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Sun Tan City, one of the nation’s fastest-growing chains of privately owned tanning salons, announced today it has extended its footprint to 18 states with the acquisition of tanworld, a franchise-based model of tanning salons originating out of Sioux City, …

A Kansas physician is sending his vitamin D deficient patients to local indoor tanning facilities to get a tan and, in the process, make vitamin D, a Smart Tan member in Emporia, Kansas is reporting.

The Midas Touch Golden Tans …

Smart Tan Magazine’s January issue hit this week, with Smart Tan Management Consultants Rich Kizer and Georganne Bender writing the cover story offering five improvements you can make to your business right now to improve your customer care.

The magazine …

Smart Tan is kicking the year off by presenting at Heartland Tannning’s “Show Me the Money” expo, featuring speakers and exhibits geared to help salon owners improve their business and increase profits. The event will take place in the Georgia …

A stronger-than-expected U.S. manufacturing sector is largely responsible for an up-tick in underlying optimism about the U.S. economy heading into 2011 — all of which is good news for service and retail industries like the professional indoor tanning community.

The …

Smart Tan is always saying that if pharmaceutical companies could sell sunshine, they would in a heartbeat. It looks like one municipality is considering selling it themselves. Jerry Sanders, the mayor of San Diego, recently proposed that the city should …

“Working on a tan is analogous to training muscles; both, if done in moderation and reasonably, serve a worthwhile purpose.” — Dr. Bernard Ackerman, founder of the New York City-based Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology and author of The Sun and …

About one-third of tanning business owners felt 2010 was a stronger year than they expected according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late December. That’s an upside heading into the 2011 tanning season.

According to the poll, almost half of …