{"id":2907,"date":"2009-12-23T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2009-12-23T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:30:59","slug":"the-rollercoaster-ride-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/the-rollercoaster-ride-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rollercoaster Ride of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2908\" title=\"jan-10-canada\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jan-10-canada-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jan-10-canada\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>2009 was a very exciting year for the Canadian tanning community \u2013 the majority of tanning salons were up over last year all the way to July when the IARC press release came out, causing salon business to stall or decrease. I heard of some salons being down as much as 83 percent and the average being around 25 percent down. The good news is in October salons started to rebound and sales improved<a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.epubxpress.com\/link\/tant\/2010\/jan\/30?s=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;&#8230;FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 was a very exciting year for the Canadian tanning community \u2013 the majority of tanning salons were up over last year all the way to July when the IARC press release came out, causing salon business to stall or decrease. I heard of some salons being down as much as 83 percent and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tt-biz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Rollercoaster Ride of 2009 - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2009 was a very exciting year for the Canadian tanning community \u2013 the majority of tanning salons were up over last year all the way to July when the IARC press release came out, causing salon business to stall or decrease. I heard of some salons being down as much as 83 percent and the average being around 25 percent down. 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