantage too. Accent Decor Inc offers great vases along with fillers and beautiful wire. Create a gorgeous centerpiece using these items. Your customers will love featuring your innovative designs using these beautiful products as tabletop accents. Everyone will find a variety of uses for these gorgeous products.

When searching for unique decor for your store, visiting Accent Decor Inc is an absolute must. Their variety of beautiful glassware, tabletop accents and home decor will have any store, along with any home, looking flawless.

Do you want something truly unique to offer your customers? You’re always on the hunt to offer them something they’ll find no where else, but in your store. Something that you may want to start planning for now is wedding season. With weddings, trends are always changing and brides are always looking for something one-of-a-kind. Well, offer them just that with Good Wish Umbrella.This wholesale company offers something truly unique that brides and hostesses will absolutely love!

Good Wish Umbrella offers a unique product. An umbrella. You’re probably thinking, an umbrella? However, this product is unique. It’s an umbrella for all those keepsakes bows that your customers may receive at a bridal shower, baby shower or wedding.

They came up with this unique idea when someone asked for a paper plate and some tape to put the bows in. There has got to be something better out there than a paper plate for bows. So the invention of the wedding umbrella was created. A beautiful keepsake that your customers will be able to keep with them for a lifetime.

A Special Keepsake

Good Wish Umbrella provides umbrellas for baby showers, bridal showers and weddings. They come in pastel pinks, blues, yellows and white. Suitable for a boy, girl or your customer’s wedding colors. The umbrella features little slots and clips that will securely hold the bows in place. Just slide the bow in and clip. It’s that simple. Plus, it makes a fabulous decoration. Your customers will love the fact that they won’t have to wrestle with tape, hole punches or stapling just to get a bow on a plate or piece of paper. It adds a unique touch to all the party supplies in your store.

Center Of Attention

Not only do they make these umbrellas for a memorable wedding and baby keepsakes, but they also offer them as a centerpiece. A beautiful umbrella with ribbons, bows and charms. Oh my. How lovely do these sound? If your customers are hosting a baby shower, this umbrella is a must. An adorable pink umbrella featuring a miniature dresser and baby crib is a must for a little girl. How about a blue and green carousel for a little boy? Too cute and the parents will love using this item for a keepsake for the baby.

If your customers are planning a wedding shower or is the bride-to-be, these umbrellas will be a must have for their wedding supplies. Gorgeous umbrellas in various colors adorned with feathers, tulle and ribbon. They all sound so amazingly beautiful. Your customers will have something eye-popping on their tables.

Good Wish Umbrella offers the unique bow holder, but also a signature umbrella. The guest signature keepsake umbrella features lots of beautiful ribbon hanging from the umbrella. Each ribbon is for a guest to sign their name to and Continue reading “Create Good Memories With Good Wish Umbrella” »

As 2010 comes to a close, you need to get a game plan for 2011.

To get started, grab your 2011 calender and make a note of all the gift-giving holidays. Most calendars come with the standard US holidays, so you may need to research some of the non-standard holidays like Friendship Day. A search on Bing, Yahoo or Google can help you find these holidays.

Why Are Non-standard Holidays Important For Gifts Sales?

As a shop owner, you need sales throughout the year, not just around Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Striving to be more than just a once or twice a year gift shop will increase sales and stabilize your bottom line.

So How Do You Become An Every Occasion Gift Store?

By marketing gifts that are appropriate for any local holidays or special occasions, such as home comings, festivals, school events or community affairs. Don’t forget the odd special occasion like National Oatmeal Month Continue reading “What The Future Holds For Gift Shop Sales In 2011” »

Looking for reliable, top quality natural, dried or preserved elements for your floral designs or as accents for your home decor line? Look no further than Dried Naturals, your one-stop for all natural dried flowers, grasses, moss and other preserved foliage.

When you purchase wholesale floral accessories from Dried Naturals, you will receive a natural, often hand made, product at a reasonable price. Each product is produced to provide you with the elements needed to create one-of-a-kind designs and home accent pieces.

What can you find at Dried Naturals? The following list is just a small example of what they have to offer:

• Floral Greenery
  

  Straw and Grapevine Wreaths
• Grapevine Wreaths, Baskets and Garland
• Camphor Vine and Wreaths
• Mosses
• Lichens
• Branches
• Straw Wreaths

These unique Dried Natruals products will help you add a special touch to any floral arrangement, holiday wreath or add a unique accent to many home decor items. For example, you can use one of their straw wreaths as a blank canvas in which the addition of vibrant orange flowers and rustic branches creates the quintessential Fall look. This stunning piece will make your store or customer’s home stand out above the rest.

Add a touch of greenery to one of Dried Naturals’ grapevine baskets for a floral arrangement suitable for any occasion! These wholesale baskets also add that country living style to any decor. Add a touch of elegance to one of Dried Naturals grapevine wreaths with greenery and a silk ribbon to create the perfect touch for any front door.

Do you assemble your own gift baskets? Dried Naturals’ baskets are the perfect foundation for your customized holiday gift baskets. Think of the gift basket possibilities, when you combine Dried Naturals’ baskets and the Continue reading “Fill Your Creative Needs with Dried Naturals” »

Are you seeking unique wholesale glassware and barware that exude class and elegance? If so, The Georgia Marketing Group (GMG) offers handmade glassware created with rich and exquisite designs.  Their unique collection of colorful vases, crystal stemware, quality barware and more will complete your product line-up just in time for summer wedding showers!

The Perfect Wedding Shower Gifts

When you carry GMG products, all eyes will be drawn to the glimmering vases, sparkling crystal goblets, and luxurious barware displayed in your store.

Their elegant handmade creations are so beautiful customers won’t be able to resist. But more than beauty, customers will be impressed by the fine quality of the home accents and serving pieces.

Wedding season is among us. With numerous showers and parties to attend, custom glassware and home accents are the ideal gift for any newly-wed! In addition to home accents, the array of intricately designed custom pieces from GMG are also perfect for house-warming, birthday and special occasion gifts.

Their designs come in a variety of styles, from simple and sophisticated, to colorful works of art, and even elaborate custom pieces. Customers purchasing these items may even be enticed to take some home for themselves!

Need More Reasons Why You Should Buy From GMG

For 17 years, The Georgia Marketing Group has built their reputation upon distinction glassware with superior quality.  They use only skilled Romanian artisans who specialize in hand crafting beautiful glass creations.

Understanding  their customers may desire one-of-a-kind pieces, GMG offers client the opportunity to work with Continue reading “Unique Glassware: A Luxury That Is Within Reach.” »

Hebert Honey provides delicious and nutritious bee products to retailers and consumers alike.  With a staff of trained bee experts, Hebert Honey provides an inside look into homemade bee products!

Founded in 1990 as a local bee farm, Herbert Honey has grown into company that serves retailers nationwide with quality bee products.  With quality customer service tailored to your needs, Hebert Honey provides wholesale products with no minimum order requirement.

Among their amazing wholesale bee products are a plethora of options!

• Hebert Honey
• Hebert Bee Pollen
• Hebert Handmade Castile Soaps
• Hebert Pet Balm
• Hebert Beeswax Hand Cream
• Hebert Beeswax Body Cream
• Hebert Beeswax Lip Balm
• And so much more!

Hebert Honey even offers generous solid beeswax blocks that are cleaned and filtered to perfection!

With these great bee products, you are sure to provide exceptional wholesale personal care products to your client base while introducing a new unique product to your inventory. There Continue reading “Hebert Honey: What’s Buzzin’ In The Bee Yard?!” »

Are pet products recession-proof? In 2009 American households spent an estimated $45 billion on their pets, despite a tough economy. What is the driving factor behind this market? Could it be that roughly 6 out of 10 households have a pet? Or could it be the majority of pet owners view their pets as a member of the family?

The desire to spoil a pet that provides unconditional love is a strong motivation when it comes to consumers parting with their money. Given all this,  it appears pet products have the ability to weather a tough economic storm.

Think about it:  Even in these economic times people continue to spend money on their pets. A leading box-mart pet store boasted a six percent increase in sales, amid U.S. economic struggles. Such a large increase when the economy is in strife clearly shows that pet products may be recession-proof.

What does that mean for you?
Maybe now is the time to collar the pet product market. Where do you begin? The majority of pets are dogs and cats, and as a result, most of the pet products purchased are for dogs and cats. But, what else do you need to know to come out ahead of the pack?

Who’s Buying  For Their Pets?

Research has shown that baby boomers and empty nesters are the most common purchasers of pet products. Boomers love to dote on their pets, which, in turn, creates a need and a opportunity for dog accessories, cat toys, pet clothing and other pet-oriented products.

Empty-nesters with stable, disposable incomes are buying upscale collars, dogs beds and even doggie pools.Young professionals who are delaying the start of a family and opting for raising a pet are also jumping on the pet accessory bandwagon. A versatile customer base from all segments of life is what makes pet products a tremendous sales opportunity.

Selling Pet Products

As a retailer, what sales strategy should you take when about selling pet products? You need a clear starting point, whether expanding the pet products you offer or adding them to your existing product mix.  Take stock of what you already have and how pet products relate to your existing merchandise.

Do you offer gourmet foods? Gourmet pet foods maybe the perfect way to dive into the pet industry. If you carry jewelry, try adding dog or cat-inspired jewelry and upscale leashes and collars. New products are best introduced when you associate it with a product you already sell.

When you take time to work new products into your sales mix, you will have a greater success rate. One of the biggest mistakes a retailer can make is adding a product that is too different from their normal product mix.

Think about it:  It is far easier to sell a customer a dogie tee shirt, if they normally buy your line of human tees. The combining of human tees with dog tees is not at all far fetched.

The tee shirt example is just one example of how “cross selling” can help you integrate pet products into your store. “Cross selling” is an easy marketing tool that any shop can utilize. Just remember items like jewelry can lead to Continue reading “Recession-Proof Pet Products” »

Show Off Your Stylish Pooch

Tired of your pug wearing your rhinestone tee?  Maybe she needs her own rhinestone fitted tee. After all, if fashion is important to you, why wouldn’t it be important to your dog?  Where can the fashion forward pooch find the couture they desire?

Although there are many wholesalers of pet clothing, Dog In The Closet (DITC) is the fashionista pet’s dream shop. Like people, dogs come in all sizes. Providing a range of dog tee sizes for the tiniest pup to the largest dog, Dog In The Closet is the place for fashion-loving pooches.

Tops aren’t the only pieces of clothing that make a fashion statement. Denim skirts for dogs are the most adorable pet clothing item.  Any dog who pairs a denim skirt with a harness vest is sure to be the next top dog on the block.

Not only are DITC’s harness vests functional and fashionable, they were voted one of the Pet Style News top ten editor choice winners in 2009.  Pet Style picked the harness because “A unique twist lock prevents unwanted escapes when walking and serves as a connector for leashes. What differentiates this look from the other sturdy harnesses with interesting engineering is its style.” A fashion piece with functionality. What more could you ask for in a dog accessory?

Functionality is a major component of  Dog In The Closet pet clothing. In fact, their coats are made of denim with silk appliqués or 100% Italian wool to keep wearers warm during a walk around the block.

Created with attention to detail and sturdy material all with a touch of flair, dog clothing from Dog In The Closest will delight any well-dressed pup and owner. With so many dog clothing options like dresses, tee, skirts and harness vests, you dog will need a closet of their own.

Dog In The closet can be found in local retail stores or online. DITC can help Continue reading “Don’t Keep Your Fashionable Dog In The Closet!” »

From gourmet chefs to everyday foodies, everyone is raving about Dry Spice™ canisters. These spice canisters keep moisture out and flavor in. When it comes to preserving spices and keeping them fresh, Dry Spice™ canisters are a dream come true.

Ever turn the spice container to sprinkle a dash and a clump falls out instead? Clumping, caking and reduced intensity of flavor and aroma are all results of moisture problems within the spice container.

Dry Spice™ canisters prevent this foodie faux-pas for up to one year. Dry Spice™ canisters treat up to 5 ounces of dry spices — and KEEP them dry. No caking. No clumping. No worries.

Cyclists, hikers, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts will love how mess-free and convenient these spice canisters are. They make cooking outdoors a breeze! Boaters and yachtsmen also enjoy how the Dry Spice™ canisters prevent the moist sea air from seeping into their spices. Professional chefs and bakers can’t get enough of Dry Spice™ canisters. They are everyone’s spice solution!

The magic of Dry Spice™ canisters is silica gel. The canister itself contains one gram of silica gel which draws moisture away from the air inside of the canister and prevents any moisture from making its way inside. Silica gel in this form has been proven non-toxic, non-flammable, non-reactive and stable with ordinary use, such as in Dry Spice™ canisters. The FDA has approved Dry Spice™ canisters for regular use in the prevention of moisture build-up and spice storage.

As an added benefit to chefs of all types, even the labels on Dry Spice™ canisters are eco friendly and safe. Traditional printing methods are thrown out the window in favor of ONLY the use of organic dyes on recycled paper. Dry Spice™ goes the extra mile to ensure the flavor, quality and safety Continue reading “How Do You Keep Your Dried Spices Dry?” »