Jim Shreve made Baccarat hip. Now, he and his longtime partner, Mark Brashear, along with Sally Burnside, the former Baccarat sales V.P., intend to do the same for DeVine Corp., the 32-year-old distributor of elite European brands. You're invited to the opening!
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Congrats to you all. This is very exciting. Tim, we’ve known each other since before you started DeVine Corp., 32 years ago. You’ve been looking for the right opportunity to retire. TIM ...
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A McKinsey study found that the average life span of companies listed on the S&P 500 was 61 years in 1958; today, it’s less than 18 years. McKinsey believes that by 2027, 75% of S&P 500 companies will have disappeared. New businesses have an 81% chance of surviving their first year; in two years, a little less than 70% of businesses are still standing. Only 25% make it to 15 years or more. There’s a clear long-term trend of declining corporate longevity, with this figure ...
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We'll be at the AmericasMart show Wednesday, January 17 – Friday, January 19, 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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This is to advise that we will continue to offer the FUSAIN pattern in 5 piece place settings, but will discontinue all other items as current quantities are sold off. The new ELITE 4 pc. Hostess Set will replace the current Fusain hostess set, and we will offer both in open stock and in a set.
The updated price lists have been uploaded to the site.
Our friends at Royal Crown Derby have shared images from the Queen's Funeral with us via the BBC website. The photos can be found by using the link below.
Bridge has teamed up with 23 premium brands to offer an exciting promotion. A retailer can place an order at the Atlanta show and get $200 off its wholesale order. The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered. With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show. The store's Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores can quickly...
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Royal Crown Derby is pleased to share a video of the BBC News feature yesterday evening. This video shows a small insight into their premium quality commemoratives, handcraft techniques and their relationship with royalty across the globe.
DeVine Corp is currently experiencing a phone and internet outage since 12:35pm. We hope to be operational soon. We will keep you up to date and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.
We are finishing our transition to our new Netsuite system starting today and through most of next week. We will likely not resume shipping until next Thursday or Friday. Thank you for your patience during the transition.
Couzon 2022 New Introductions are now available on the site. There are four new giftboxed steak knife sets. They are now available to order, and we should receive our first stock in March.
The factory that supplies the rim-shaped plates to Anna Weatherley is closing due to Covid protocols. Therefore, the following patterns are now discontinued:
•Butterfly Collection
•Garland
•Peony Pink
•Summer Garden
•Woodland Collection
The limited stock that we do have available in these patterns has moved to the Specials Page on the website.
Royal Crown Derby is delighted to share their latest introduction, the Old Imari Solid Gold Band Vardo. Highly sought after amongst SGB collectors, this remarkable piece brings an iconic part of the travelling history to life.
Showcasing the remarkable features of the Iconic Romani Wagon, Royal Crown Derby’s Old Imari Solid Gold Band Vardo brings history into the home. Handcrafted by highly skilled artisans, this piece incorporates the intricately ...
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As you may already know, production of stainless steel flatware has perhaps been the most impacted business in tableware during the Covid crisis. This is where we stand with Couzon: our factory that produces the "U.S. only" patterns of Le Perle, Lyrique and Consul was closed for most of the summer due to Covid issues. They are just now getting back up and running and slowly at best. Orders that we placed over the summer we will not see until May of ...
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We have worked out an arrangement with the factory to keep Fusain as an active pattern. However, due to ongoing manufacturing issues related to Covid, we will not be back in stock until early next year.
We will keep you posted.