Embroidery Start-Up
Emily Lambert

Embroidery carts and kiosks offer shoppers the personalized products they crave and have the potential to generate significant primary and secondary-market sales. Check out these embroidery business start-up packages that bring together compact equipment, computerized controls and great-looking products to give specialty retailers with no embroidery skills a shot at sewing up big sales in no time.

Start-up Made Simple
Dan Rafter

The right start-up package can give you a safer, faster and less-stressful launch.

Strategic Planning in One Day
Erica Olsen

Dramatically improve your growth strategy and map out a plan to keep your business on track throughout 2008—in one day.

Specialty Retail Report's 12th Annual Guide to Top Cart & Kiosk Start-up Packages

Whether you're new to the specialty leasing market or you're a seasoned retailer, buying into a start-up package can be a great way to launch a new cart or kiosk. This year's Guide includes dozens of start-ups specifically designed to fit the needs of specialty retail entrepreneurs.

merchandising and marketing

Cool, Classy and Quirky Carts and Kiosks
Emily Lambert

Cutting-edge cart and kiosk designs make specialty retailers more visible and their businesses more viable. They also help center management attract the right tenants. In short, everybody wins.

11th Annual Visual Victories Awards

Specialty Retail Report is pleased to present the 21 winners of our 11th Annual Visual Victories Awards, celebrating excellence in visual merchandising!

Visual Victories recognizes the creative retailers, skillful visual merchandisers and dedicated specialty leasing professionals who worked in concert to create the imaginative displays, props and signage featured on the following pages.

retailer profiles

Micabella's Mineral Magic
Bernadette Starzee

Eli Frenkel, Roni Paz and Jovany Mamo know what women want when they go shopping for cosmetics. They want products that are natural, versatile, hypoallergenic, long lasting, easy-to-apply and look fabulous. Micabella Cosmetics delivers that—and more.

retail products

Unique Concepts: Spring 2008

Nine unique concepts that could have you making money!

T-shirt Trends: Selling through selection and service
Randall G. Mielke

Americans spent more than $22 billion on T-shirts in 2006, up a healthy eight percent from 2005. Specialty retailers and their suppliers are doing their best to capture their share of this growing market with fresh retail concepts and hot new products shoppers are teeing up to buy.

Nail the Sales with Nail Art
Emily Lambert

Consumers spend more than $6 billion in nail salons every year, but heading to the salon takes time and costs money. With increasingly cramped schedules and tight budgets, millions of consumers are searching for inexpensive, easy-to-apply nail products they can use at home but still get the salon look.

Specialty retailers are happy to oblige, demonstrating everything from high-shine buffers to high-design stamping nail art kits that are priced right for the cart and kiosk market.