Savor the Success - Business Network for women entrepreneurs

Do you dream about opening your own boutique? With proper preparation and a hard work, you can make your dream a reality. Grace works with small business owners and indie designers to help lay out the groundwork and improve their chances for success. Now you can learn from her extensive retail experience and even save thousands of dollars from her mistakes. As your retail consultant, Grace will be able to offer the following: • provide vision and direction to those who want to open their own boutique or sell to other boutiques and department stores • assist in merchandising assortment to ensure proper flow of delivery and trend • strategies to maximize opportunit...

Do you dream about opening your own boutique? With proper preparation and a hard work, you can make your dream a reality. Grace works with small business owners and indie designers to help lay out the groundwork and improve their chances for success. Now you can learn from her extensive retail experience and even save thousands of dollars from her mistakes.

As your retail consultant, Grace will be able to offer the following:

• provide vision and direction to those who want to open their own boutique or sell to other boutiques and department stores
• assist in merchandising assortment to ensure proper flow of delivery and trend
• strategies to maximize opportunities in order to drive sales
• help manage an open-to-buy system and provide feedback and recommendations
• develop a marketing strategy to generate word of mouth and brand recognition

Grace Kang has great passion when it comes to retail as well as 10 years of buying and consulting experience in the fashion industry. After graduating from Cornell University, she started her career as an assistant buyer for Bloomingdale’s and quickly moved up the corporate ladder. As a buyer for contemporary sportswear, she received a number of awards including “Buyer of the Year” for two consecutive years. Following her seven year stint at Bloomingdale’s, Grace was called to launch saks.com with a complete new buying team. Although e-commerce was new for Grace, she was able to incorporate all of her buying skills and took their handbag & shoe business to the next level.

Grace’s most recent accomplishment before launching Pink Olive was becoming a buyer for one of the most prestigious stores in the country – Barney’s New York. Working with some of the most talented, creative people in the industry allowed her to think outside the box and excel in fashion in both the business and creative sense of the word. Taste, luxury and humor best exemplified the culture at Barney’s and she was able to take their premium denim business to an unprecedented level with double digit increases. In partnering with her boss, CEO and the stores, she was able to fully maximize each opportunity and catered to the needs of each market. Grace has always approached each job as if they were her own, and she can do the same for you.

With extensive and invaluable knowledge about retail, Grace was finally equipped to open her own boutique in 2007. With the inspiration of her niece Katie, Pink Olive finally became reality - a dream come true. From the day she found and signed her lease in Manhattan, Grace was able to open her store in an amazing 30 days. Discover her incredible secrets and make your dream boutique a reality.

Grace’s web boutique (www.pinkoliveboutique.com) successfully launched in November 2006 followed by her brick and mortar store in East Village, Manhattan in May 2007 and Park Slope, Brooklyn in March 2008. The boutique carries over 50 vendors in baby, gifts and home with prices ranging from $3 to $300 depending on the item sold. Aside from running her two boutiques, Grace consults with fashion designers, small business owners and startups entering the retail world such as DailyCandy’s new private sale website, Swirl.