July 2020
Zoom Sessions
We are happy to share that we will be offering two Zoom sessions next week. The first will take place on Tuesday, July 21st at 1:00 pm EST and the second on Thursday, July 23rd at 10 am EST. The topic will be: Inventory (re-evaluating and planning for the remainder of 2020). Cris Willis will once again be co hosting. You will need to register for the Zoom session of interest. We will send a link/invitation via email to those who register. We look forward to connecting and sharing with you – Come ready with your ideas and questions. Each session will last around one hour, for those planning to include a session, into their work day.
Summer Travel Incentive: The AmericasMart
Book Your Hotel For Atlanta Market: August 13 – 18, 2020
The AmericasMart’s official hotel provider – onPeak – is now offering discounted hotel rates for Summer Atlanta Market. Now more than ever, they know plans can change, so they are offering flexible booking policies to allow you to choose your preferred hotel now without worry. View Hotels.
Register in advance for market
See what the AmericasMart is doing to prepare for reopening
The link below is reserved for VIP buyers and rooms are limited.
Click to make your reservation here.
Because you are a PPP buying group member, the AmericasMart is happy to extend one complimentary night for the show once your room is booked by you using the above link by the deadline. One incentive per company. We will apply the complimentary night after you book and you will receive a second confirmation with the night shown in the Notes section of the confirmation. No complimentary night can be applied after the deadline of the Summer Market. DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JULY 17th
Questions? Contact Sarah Koutsogiannis, Director of Buyer Services, 404.220.2433, shilton@imcenters.com
Networking
Question: We are looking for a new magazine/paperback novel/game book distributor to service our shop. Does anyone have any suggestions for a magazine distribution service? Thanks so much.
Reply: I use Andrew Distribution and they are located in Illinois (My hospital gift shop is in Colorado). I only get magazines and puzzle books so I am not sure if they do paperbacks. This group is awesome and I am very pleased with it. Their phone number is (708) 410-2400.
NEW QUESTION: We are considering offering CBD in our Gift Shop – can you share your experience, willingness to carry this category, feedback from administration and general thoughts? Thank you.
Send your thoughts or suggestions to memberteam@purchasingpowerplus.net and we will compile and share with everyone.
Masks, PPE & More
There are many Vendors in the retail industry now offering products in these categories, but we encourage you to focus your buying dollars with PPP Vendors, who are supporting our Retail Community. Our Vendors need your support (always!) but even more so, during these challenging times. We have compiled a comprehensive guide and will continue to update this listing. Click here to download our listing.
A Virtual Review: Dani Naturals
Given the current health crisis around the globe, we know many of you may not be traveling to Market this summer. We know that buying from a catalog or a website without seeing the product first hand can be a challenge! So we invited Dani Naturals to send along products to our team, so we could share our first Virtual Review. (You will also have a chance to win products from Dani Natural – look for the curated selection in our August buzz worthy giveaway.)
First, a little about Dani Naturals and why we invited them to join our Retail Community:
As we researched this line, we learned that Dani Natural’s use 100% vegetable oil bases and essential oil blends. They use organic ingredients in all their bath & body products and 100% soy wax in their candles. All their products are made in the USA and use the highest quality, most natural ingredients available…
What they don’t use: Petroleum, Parabens, GMOs, Artificial colorants or dyes, SLS or ALS (sodium laurel sulfate or ammonia laurel sulfate) or Paraffin.
Dani Naturals also shares our care for the environment. From the use of recyclable containers, to the 100% bio-degradable packing materials they use… from their soy-based inks to minimal (yet elegant) packaging… you can be sure that if it isn’t good for the environment, it isn’t used in or around Dani Naturals.
Natural products… you know they’re better for you. You know they’re safer for your family. But they don’t always smell that good. Scent…it is the most primal of the senses and generates 75% of the emotions we feel. Dani Naturals set out to be different and created custom essential oil blends to scent their all-natural products with, ensuring they smell incredibly fresh and entirely unique. It’s the best of both worlds – natural ingredients you’ll feel good about, in fragrances you’ll love.
Our favorite fragrances? You really can’t go wrong with any of their offerings and our team really varied in preferences.
Passion Fruit was delicious! Fruity and a bit more scented than the other samples, the candle was a hit and kept “moving” from desk to desk. Coconut hibiscus was a pleasant surprise and given the warm summer months – it felt appropriate and everyone went for this lotion again and again. Another sleeper favorite was the Lemon Lavender – we gave this lotion to a team member who is not a lavender fan, but even she loved it! We have not met the person who didn’t love Grapefruit Ginger and its clean lovely scent would be hard to pass up. We see why Dani Naturals touts it as one of their most popular scents. If you are looking for the lightest scent that just whispers, we must recommend Sandalwood Vanilla – it is beautifully warm. The lotion itself is light and never greasy, but our hands felt soft even an hour later and given all the hand washing we are doing – we were impressed.
The packaging is simply beautiful and images online truly don’t capture just how lovely this collection is. The box the candles arrive in are particularly wonderful and made it feel more gift like.
We know that bringing in a new line can be a leap of faith – it may feel safer to stick with what you know, but we encourage you to branch out and try Dani Naturals. We think you and your customers will love it as much as we do! And now, Dani Naturals has no Opening Order minimum amount for PPP Retail Members. Try it out and share your feedback. We would love to hear from you. 10% Discount, (541) 382-2339, daninaturals.com, sales@daninaturals.com
Thank you for supporting our PPP Vendor Partners!
