John Callanan Hats: CALLANAN HATS IN HAWAII

Thursday, February 5, 2015

CALLANAN HATS IN HAWAII

I received this wonderful unsolicited testimonial from a Callanan hat stockiest in Hawaii, so if you need a Callanan hat while on your Hawaii vacation, be sure to go to ALOHA HAT CO. in Lahaina or WAILEA.

"Aloha John! We met at Magic in August and were introduced by Richard Jacobs our sales rep here in Hawaii. My wife and I have an awesome hat shop we opened last March in Lahaina Maui Hawaii. We have a second shop opening in a few weeks in Wailea at the Shops Of Wailea which if you know Maui is the affluent high-end part of the island. We’re very excited about this flagship store and opening two hat shops in less than a year and wanted to reach out to you to talk about your line.

The reason I am writing to you is when I saw the 2015 line up for your designs at the show, I thought there were some interesting pieces but felt wow some of our best sellers from 2014 were gone and I did not see good replacements at the time. I'm not sure if everything was there with a sample, but I ordered a few hats at the show with Richard. As the hats start arriving in September, we started to get comfortable with the line and learned the up selling part and the hats started to move. Then they started to really move for us. We expanded our assortment and tested out more and more hats from your line to see what the potential was. Most have proven successful and we struggle to cut replenishment orders fast enough now. Great problem to have! I wanted to congratulate you on the line and pass on this information as to how well it is doing for us. It will be a huge focus for us in our Wailea store where we are expanding your assortment even more and we are really pushing the John Callanan designer name with all our customers. The designs are fun, the colors and lines are right, customers love them and there is something just "right" when they put them in hands so much so that the price is rarely a deterrent.

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