The Quilted Bear’s concept is built upon stores located in great retail locations, selling high quality items, in a warm & entertaining environment! Each Quilted Bear store does well because we are able to average from 3,000 to 6,000 customer visits each week. Our goal is to always be the BEST home decor & gift mall in the business! We know however that our success only comes after your success, and that is why we need people like you!
Please look over this information. If you believe you have a great product and would like to sell your items in an exciting and profitable operation, let us help—you’ll be glad you did!
STORE LOCATIONS:
Excellent retail locations (all stores are located inside major malls or within a few miles of them)
STORE DECORATION AND ATMOSPHERE:
Our shopping atmospheres are unsurpassed! We make a shopping visit FUN!
Customers constantly say, "WOW! This place is incredible!"
All crafters are juried to ensure high quality and minimal merchandise duplication.
CRAFTER SALES:
Sales in each location exceed well over One Million dollars annually. We advertise heavily (99% of our advertising dollar goes to attracting customers—not crafters)!
To encourage large purchases we have our own custom-made shopping carts and hand baskets. Customer traffic is excellent! Each store uses between 3 to 5 cash registers to handle the customer traffic! Customers on average shop for over 2 hours in our showrooms. That is partly because each Quilted Bear is so HUGE. . . ranging from 23,000 sq. ft. to 45,000 sq. ft. each! It’s these large sizes with a sizeable variety of items that help attract people from all over! We often get people that fly into town from other states just to shop with us.
We have many many crafters that sell well in excess of 10 TIMES their booth fee each month (e.g., Booth fee of $100 but sales of $1000 or more). We have crafters that tell us they are in over 200 other craft malls throughout the country and that their sales in our stores are always in their top 10!
State-of-the-art security systems and computerized sales and inventory systems (crafters have the ability to lookup their daily sales on our website.)
Some of our locations have an in-store restaurant to handle hungry customers. These restaurants help encourage customers to shop longer because they can take a break from shopping and have lunch or a snack.
There is no charge for using inventory-tracking numbers.
No bad check or Visa charges are passed on to crafters.
For our customers, we offer Special Orders and Gift Cards.
...You don’t even have to step into our stores to sell in them. We can decorate, sell, and restock for you.
Our company attitude towards you the crafter is: We Don’t Succeed Until You Succeed! We take this motto very seriously because we can only succeed if our crafters are succeeding.
HOW TO LICENSE A SPACE:
Please click on the link at the bottom of this page for our Jury Application and send it in with photographs or samples of your work.
The Quilted Bear selects crafters based on two areas of criteria:
1) Quality of workmanship, and
2) Variety of items {compared with others already in that particular store}.
OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Stores retain 11% commission on all personally handmade sales and 15% commission on non-handmade Items.
Crafters are paid once per month. Booth rent and commissions are automatically deducted from sales totals so you don’t have to worry about sending checks (unless your sales will not cover your mnthly rent, etc.).
1st month's booth rent and a security deposit (of the same amount) is required up-front.
Don’t forget to submit pictures of your items. You may e-mail them (midvale, ogden, or provo (at) quiltedbear.com) or send them via US Mail. You can find mailing information by clicking here, or navigating to our contact us page. Please allow up to two weeks to hear whether accepted or not.
We advertise heavily (99% of our advertising dollar goes to attracting customers—not crafters)!
Booth prices begin around $75/month (4x2) but pricing will vary from location to location. For exact pricing, you will need to contact the respective store you are looking into joining.
