Celebrate Small Business Saturday in Boulder

BOULDER, CO -- The Pearle Street Mall in Downtown Boulder will kick off the post-Thanksgiving season with Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25. Shopping local keeps money and jobs in the community. In Boulder, events last from 11 am - 2 pm. They will center around the Downtown Visitor Information Center at 13th St. and Pearle.

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at the Visitor Information Center, with rides on the Snowflake Express kiddie train offered during the same timeframe (weather permitting). In addition, enjoy Holiday carolers in nostalgic attire roaming downtown throughout the day. Don't forget, Boulder is home to small businesses that make the town a fun place to live. Here are the participants in the Pearle Street event:

1313 Salon, Adorned, Alpaca Connection, Alpine Modern Shop + Coffee Bar, Art + Soul Gallery, Art Mart Gifts, Art Source International, Barbara & Company, Bliss, Boulder Book Store, by elke, Canova Home, Cariloha, Cedar & Hyde Mercantile, Chantique Antiques and Chandeliers, Chelsea, Clothes Pony & Dandelion Toys, Color Me Mine, Crystal Galleries, Cured, Cured West, The Dragontree Spa, El Loro Jewelry & Gifts, Experimac Boulder, Fabricate , Fresh Produce, Front Range Anglers, Full Cycle, Go Far, Goorin Bros. Hat Shop, Hurdle's Jewelry ,Island Farm, Jackalope & Co. International, John Atencio, Kiwi Boutique, Liberty Puzzles, Lindsay's Boulder Deli @ Haagen Dazs , Liquor Mart, Momentum, Mud Facial Bar, Nani Nalu Beachwear Boutique, Nature's Own, Nomad Bead Merchants, Pedestrian Shops, Peppercorn, Pompadours Hair Salon, POSHsplat , prAna, Ramble on Pearl, Red Fox Outdoor Equipment, The Ritz, Savory Spice, Savvy on Pearl, Shoe Fly, Spinster Sisters, St Julien Gift Shop, Topo Designs , Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Two Hands Paperie, Two Sole Sisters, Voss Art + Home, Weekends, West End Salon, West End Wine Shop , Where the Buffalo Roam, Zeal Optics, Zuni

Also, The Colorado Dept. of Agriculture wants you to know that Colorado food products make great Christmas gifts.

Boulder-based Backpacker's Pantry has sold gourmet freeze-fried camping and emergency foods supplies for more than 45 years.

Colorado Spice carries a full line of high quality spice blends, great for gift baskets or stocking stuffers.

Statistics from the Small Business Administration

• There are 28.8 million small businesses in the country.
• Small businesses account for 99.7% of all businesses in the US.
• Small businesses accounted for 64% of new jobs created in the U.S. between 1993 and 2011
• Franchised small businesses employ roughly 8 million people, and make up 40 % of all American retail jobs.

Small Business Stats from Other Sources

• Small businesses donate 250% more than larger businesses to non-profits and community causes (Source: Seattle Good Business Network).
• If you spend $100 at a local business, roughly $68 stays in your local economy. If you spend the same are a large business, only $43 stays in the local economy (Source: Civic Economics Study in Grand Rapids, Michigan).
• 66% of small businesses plan to keep spending money on digital marketing. According to the same study, 66% could not survive without wireless technology (AT&T Small Business Technology Poll 2013).

Small businesses are important to the economy as a whole. Small businesses create jobs, boost Boulder's economy and preserve neighborhoods.

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