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How One Family Jeweler Lured a Herd of Customers on Its 100th Anniversary

Cupcakes, storewide sales and a raffle drawing make for successful celebration.

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9 years ago

May 24, 2016

INSTORE Staff

Customers packed the Geo T. Ingham and Son Jewellers store of Canada as it celebrated its centennial anniversary with an open-house event featuring cupcakes, coffee, storewide sales and a drawing for a diamond pendant, the Innisfail Province writes. Garth Gingham, the third-generation owner of the business, spoke with the news outlet and credited the store’s own generational customers for helping sustain it. “We’ve seen the demise of the small business and the family business, which is a sad thing,” he says. “In the industry itself there’s been huge changes. I took a design course when everything was done by pencil and paint. Now it’s all done on computer and there’s the use of lasers in the jewelry industry.”

Read more at the Innisfail Province

Retiring? Let Wilkerson Do the Heavy Lifting

Retirement can be a great part of life. As Nanji Singadia puts it, “I want to retire and enjoy my life. I’m 78 now and I just want to take a break.” That said, Nanji decided that the best way to move ahead was to contact the experts at Wilkerson. He chose them because he knew that closing a store is a heavy lift. To maximize sales and move on to the next, best chapter of his life, he called Wilkerson—but not before asking his industry friends for their opinion. He found that Wilkerson was the company most recommended and says their professionalism, experience and the homework they did before the launch all helped to make his going out of business sale a success. “Wilkerson were working on the sale a month it took place,” he says. “They did a great job.”