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Summer Show
June 21-25 New Dates
9:30 am-5:30 pm
TEMPORARY EXHIBITORS
YELLOW POD AND GALLERY RED 230For a complete list of temporary exhibitors, including the New England Artisan Gallery and Novia Scotia showcase:
» Click here (PDF) Daily Events EVERY MORNING DURING THE SHOW we offer free continental breakfast with luncheon services available and, of course, parking is always free! 
Take a Chance and "Spin-To-Win” on our new Prize Wheel. Earn a chance to spin the wheel for prizes including gift cards and other merchandise awards. Also drawings every hour!
“Lunch and Learn” Seminars
Business Resource Center
Suite 230 Red
12:00-1:00 pm
C.S. Wurzberger
» More info Credit Card Processing Seminars
Business Resource Center
Suite 230 Red
Mike Schaefer, VP of Sales at Payment Processing Consultants, Inc.
Bring a merchant service statement for a free savings analysis while shopping at the market. Since joining, he’s converted over 50 gift and home retailers saving many between $1,500 and $7,000/year in credit card processing fees. |
EVENTSSunday, June 22
Wine Tasting Event
5:30-7:00 pm
Center Café
Take a break and enjoy an evening at the Retailers and Rep Reception "Wine Tasting Event” and gourmet faire catered by Two Chefs are Better than One. Sunday, June 22 &
Monday, June 23
Locally Owned, Locally Operated: Using Your Small Shop Power to be Unique
9:30-10:30 am
Blue Seminar Room
Debbie Dusenberry, established Kansas City Retailer will present this seminar that focuses on practical and innovative ways to show you how to compete with Big Box stores and why customers would rather spend their money with you. Learn about smart advertising choices, display techniques, and special events to grow your business. Please call 800.435.2775 to RSVP.
Since 2000, Kansas City retailer Debbie Dusenberry has established her store, Curious Sofa, among the top small retailers in the US. Customers from across the country have made their way to her store to attend events and see the latest in her distinctive shop style. Known for her inspirational displays and unorthodox retail methods, Debbie's website (curioussofa.com) and blogs are among fan favorites for artistic inspiration (curioussofa.blogspot.com) and business advice (shopowner.blogspot.com). Debbie's talents and influence aren't going unnoticed. National magazines and trade publications have featured her store and home since 2001. Last year she was asked to join the national retail advisory board for the Gift and Home Trade Association. Along with her daily shop operations and speaking engagements, she is currently working as a consultant and designer for Demdaco to launch a new line of home products for 2009. Monday, June 23
Dr. Katherine Albrecht
5:30-6:30 pm
Blue Seminar Room
 Special guest speaker Dr. Katherine Albrecht, director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization she founded in 1999 to advocate free-market, consumer-based solutions to the problem of retail privacy invasion. Executive Technology Magazine has called Katherine "perhaps the country's single most vocal privacy advocate" and Wired magazine calls her the "Erin Brockovich" of RFID". Her success exposing corporate misdeeds has earned her accolades from Advertising Age and Business Week and caused pundits to label her a PR genius. Tuesday, June 24
Floral Design Show
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Café Annex
Floral design show by Rick Talbot. NH native, Rick Talbot has been in the floral industry since 1985. He's inspired many florists all over the country, doing floral design shows and seminars and he also is a past president for Teleflora, NH and VT unit. Rick’s floral designs have won him numerous awards, including the Design America Contest, where he placed first in the region. His shop Cobblestone Design Company in Concord NH, was named best florist in NH by New Hampshire Magazine. |
