Archive for June 22nd, 2007

  • Pippin McGee Strives To Anticipate Customer Needs

    Kids Today:
    Kim Crouchet, owner of Pippin McGee in Lafayette, La., got into the juvenile industry the same way many retailers did — when she and her husband, Robert, had children, she realized there was a void in her local market.
    “When we had our first child, we walked into Babies ‘R’ Us and had no concept [...]

  • New Rules Ease Summertime ‘Hecktivity’

    Pahrump Valley Times:
    Along with Hubby and the boys, I looked forward to the end of the school year with enthusiasm. A brief reprieve from dragging the kids out of bed every morning would be wonderful. For a couple of months, I would not have to make breakfast while putting together bag lunches — or writing [...]

  • It Takes A Tough Mom To Make Tender Cookies

    delawareonline:
    The delicious fragrance greets visitors as soon as they step onto the driveway of the Leishears’ home in Milton.
    The scent emanates from a nondescript building behind the garage. This is the home of Bella’s Cookies, Delaware’s only natural and organic cookie company.
    The beach-area business, located in farmland just minutes from busy Del. 1, began in [...]

  • It’s A Mom’s World

    Entrepreneur.com:
    Moms know everything. They know where their kids left their socks, they know what time the carpool leaves, they know how to get a cranky 4-year-old through a shopping mall. Given their mastery of multitasking, is it any wonder mothers make such good business owners?
    It was motherhood itself that inspired Laurie McCartney to start Babystyle, [...]