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By Don Browne The City of Milwaukee now has a $100,000 fund to provide grants and forgivable loans to retailers and property owners for stores that open on Wisconsin Avenue in the heart of the downtown district. Thanks to a plan approved by the Common Council late last spring, the program is funded with $75,000 [...]
OFFPRICE was pleased to draw 2 winning stores for our TASTE-NY Hotel Giveaway – Spry Girls of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Indian Summer Boutique of New Buffalo, Michigan. In our Buyer Spotlight, the Spry Girls – cousins Lisa and Nancee, and Elise Mauro of Indian Summer share their experiences from their New York trip last [...]
Brooklyn native Jerry Duitz of JDM Green Town was kind enough to share with us some very cool momentos from his collection of autographed Brooklyn Dodger pics. Look for the album in the print version of our magazine. On June 1st, JDM Merchandise Group Ltd. and Green Town LLC merged their 100% scrubs companies. Both [...]
Mizrahi-Gardner of Los Angeles is a leader in the off price tee shirt business. While the company has been around since 1985, they didn’t start focusing heavily on tee-shirts until 5 years ago, when they established a relationship with an apparel company with a unique state of the art creative department. Since then, buyers have [...]
Alliance Wholesale (Booth #207 at A TASTE OF OFFPRICE – NY) of New York is the dominant player in the men’s off price market. 75% of their inventory is men’s branded and non-branded casual and dress wear. They even carry men’s branded hats. While they also deal in ladies’ swimwear and missy’s sportswear, as well [...]
Since 1993, Jonathan K of Los Angeles (Booth #213 at A TASTE OF OFFPRICE – NY) has been serving the retail trade with branded, generic and private label goods for all categories of men’s, women’s and childrens. They specialize in missys, juniors, maternity, plus and sleepwear. What began as a 1-man operation 17 years ago [...]
Ben Maccabee started McQueen’s Wholesale in March 24, 2008. He pitched McQueen’s as a “new company with a lot of experience.” After working with his brother Avi Kobi at Nationwide Wholesale for 10 years, he had the confidence to start his own business with its own unique concept. “I wanted to McQueens to be different [...]
Boulevard (Booth #1133) of Los Angeles carry Boy’s 4-7, Girls 4-6, Maternity, Men’s, Outerwear, Plus and women’s , and specialize in fashion jeans, women’s tops and wholesale brand names. They have been around approximately the same time as the Off Price Show (actually, Boulevard has a 1-year edge on us with a 1994 opening), and [...]
Sy Syms, founder and chairman of the apparel chain SYMS Corp., died on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in New York City, from heart failure. Mr. Syms founded his business in New York’s financial district in 1959, and was the first retailer to sell off-price men’s clothing. He created the well-known slogan, “An educated consumer is [...]
How did you get into the business? “We started in the 70s in swap meets in the California flea markets. Back then, drive-in movie theaters were swap meets during the day. We were selling all kinds of clothing. We found that we could only sell 2 days a week at the swap meet and at [...]
