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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Aug. 18, 2021 • 3:32 PM • 953 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Aug. 18, 2021 • 3:32 PM • 953 days ago
Happy to see industry publication HFN sharing Bridge's growth with its readers. 

Read the article at HFN:

https://www.hfndigital.com/industry-news/bridge-boasts-record-surge-in-membership/
 
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Mar. 12, 2020 • 9:13 AM • 1,477 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Mar. 12, 2020 • 9:13 AM • 1,477 days ago
In this month’s HFN magazine, Editor Allison Zisko gives Bridge a shout out in her ‘Letter from the Editor’ column. She encourages the home goods industry to adopt digital marketplaces (trade shows) now, and notes that Bridge started offering an online platform for the tabletop industry years ago. 

She notes that many big, well-funded trade shows (read IMC, which may spend $100m, and Messe) have suddenly seen the writing on the wall and are ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Jan. 21, 2020 • 10:57 AM • 1,528 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Jan. 21, 2020 • 10:57 AM • 1,528 days ago
Atlanta Seminar Offers Selling Strategies for Independent Stores
Casafina and Vietri will host Bridge’s Jason Solarek in their respective showrooms
Allison Zisko // Editor in Chief
January 15, 2020

Jason Solarek, Bridge CEO, and Matt Hullfish, Casafina’s national sales manager, at a seminar last year.

ATLANTA—Tabletop brands Casafina and Vietri are collaborating with e-commerce platform provider Bridge on two training sessions at the ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge May 31, 2019 • 11:58 AM • 1,763 days ago
This month’s HFN magazine shares a letter that I wrote to the editor. In the letter, I encourage the industry to team up and push back against Amazon and big online entities in order to ensure our long-term survival. I welcome your feedback on it.

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Fifty-four percent of people looking for a product go directly to Amazon.com, shared a front page story in this week’s Wall St. Journal. This 54 percent is not good for ...Read more of post

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June 6, 2019 • 04:02 PM
Jason at Bridge:
A sales rep shared this comment with me:
"Your letter rings too true--brands pay anywhere from 5-15 percent to a rep and vendors flip out--yet will pay a bigger percentage to Amazon."

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June 6, 2019 • 05:38 PM
Jason at Bridge:
A sales rep shared this comment with me:

Jason, you make some really good points. However, Amazon is not the only powerful force working against independent retailers. Right now, in my opinion, just as damaging as Amazon is the skyrocketing cost of commercial real estate. Rent in corporately owned shopping centers is out of control along with annual increases in CAM fees. Even in older, less desirable centers they are charging ridiculous rent. I have several customers who tell me that they still have pretty good traffic (despite taking a hit to online ordering) but their rent is killing them.

Just in the last month, I have lost two retailers who closed outright, one that is moving to another location in a less desirable area of town, and three stores in a locally owned chain about to close (three locations closed last year). In one location her space was costing $30,000/month! And they were taking an override on her sales!

It is also worth noting that two national chain stores have closed in the same center with more to come. I have at least one other retailer (that I know of) looking to get out of her lease and move because her CAM fees keep going up dramatically every year. She has two years left on her lease and is looking for someone to assign it to. She wants to buy her own space so she can control her costs. One of the stores that closed was a second location. It took nearly a year to build out and she was in there for less than a year. She signed a 10 year lease! While I would question the wisdom of a 10 year lease, it is easy to see how retailers could get caught up in the promise of a bright and shiny new storefront and the promises of the traffic it could bring.

The real estate owners/managers who demand long term leases are contributing to the problem. It is an all or nothing deal –if you don’t sign, they will find some other sucker to fill that spot. It is like dealing with the mafia.

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June 9, 2019 • 09:12 PM
Jason at Bridge:
Wendy Kvalheim, owner of premium tableware manufacturer Mottahedeh, shared this comment:

Your article is very compelling. Though people are lured by the great potential of selling to Amazon, it is a slippery slope and something that is very difficult to come back from. We made a decision years ago not to join this group. One must make a decision about who one’s audience is. If it is a luxury brand, it must appeal to the exclusive buyer and consumer and the volumes are relatively small. Much of this business is through the internet and requires taking drop ship orders.
Bridge is perfect for this type of business because it saves a lot of man hours by linking the manufacturer with the retailer We value this service and plan to continue.

Best wishes,

Wendy Kvalheim
CEO and Owner
Mottahedeh
5 Corporate Drive
Cranbury, N.J. 08512

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Mar. 29, 2018 • 10:32 AM • 2,191 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Mar. 29, 2018 • 10:32 AM • 2,191 days ago
HFN shares that Juliska is joining Bridge

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Juliska Partners with Bridge Catalog
Bridge Catalog supports indie retailers
March 26, 2018, Jaclyn Turner

NEW YORK— Premium tableware and home décor designer Juliska will partner with Bridge, an ecommerce platform, beginning May 1 to help authorized retailers increase their sales.

Bridge considers itself as Dropbox meeting Amazon meeting Facebook.

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Jan. 2, 2018 • 11:21 AM • 2,277 days ago

HFN reports on Bridge's survey:

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Indie Retailers Get Sales Boost from Product Syncing Service

Sales increases ranged from roughly 4.5 percent for brands such as Arte Italica and Spode to more than 13.5 percent for Beatriz Ball and Vietri

January 2, 2018, Allison Zisko

NEW YORK—Main Street retailers are benefitting from a tabletop product-syncing service offered by Bridge, an e-commerce platform that includes file sharing...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 4, 2017 • 7:47 PM • 2,489 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 4, 2017 • 7:47 PM • 2,489 days ago
Thanks to HFN and Allison Zisko for covering our Bridge Brand Conference ;)
Please find the article below:

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Bridge Gives Indie Retailers Tools to Compete with E-Commerce Giants
Brand-supplied product info can boost Google search results

June 1, 2017 / by Allison Zisko

NEW YORK—Bridge, an e-commerce platform that connects tabletop brands to independent retailers, held its first conference ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 30, 2016 • 6:16 PM • 2,645 days ago
Thanks to HFN and Allison Zisko for this nice capstone to 2016 today. ;)

Read the full about Bridge's registry sales record here on HFN's site or below
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Independent Retailers Boost Tabletop Registry Sales with Bridge

Sales far exceed last year's totals

December 30, 2016, Allison Zisko / HFN Magazine


NEW YORK — Bridge, a tabletop e-commerce platform, said its network of independent retailers this week crossed a new threshold for...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Nov. 6, 2015 • 12:28 PM • 3,065 days ago
Today's HFN magazine shares Bridge's progress with helping independent retailers. Bridge would like to thanks its members for helping everyone make it to this milestone.

Article:

Bridge and its Tabletop Partners Reach a Milestone
Bridge founder expects to reach $1.2 million by year's end
Posted on November 6, 2015 by Allison Zisko

NEW YORK- Bridge, a tabletop ecommerce platform, has helped its retailer partners cross the $1 million mark for online gift ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge May 18, 2015 • 5:13 PM • 3,237 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge May 18, 2015 • 5:13 PM • 3,237 days ago
This month's HFN magazine is dedicated to e-commerce. Allison Zisko, the magazine's tableware reporter, shares how businesses are using Bridge.

Excerpt:

In some instances, third parties can offer services that retailers find hard to manage, such as keeping on top of the newest prices, SKUs or colors in a line. Bridge is an e-commerce platform that offers retailers–mostly smaller independents–a full online catalog of select tabletop brands that are ...Read more of post

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