This year may go down as the Christmas shopping season in which consumers bounced off the mat of financial hardship and started spending again.

But a lot of that spending took place online as retailers big and small pushed bargains and coupons to shoppers’ mobile devices and promised in-time shipping even if merchandise was ordered a day before Christmas Eve.

Smaller retailers are also striving to cash in on mobile sales.

For instance, Taigan.com is a new Brentwood-based business that provides an online shopping center for a collection of small boutiques and shops. The company, in business just over a year, already has customers worldwide, and handles sales of specialty products for retailers across the U.S. Continue Reading…

Taigan.com introduces Mona Moore, featuring meticulously selected shoes and handbags

Montreal, Canada – December 14, 2010 – Paris, Milan, New York and now Taigan.com are destinations for runway designer shoes and handbags. Canada and California-based luxury shoe and handbag store Mona Moore debuts online at Taigan.com, the Internet’s best shopping district of online specialty shops, designers and purveyors. Offering the most discerning shoppers a place to find their perfect seasonal must-haves, Mona Moore’s collection is carefully curated to represent beauty, elegance, and style, with a consistently avant-garde sophistication.

Mona Moore is where the dream of style, beauty, elegance and the cutting edge coalesces in a collection of shoes and handbags. Shop among the coveted lines of Balenciaga, Dries Can Noten, Marni and Rick Owens, and see why the shop has been featured in The New York Times, Style Magazine, Vogue Daily, Daily Candy, Lucky Magazine, and Elle.

Specialty retailers like Mona Moore are tapping into Taigan’s hand-picked community of the best shops, brands and products online; styled and edited by Creative Director, Julia Reed.

About Mona Moore and Owners Anna Varriano and Lisa Bush

Anna Varriano and Lisa Bush say it’s the shoes and bags that really make the outfit. They describe their sensibility as “unusual beauty with an edge.” Strong advocates of supporting the old fashioned shoe makers of Italy, the two believe that one pair of Italian made leather boots is worth a million mass produced pairs. With boutiques in Montreal and Venice, California, the store first opened on Montreal’s Golden Mile in the fall of 2002. Anna and Lisa travel to Paris, Milan and New York four times a year to purchase a meticulously edited selection of the best styles from the best designers.
About Taigan

A recent winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.  Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Taigan brings the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure… Taigan delivers an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.

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Clary Sage Organics empowers online shoppers to live healthy, thoughtful and eco-friendly lives thru sustainable fashions and beauty products

Clary Sage Organics has debuted on curated online shopping website Taigan.com. Offering the best organic fashions, sustainable beauty products, and a comprehensive array of natural medicine programs, Clary Sage Organics offers fashionable apparel and wellness products designed to benefit consumers and the planet. Find both Clary Sage Organics Apparel and Clary Sage Organics Wellness – only on Taigan.

Grown and sewn in Northern California, Clary Sage Organics Apparel is made from organic and ecologically sustainable materials, combining feminine styling with delicate lingerie-inspired trims and details. From the yoga studio to the office and about town, each piece is infinitely comfortable, wearable and designed to be an everyday wardrobe essential.

Clary Sage Organics Wellness provides natural health and beauty products, including nutraceuticals and chemical-free skin care products. The shop proves that health and wellness goals can be achieved naturally through effective natural supplements and chemical-free products. Clary Sage Organics provides carefully selected, effective products that address specific health and wellness concerns, eliminating the confusion often surrounding natural medicine and skin care products.

About Clary Sage Organics and Owners Patti Cazzato and Daniel Kalish

Founders Patti Cazzato and Dan Kalish have combined their careers in fashion and green living to create their own organic yoga apparel and wellness collection.

Patti has 20+ years experience as an international retail executive working with brands including Esprit, Gap International and Levi Strauss. Dan’s consulting

practice in natural medicine has been based around an integrative approach to health and healing.

Patti and Dan share a passion for creating a sustainable world for future generations and an enlightened idea of beauty, both inside and out. Clary Sage Organics opened its doors in July of 2008 and has since been featured in the likes of Lucky Magazine, SF Chronicle, Sundance Channel, and more. Clary Sage Organics has shops located in San Francisco, Malibu and New York City.
About Taigan

A recent winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.  Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Taigan brings the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure… Taigan delivers an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.

For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.

Cyber Monday was the icing on the cake for Taigan.com’s already record-breaking month of November. The hunt started here for hundreds of specialty retail shoppers looking for holiday gifts this past Cyber Monday.

Taigan was part of what comScore called a “Billion Dollar Bonanza” as Cyber Monday sales surpassed $1 billion. That’s up 16 percent from a year ago and represents the heaviest online spending day in history, with sales passing the billion-dollar mark for the first time.

Taigan has created such a buzz on the specialty retail shopping scene leading up to Cyber Monday that the local print and broadcast media came calling on Taigan CEO, Elizabeth Nichols, looking for her thoughts on the popular online shopping day.

It’s certainly no surprise that consumers looking for specialty retail items swarmed the site on Cyber Monday. Perhaps most encouraging is that the month of October and November were so significantly up for the curated shopping site. “We were thrilled to offer our shoppers free shipping on Cyber Monday. However, we have seen significant shopping throughout the last two months, regardless of promotion – by both loyal and new shoppers..,” says Nichols.

Nichols attributes the buzz to a combination of shopper optimism, the addition of over 30 new shops to the site in the past two months, and to significant recent media attention.

From being named Best of the Web for gifts by InStyle Magazine, to winning the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and recently awarded Technology Start-up of the Year accolade, Taigan is recognized by retailers, consumers and industry media as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.

“With the addition of 30 specialty retailers and designers in the last two months, shoppers now recognize that we continue to locate the best of the best, to showcase on the site,” Nichols explains. “While our retailer standards for acceptance onto Taigan remain especially high, we are being approached by more fantastic retailers and designers every week, and will continue to these great retailers, designers and craftsmen as we find them.”

Early reports claim Taigan’s November sales grew in excess of 200 percent over the previous month, and represent the strongest month in the site’s 13-month history.

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Online Shoppers Looking for Unique or Specialty Gifts Are Shopping at Taigan.com; Named Best of the Web 2010 for Gifts by InStyle Magazine.

Taigan announces its 2010 most unique holiday gift ideas designed to top the list of online boutique shoppers. Online shoppers looking for the unique and original turn to the web address Taigan.com; a marketplace of 88 independent specialty retailers and growing from places across the United States and abroad. Taigan and its shops have been recognized by Elle Décor, Departures magazine and The New York Times.

Taigan celebrates the holidays in style by offering some cost-accessible unique gifts in a variety of categories:

Home/Entertaining:

Match Pewter Martini Glasses: http://www.taigan.com/shops/themercantile/videos/536/items/3774

Speckled Green Glass Wine Cooler: http://www.taigan.com/shops/digs/items/11898

Waylande Gregory Gold Extra Small Zebra Bowl: http://www.taigan.com/shops/elementschicago/items/13131

William Yeoward Country Funnel: http://www.taigan.com/shops/hollyhock/items/2230

Horn and Sterling Silver Salad Servers: http://www.taigan.com/shops/imperiojp/items/12336

Small Orange Lizard Keepsake Box: http://www.taigan.com/shops/nibahome/items/9073

Horn Photo Frame: http://www.taigan.com/shops/nibahome/items/9059

Bamboo Pate Knife: http://www.taigan.com/shops/themercantile/videos/703/items/8801

Food & Wine

The Flock Box Wine Sampler: http://www.taigan.com/shops/blackbirdvineyards/videos/965/items/12844

Very Merry Holiday Macaroons: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sucre/items/2558

Wine For All Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/wineforall/items/11874

Tea for Two Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/partnerstea/items/12039

Chocolate and Cheese Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/stjamescheese/items/12795

Everyday Honey Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/savannahbee/items/11785

Blackberry Breakfast Gift Box: http://www.taigan.com/shops/blackberryfarm/items/12573

Misc. Gifts

Pink Tweed Dog Coat: http://www.taigan.com/shops/comesitstay/items/10633

Modern Alchemy Candle Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sanctuaryofstyle/items/12141

Wooden Horse Ornament: http://www.taigan.com/shops/andgeorge/items/12724

Diptyque John Galliano Paris Candle: http://www.taigan.com/shops/revival/items/4667

Perdomo Habano Toro: http://www.taigan.com/shops/rslipmancigarandsmokeshop/items/9929

Orla Kiely Laptop Skin: http://www.taigan.com/shops/starprovisions/items/9520

Black Leather Studded iPhone Case: http://www.taigan.com/shops/churchboutique/items/12237

Children’s Pom Pom Hat: http://www.taigan.com/shops/shopodile/items/12927

Glass Egg Ornament: http://www.taigan.com/shops/digs/items/13377

Women’s

Tocca Eau De Parfum Touch: http://www.taigan.com/shops/wooskincareandcosmetics/items/7914

Elizabeth and James Feather Earrings: http://www.taigan.com/shops/elementschicago/items/9817

Sam Edelman Novato Heel: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sanctuaryofstyle/items/12627

Simple Bronze Necklace: http://www.taigan.com/shops/gabrielle/items/13597

Travel Essential Brush Collection: http://www.taigan.com/shops/29cosmetics/items/10105

Trina Turk Jewel Encrusted Ring

http://www.taigan.com/shops/gavin/items/9728

Quill and Hand-Beaded Earrings: http://www.taigan.com/shops/rodeo/items/13658

Men’s

100% Silk Bow Tie: http://www.taigan.com/shops/peterelliot/items/6801

Tortoise Shaving Brush: http://www.taigan.com/shops/aidangill/items/7150

Filson Tan Travel Kit: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sidmashburn/videos/317/items/1810

Brass Oyster Belt Buckle: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sidmashburn/items/3222

Scrabble Cufflinks: http://www.taigan.com/shops/aidangill/items/7230

About Taigan

A recent winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors. Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.

For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.

Chicago’s most charming and chic new destination for children’s wear has a new online shop among Taigan’s carefully curated collection of shops.

Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique, named Chicago Magazine’s “Best New Children’s Boutique” for 2010, is now online at Taigan.com, the Internet’s best shopping district of online specialty shops, designers and purveyors. From its posh location in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Odile has been recognized as the leading source of imported heirloom and classic children’s apparel and accessories from around the world, bringing classic, well-crafted children’s wear back into style. Elegant, simple-yet-luxuriously-produced pieces that will be the signature outfits for your little ones.

With the introduction of Odile’s online store on Taigan, now shoppers can visit a chic new destination for charming children’s wear from the comfort of their own home. Odile’s mantra is to dress children like children, celebrate tradition, quality construction and deliver exceptional customer service.

Specialty retailers like Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique are tapping into Taigan’s turnkey e-commerce solution to be part a hand-picked community of the best shops, brands and products online; styled and edited by Creative Director, Julia Reed.

About Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique and Owner Camille Cozzini
Odile provides a welcoming sanctuary in the heart of Chicago’s posh Gold Coast. Open for only a year, Odile has already cemented itself as the epitome of a high-end children’s clothing store. The perfect place to outfit stylish little ladies and gents in such labels as Le Nouveau, Chupeta and La Stupenderia, it’s easy to see why it was named Chicago Magazine’s “Best New Children’s Boutique” for 2010.

About Taigan
A recent winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors. Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Taigan brings the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure… Taigan delivers an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.

For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.