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October 1, 2010

Gloves or Mittens Sales in US: 2007 to 2009

Filed under: Shopping — Tags: , — Winson @ 10:19 AM

A glove is a garment used to cover hand. For each finger gloves have separate opening or coverings for each finger and for the thumb. Fingerless gloves have an opening, but no covering sheath for each finger. Gauntlets are fingerless gloves with one large opening instead of individual openings for each finger. Entire hand is covered by Mittens but these don’t have separate finger openings or sheaths. Though mittens and gloves are made with same material, but mittens are warmer than gloves because fingers can maintain their warmth better when they are together.

Gloves are the part of dress accessories. $6 is the average unit sale price. Knit gloves are better than leather and fabric glove styles. Shiny and space dyed yarns and other novelty yarns are popular knit gloves.

A niche fashion item is short leather driving and riding gloves. 35 percent of the sales done by age group 35 to 54 of customers. 44 percent of the sales of gloves were for the gifts for others. Sales of gloves in 2007 were 383.4 million dollars and in 2008 were 462.7 million dollars and 448 million dollars in 2009.

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Small Businesses are not Utilizing Social Media for Marketing: Citibank

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , , , — Winson @ 9:12 AM

According to a latest survey by Citibank, many of the small businesses are not utilizing even the basic online tools which are readily available and which would help them grow their businesses despite of a lot of buzz around social media.

  • Around 63 percent of the small business respondents expressed that word of mouth publicity is the best way to increase their business market. They also said that it helps them in finding new customers. Many of the small businesses do not consider marketing through social media as a word-of-mouth channel.
  • The social media sites like Face book, LinkedIn and Twitter are not being used by 81 percent of the respondents.
  • 37 percent of them are not using websites in order to expand their small businesses.
  • Around 84 percent of the small businesses are not selling their products through online service.
  • Almost 62 percent are not utilizing email for marketing their products.
  • More than 47 percent of them perceive that these sites are not of any value for their businesses.
  • 21 percent think that the social media sites are more for personal use than for business.
  • 18 percent of them expressed that they do not know much about how the social media helps in expanding their business and how to utilize it to maximum.

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September 27, 2010

U.S. Fashion Accessories Market and Its Highlights

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 5:13 AM

Accessories are the decorative items which add extra beauty to the clothing, like hats, shoes, handbags etc. According to the current trends, the fashion market has been changing. Generally, youth follow different trends and fashions of the market. The fashion market is associated with the tastes of the people. The fashion may be differ according to the age and sex.

Coming to the US fashion accessories, it has been enhancing its paths as many companies are prevailing in the markets. There is a huge competition among different retailers and shopkeepers who are selling the Fashion accessories. Not only by walking in to the store and the online shopping has been increasing as the internet being the fastest media for purchasing the goods. Even some of the online stores are providing discounts and they even want to reduce the prices.

The women’s and girl’s market includes handbags, jewelry, cold/rain weather accessories, footwear, eye wear etc. Coming to the men’s jewelry accessories, they include socks, watches, belts, small leather goods etc.

According to the Packaged Facts research 2009, these are some of the key trends of the US Fashion Accessories Market. They are

  • Hand bags market is about one- third of the total market.
  • Digital gadgets replace the Fashion accessories.
  • The growth is there in the categories of the ties, neck wear.
  • Fashion Accessories growth increased by $20.2.
  • The ladies are using handbags, as the symbol of status. There is a growth in the sales by 10% when compared to 2008.
  • The main accessory are increasing the market trends is the clothing accessory.
  • The market size of fashion jewelry is $9.0 billion and the hand bags is $7.64 billions when women’s accessory segments were considered.
  • When it comes to men’s segment the socks and the sunglasses will have a market size of $2.2 billions and $1.15 billions respectively.
  • The sales are more in the departmental stores when compared to the retail sales.

But apart from all of these, luxuries market is going to decrease.

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September 25, 2010

Small Businesses Exports Increase Opportunities for Growth

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 3:16 AM

There was a growth in exports and services in US. There was a increase of 16.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010. This is the result of the initiative that was announced by President Obama. This initiative is expected to double exports of United States and create 2 million jobs in US in the next few years.

But when closely observed, only 1 percent of U.S. small businesses currently export though there is huge demand for high-quality, American-made products. To show the entrepreneurs that how simple exporting is, UPS is working with federal agencies.

The export of small businesses creates a door way for many opportunities can be demonstrated by taking the example of Dan Perkins at Couch Guitar Straps. He started exporting accidentally when foreign customers began to request for his products. He was quickly enough to learned that foreign sales play a key part in small businesses.

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September 24, 2010

Other Factors Hindering the Growth of Small Businesses

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 10:40 AM

Over the past three decades during every recession, the small businesses who had less than 100 employees came forward and began hiring. Small businesses were the ones who pulled the country from the entangle.

Not only the the factor of tight credit is hindering the growth of small businesses as per Obama administration and others, there are also few other factors are also hindering the hiring process in small businesses.

There is a drastic drop in the creation of small businesses. The destruction of real estate market. There is much uncertainty in the point of view of economic conditions in the country.

Devastating levels of unemployment in that country this time than in the previous downturns. It is appearing to be bound near 10 percent.

Due to the depression in real estate market, there is much impact on the small businesses. Real estate was the vital force for the small firms. The real estate holdings have often been generators for the profits and they also provided collateral for the new machinery or other expansions.

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