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Article: Plumbing, heating & cooling: spark up winter sales with fireplace products.
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- Do-It-Yourself Retailing
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 National Retail Hardware Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Selling fireplace products and accessories is an excellent way to spark sales during the late fall and winter months, when retail sales traditionally slow down. And as customers turn to their fireplaces to turn up the heat this winter, they will be turning to hardware and home improvement retailers for the products they need.
Even in the South, winter brings a seasonal opportunity for retailers to sell fireplace products when it gets cool. "We sell a lot of packaged fire logs during this time of year," says Mark Turner of Turner Ace Hardware in Jacksonville, Fla. "The heating units in many of the homes here just weren't designed for cold temperatures." However, he ...
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... ... HPBA) data, demand for fireplaces, stoves, inserts and log sets in 2005 rose eight percent from the previous year. The findings ... hearth appliances, including fireplaces, freestanding stoves, log sets and inserts, increased 27 percent in the past year, from ...
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