Wrap Yourself in Warmth with Yves Delorme's Fall-Winter 2024 sales promotion. From October 18th – November 3rd, receive a 20% discount off one item or a 25% discount off two or more items. Products Included in the offer: Comforters, Pillows, Duvet Covers, Shams, and Pillowcases.
Also starting Friday, October 18th and running until Monday, November 11th, Le Jacquard Francais is having a 20% discount on all table linen items including: tablecloths, runners, placemats, and napkins.
...
Read More
A grand floral arrangement in your entry sets the tone of elegance & festivity. Here we threw a paisley blanket over the table & used a large Berry & Thread hurricane vase filled mostly with greenery branches, accented with statement flowers. Then finished styling the table with leftover elements clustered into various vessels.
📖 As seen in our book, 'Together at the Table'
View Post
We're happy to see Tipton & Hurst promoting their placement on Shop Local's Leaderboard on Facebook:
.............................
"We’re beyond excited to share that we’ve broken into the Top 10 on ShopLocal.org by Bridge for September 2024! Our #9 ranking amongst over 1,400 independent boutiques is a testament to our wonderful brand partners, loyal customers and amazing staff... 💍💐"
I have exciting news: Members will be able to save up to 35% off their monthly, flat-rate subscription fee with us. That's essentially buy 2 months and receive the 3rd free.
We’ll give a member a discount for paying upfront for one, two, or three years. This is our best offer.
Please consider this a ‘save the date’ for the sale. Please find details below.
You can use your savings to grow your store in 2025, take a vacation (Paris or Patagonia?), and ...
Read More
This article, which will appear in the December/January 2025 issue of Tableware Today, explains the importance of wedding registries to indie stores.
Our e-commerce platform helps 1,500 indie stores sell $22 million a year. Perhaps surprising is that more than 90% of these orders are wedding registry gifts. Our stores offer tens of thousands of goods for sale online, with the lion’s share being wedding gifts. Why are wedding registry sales 90% of online sales while non-gift orders ...
Read More
It speaks volumes that the first line acquired by Maison3Amis after the purchase of DeVine Corp., a three-decade distributor of luxe European tableware, was Josephinenhütte, the five-year-old German-based maker of lightweight, thin-walled stemware and accessories. The Maison3Amis team (hereafter known as M3A) is helmed by two one-time Baccarat execs, Jim Shreve and Sally Burnside, who appreciate a nonpareil drinking glass, and Mark Brashear, who quickly recognized the allure of the brand. &...
Read More
Costa Nova’s Marrakesh was designed by famed French florist Christian Tortu, inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s Les Jardins de Majorelle, the couturier’s botanical garden in Marrakesh that features the warm tones of sandy walls, vibrant spice colors found in bustling markets, and the rich hues of traditional fabrics, a collection with a keen eye to sustainability and Moroccan mystique.
................................
This isn't Christian Tortu's first collection for ...
Read More
This issue marks my 40th year chronicling the tableware industry, the last 28 as the founder and editor of Tableware Today. Spend four decades in an industry and you see change: sometimes sweeping (lifestyle shifts/consolidations/e-commerce); sometimes specific (Covid/less entertaining at home/rising costs). On the other hand, four decades is just a blip in the life of many tableware producers. Our industry, really, is a contradiction in so many ways: a heritage category that must remain fresh, ...
Read More
This month we recognize and celebrate the achievements of women entrepreneurs and the contributions of women-owned businesses to the economy. As Ginger's Breadboys is a woman-owned small business we thought we shared some ways to celebrate National Women's Small Business Month.
Support local businesses: Patronize women-owned businesses in your area.
Write reviews: Share your experience on social media with a positive review of a woman-owned business you visited.
I'm happy to share the first column in an on-going series to appear in Tableware Today magazine. This article, which appears in the magazine's current October/November 2024 issue, explains our inspiration for the Leaderboard--a new tool to help retailers, brands, and sales reps. ..............
TOP OF THE CHARTS
LET'S LEAD TOGETHER by JASON SOLAREK
Money is tight for many indie retail shops. Owners often ask themselves: What brands and products
should I invest in to get the best ...
Read More
Citi Bike, a bike-sharing service in New York City, has a competition for those who help redistribute the network’s bikes. It displays the top helpers, called Bike Angels, on an online leaderboard. Citi Bike gives points, which can be redeemed for monetary credit, for participating. I found this system and their leaderboard inspiring because we, too, offer a leaderboard.
Our leaderboard (named Leaderboard) that tracks the best-performing wedding registry brands, retailers, ...
Read More
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote in the Dialogue Republic, “A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem.” This statement led to the phrase “Necessity is the mother of Invention." These words could very well describe Shop Local and how we came to exist. Over time, some have suggested the phrase could be tweaked to read “necessity is the mother of reinvention." This phrase also parallels Shop Local's ethos of supporting...
Read More
Great news: Tableware Today, the bi-monthly print magazine dedicated to our industry, will be publishing our Leaderboard results on the last page of each coming issue.
This article below will appear in the October/November 2024 issue of Tableware Today and explains our inspiration for the Leaderboard.