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We took a moment to get to know Karen Roberts, Owner of Get Fit in Amarillo, Texas. Here’s what she had to say:
MG: Why did you choose...
Your store’s personal culture is the defining factor for your salespeople as well as your customers. It defines the behavior of your...
Flexibility
One of the most useful skills for a Retail Manager is flexibility. Flexibility can be defined as a willingness to change or compromise....
Manufacturer and Sales Agencies have limited opportunity to influence sell-through in their retail accounts. Historically, the most available...
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t...
Running a business isn’t easy. At the Mann Group, we’re always pretty quick to acknowledge just how lucky we are that we get to do...
Imagine you wake up one morning with no memory of your business. In the middle of the night, every recollection of your profession vanished. Every...
We first met Ian Christie of Summit Bicycles over a year ago, when we profiled him as a Featured Retailer. We delved deep into the 20 Collective,...
“All in the family.” It’s a phrase with which many specialty retailers are familiar. Their shops and sales pitches, their brands...
At Adventure 16 in Southern California, the next generation is the old one.
Over the past 40 years, John D. Mead, President of A16, has consistently...
For years, The Mann Group has been helping the veterans of the specialty retail industry and titans of the manufacturing industry across the...
The word “buyout” rings with a level of frantic implications, but the truth is, when conducted between the right people and with the...
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