{"id":8512,"date":"2012-03-23T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/index.php\/tanning-businesses-growing-poll-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T23:32:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T03:32:54","slug":"tanning-businesses-growing-poll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tanning-businesses-growing-poll-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanning Businesses Growing: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-in-three tanning businesses have increased the amount of UV tanning equipment in their stores in the past two years, according to a SmartTan.com poll.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, twice as many stores say they have added additional UV equipment compared to the number who have reduced their equipment total. Thirty-one percent of stores say they have more equipment today, while just fifteen percent have down-sized, according to the poll. The majority, fifty-four percent, have not changed the number of units in their stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still stores increasing their UV tanning options \u2014 and that is another sign that there are plenty of success stories in the UV tanning market today,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cAs the economy pushes in the right direction, we think you will continue to see tanning businesses who will be in position to grow with increasing consumer demand for tanning services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This SmartTan.com poll\u2019s directional findings are consistent with the results of other polls conducted in the past six months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8118\" href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/index.php\/tanning-businesses-growing-poll\/2012-02-07-poll\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8118\" title=\"2012-02-07-Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-07-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-in-three tanning businesses have increased the amount of UV tanning equipment in their stores in the past two years, according to a SmartTan.com poll. According to the poll, twice as many stores say they have added additional UV equipment compared to the number who have reduced their equipment total. Thirty-one percent of stores say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tanning Businesses Growing: Poll - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nearly one-in-three tanning businesses have increased the amount of UV tanning equipment in their stores in the past two years, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in February.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tanning-businesses-growing-poll-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tanning Businesses Growing: Poll - 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