Archive for July, 2010
Retail Lighting Options
Changing the look of your retail store can be as easy as changing the lighting. Lighting can make a big difference in the look and feel of your store. It can also make a difference in your customer’s buying mood and impression of your inventory.
Track lighting is really the most versatile and effective lighting product on the market today. You can illuminate displays, store fronts, window displays and more. Many retailers use track lighting inside of their glass display cases as well. Cash register areas and important signage can be accented with track lighting.
Track lighting can be hung on a track from the ceiling. With adjustable heads, they are versatile tools for lighting up wall displays. They are high up, small and almost completely out of sight, so they do not detract attention from the products you are highlighting.
New trends are leaning towards single lights that hang down on a wire. With these, you can use decorative or contemporary heads to help distinguish yourself from the competition. Task areas and counters can be illuminated and decorated at the same time. These types of lights are referred to as pendant lights. They make usable light in low-light areas. Art glass and other decorative covers make pendant lights a wonderful addition to just about any store.
Lighting can also help with promotions. Our eyes are naturally drawn to areas of different lighting. That display back in the corner may have been overlooked before, but if you come up with a lighting scheme that accents this area, you could be seeing your customers become interested again. This enables you to draw attention to areas that need it and help your items suddenly look more attractive.
Lighting also works well for theft prevention. Shoplifters need to feel secluded and secretive when they are doing their deeds. Dark corners and dim lighting are their friends. Lighting up areas that you suspect may be inviting to a thief will help deter them from getting comfortable enough to steal your merchandise. Extra lighting in your dressing room areas is also helpful in theft prevention.
There are all kinds of track lighting and specialty lighting products on the market today. You can choose from high efficiency fluorescent or metal halide lamps. You can choose low or line volt lights. The possibilities are endless when it comes to lighting and a little money goes a long way. This inexpensive upgrade to your store can help you to promote items, improve the look and feel of your store and at the same time, deter shoplifters from targeting you. Lighting could be one of the most important store fixtures that you consider in your store.
Tags: Lighting Options, New Trends, Wall Displays
Hospitality Degree Programs Preferred Over General Business for Hotel and Restaurant Management
The events of 9/11 put a damper on the travel industry and the number of businesses that took an unfortunate hit caused several to lose their longstanding jobs as a result. Many once employed in the industry have since moved on to other fields, creating a vacuum for qualified travel and tourism professionals now that per 9/11 industry profits have been eclipsed. Every type of business remotely related to the industry has felt the effects of the personnel shortages, from restaurants and hotels to cruise ships and airfare discounters.
For those who are interested in taking advantage of the ample opportunities, choosing an educational path may seem like an easy task. After all, travel industry businesses are exactly that: businesses, and many make the association between a business education and success in any field where products and services are bought and sold.
In truth, hotels, restaurants and travel and tourism related companies face challenges unique to the industry that a general business degree may not sufficiently prepare graduates for. For starters, a typical business management degree program is heavy on analytical processes and light on personnel management. While that may be suitable for selling sprockets, it’s less than ideal when customer interaction is the underlying focus of the company.
Restaurants are a perfect example. While in theory, the economics of buying low and selling high are more crucial to a small eatery than almost any other type of business, there’s more to running a successful business than keeping an eye on the bottom line. Restaurants do sell food, but they market ambiance, and the meal is only as memorable as the service which imparts it. Hotels face the same challenges, as a properly motivated and managed staff can make a mediocre property lucrative while an unfriendly staff can could spoil a weekend at the Carillon.
Aside from extensive curriculum on people management skills, however, there are other areas where a hospitality degree program can provide more industry relevancy than a general business program. Most travel and tourism businesses are heavily involved in reselling, split point income (from deposit receivables) and property management. From an accounting standpoint alone, the differences between hospitality and traditional model businesses are abundant.
Tags: Business Management Degree, Carillon, Industry Businesses
Formaldehyde standard two-drug fight hard Rights detection difficult Furniture – formaldehyde, furniture, standard – Building Materials Industry
March 10, in the Wuchang District Consumers Association, the author saw as a “drug of furniture,” the Pang discussing the couple, their faces slightly tired. Since last June, Mr. Pang was wife to Cupboard Smoked one question running around.
Pang said that last year in the small East Gate Danjiang Building Materials Market, a set of custom cabinets, the price agreed to 3,000 yuan. After installing the cabinets, the room soon smell.
Pang could not bear to find a testing company to conduct air testing. Test report, the kitchen air, the formaldehyde content is 0.47 mg / cubic meter, which is the national standard ( 0.10 mg / cubic meter) of the nearly 5-fold.
Pang then replace some of the cabinets to find businesses. However, the replacement of the cabinets were still smoked were then linked business, the other authority to be provided, for the cabinet itself “failed” test report, or ignore.
Pang Advisory Wuhan quality inspection by the other party said that the testing is destructive testing, to remove samples of the various parts of the cabinet, after the submission by the merchants authorized signature. “Now businesses Bierbuxian, how can we get their approval and then submission it?” Mr. Peng is embarrassed.
Wuchang District Consumers Association Deputy Secretary-General Meng-sing, said in recent years on “Smoked sofa,” “Smoked people Floor “And other furniture complaints increased significantly, but the” hard test “so that consumers most want to discuss say” quit. ”
I Survey: 2 formaldehyde standard “fight” and there are also drawbacks of detection methods Yesterday I went to a small
Wuchang East Gate of unannounced visits to the furniture market. In a democratic way, cabinets and flooring products regardless of price level, most of the outer packaging marked ” Environmental protection Qualified “, or indicate a very low formaldehyde” E0 “or” E1 “word. Has stores also show compliance report, declaring that” does not contain formaldehyde. ”
I learned from the quality supervision departments of Wuhan, at present, due to the detection of formaldehyde is no uniform standard of furniture, for formaldehyde detection, there will be different standards, and test results of different situations. Current can be applied to the furniture industry standard formaldehyde content of two, namely “indoor air quality standards” and “Interior Decoration Material harmful substances in the wood furniture. ” Among them, the former limit of formaldehyde content is 0.10 mg / cubic meter, while the latter eligibility criteria for the formaldehyde content of 1.5 mg / liter. “Enterprises in the production process, often a standard according to which the results will conflict with another standard, resulting in furniture formaldehyde content of formaldehyde in air compliance and non-compliance of the conflict.”
Meng Star said that the current detection method of formaldehyde in the furniture, there are also certain disadvantages. Such as the cabinet with several pieces of different Plate To detect using perforated, each part must be destructive sampling, which can often stumped consumers. He noted that the formaldehyde test methods need improvement, and shall establish appropriate standards.
Tags: Custom Cabinets, Drug Fight, Test Report