Kids today - January 1, 2008

Brazilian born Ana Furniss always wanted to own a store. She describes herself as being raised in Paraguay (where she received her interior design degree), spoiled in Costa Rica (where she met her husband of 25 years) and working her life away in the U.S. With the help of her daughter, Maggie, and husband, Larry, Ana owns and operates Kreativa for Kids in the Bird Art district in Miami.

• Departments
• Editor's Letter
• Editor’s Letter

• Industry Faces
• Setting the trend

• Kids Research
• Consumer confidence down, outlook bleak

• News
• Correction
• Agenda set for Kids Today's eighth annual conference
• Giggle launches proprietary collection
• A.P. Inds debuts Element collection
• Baby Love to relocate
• 10 Grain debuts modern furniture/toy collection
• Rug Market partners with designers for juvenile collections
• Sorensen out at Flexa
• Bearington Collection expands baby line
• Cuddlebugs-n-Cocoons teams up with TLC designer
• Hooker acquires Opus Designs

• Portfolio
• Gifts
• Gifted with a good year

• Retail Operations
• Outsourcing your HR

• Retail Q and A
• Most people are predicting business in 2008 will be about the same as 2007, flat at best. What are you doing (or going to do) this year to improve your business?

• Show Biz
• Gift Markets
• Sweet, hip, looks abound
• Las Vegas
• New year, new looks