Businesses - Get Involved:
 

   If you own or manage a locally owned and operated business and would like to find out how you can be included in current or future promotions please email a brief inquiry to:  

GetInvolved.golocal@gmail.com    

~Downloadable pdf on how to get involved~   

Include if applicable:  

  Business Name, Phone Number, Address, Web Address, and 3-5 sentence description of your Local Business.  

  As a service to local businesses - it is FREE to participate in district promotions and online listings!! Take advantage of this offer today-

  We are looking forward to the next holiday performance study conducted by AMIBA... Below you will find the study done for last year's holiday shopping season 

NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    JANUARY 14, 2010   

INDEPENDENT RETAILERS OUTPERFORM MANY CHAINS OVER HOLIDAYS, NATIONAL SURVEY FINDS  

  Sales Percentage Difference From Previous Holiday Season   

  (National survey by AMIBA©, local businesses with & without buy local campaign)    

*Dept of Commerce figures are entirely retail and include gasoline sales. A majority of respondents to the ILSR servey were retailers, but other business types were represented. The survey numbers were not rounded.

CONTACT : Jennifer Rockne, Director or Jeff Milchen, Co-founder, American Independent Business Alliance. 406-582-1255, jennifer@AMIBA.net  

Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance www.ilsr.org , (conducted the survey): 207-774-6792, smitchell@ilsr.org