{"id":8975,"date":"2012-05-02T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2012-05-01T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:25:04","slug":"tanning-product-sales-up-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tanning-product-sales-up-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanning Product Sales Up in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of all tanning salons say tanning product sales represent a larger portion of their bottom line so far this year, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late April \u2014 yet another indicator that the retail economy is rebounding this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, 53 percent of salons say product\/lotion sales represent a larger portion of their income so far in 2012 as compared to 2011, while 34 percent say product sales are a smaller percentage of total sales. Another 12 percent found no difference from last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, of course, several ways to interpret this kind of poll, but in the context of other polls we\u2019ve conducted this year it follows that for many salons\u2019 consumers are once again picking up product sales with their tanning packages, and that leading salons in the market are doing a better job packaging and selling lotion as an integral part of tanning,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cThis is another encouraging sign for the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-05-02-Poll.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8977\" title=\"2012-05-02-Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012-05-02-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of all tanning salons say tanning product sales represent a larger portion of their bottom line so far this year, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late April \u2014 yet another indicator that the retail economy is rebounding this year. According to the poll, 53 percent of salons say product\/lotion sales [&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-8975","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 Product Sales Up in 2012 - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than half of all tanning salons say tanning product sales represent a larger portion of their bottom line so far this year, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late April \u2014 yet another indicator that the retail economy is rebounding this year.  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Another 12 percent found no difference from last year.  \u201cThere are, of course, several ways to interpret this kind of poll, but in the context of other polls we\u2019ve conducted this year it follows that for many salons\u2019 consumers are once again picking up product sales with their tanning packages, and that leading salons in the market are doing a better job packaging and selling lotion as an integral part of tanning,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cThis is another encouraging sign for the market.\u201d\" \/>\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-product-sales-up-in-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tanning Product Sales Up in 2012 - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than half of all tanning salons say tanning product sales represent a larger portion of their bottom line so far this year, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late April \u2014 yet another indicator that the retail economy is rebounding this year.  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