Featured News See You in Dallas in June 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - Friday, June 21, 2024
Location: Dallas Market Center
We'll be at the Dallas show Wednesday, June 19 – Friday, July 21, 2024. We'd love to meet with you and hear about your business.
Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for sales reps and brands. Please share these materials with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:
A flyer showing featured Brand Syncing partners. We have 114 partner brands. You'll likely see your brand on this sheet.&
We'll be at the Dallas Market Center show Wednesday, January 10 - Friday, January 12, 2024. We'd love to meet with you and hear about your business and what you're seeing.
Trade Show Materials
We put together the following materials for sales reps and brands. Please share these materials with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:
1. Explanation Materials
A flyer showing featured Brand Syncing partners. We have 115+ partner brands. You'll likely see
How we can honor those that came before us in the retail industry.
March 2, 2023
The founder of Juan Pollo Chicken, Albert Okura, passed away last week at the age of 71. Mr. Okura envisioned Juan Pollo, a fast food chain with 25 locations in Southern California, as a household name that would someday sell the most chicken in the world. He believed in this so much that he bought the site of the original McDonald’s restaurant, located in San Bernardino, CA, in 1998—not to turn it into a Juan Pollo restaurant but rather into a museum to honor his fast food industry....
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We'll be there Wednesday, June 21 – Friday, June 23, 2023.
I'm happy to meet with you. To arrange a meeting, please email: [email protected].
Trade Show Materials:
We have put together the following materials for sales reps and brands. Please share these materials with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:
The ARTS award ceremony last night had four finalists for best Tabletop brand: Beatriz Ball, Casafina, Caskata, and LSA. I was pleased that three of the nominated brands use Bridge’s Product Syncing service (Beatriz Ball, Casafina, and LSA).
Congrats to the winner Beatriz Ball 🥳
I’m also pleased to share that our client Barbara Stewart Interiors in Bowling Green Kentucky was nominated for best Design Studio. Congrats to the owner Susan Hoechner.
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The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect. List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)
I'd add to List's advice this simple maxim: show ...
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We had a great show in Dallas. I’d like to thank the Dallas Market Center, our 100 brand partners, and our hardworking retailers that make it all possible. A special thank you to:
- Laura May at the Ivy House
- Meg Duncan at Lamont
- Ari Lowenstein at MarketTime
- Adam Sigel at Savannah Bee
- Andy Bjork at Ivystone
- Neil Peters at Carmel Ceramica
- Diana Duffy at Skyros Designs
- Rita at Casafina Living
- Sonny Melder
- Nicole and Luis at Pieces of Eight
- Angela ...
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While I was down in Dallas evangelizing about Bridge, the Dallas Market Center’s software provider and sister company (called MarketTime) invited me to their offices for a meeting. The goal of the meeting was to explore teaming up to help brands and retailers speed products to market, as well as get a leg up on the competition.
The Dallas Mart consists of two primary buildings, each with atriums and many floors each. I like the Dallas show because of the abundance of ...
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Fresh, light and summery. Your farmer`s market bounty for the simplest and the most natural ingredients served in this woven chic glass bowl. Includes a small 2 Qt glass insert. Also available in 4Qt. Visit us at Ryan & Associates @DallasMarket Suite 2630
Zola's slowdown is good news for indie stores--but Zola will likely be back. While it is over-leveraged with venture capital and over-valued, the wedding registry business will rebound next year.
Indie stores are not the only ones to get a reprieve: market buildings were playing defense against Faire, the wholesale ...
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January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020
Thank you Beatriz Ball for sharing the Bridge love!
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January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020
We're showing in Dallas Market Center TM2402 this week! Stop by for show specials and to see the newest line!
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January 6, 2020
January 6, 2020
Join Bridge in Dallas this week! We're there Thursday, January 9th and Friday, January 10th.