As featured in KDHamptons.com

KDH STYLE ALERT!

Famed American fabric designer Quadrille has introduced a chic new women’s apparel and accessory line with their coveted fabrics! Check out their colorful tunics, swimsuits, shift dresses and swim trunks for the guys that Hamptonites will love. If you are already familiar with Quadrille fabrics you won’t be surprised that the prices aren’t exactly inexpensive, but KDH will definitely be hanging poolside in the Navy Nairobi tunic! LOVE!
*Shop the collection at www.TAIGAN.com

http://www.kdhamptons.com/love-quadrille-fabrics-for-your-home-now-you-can-wear-them-on-the-beach/

Award-winning online shopping destination Taigan.com partners with advertising technology innovator edō Interactive to provide its retailers with access to high-end shoppers.

New York – August 10, 2011 – Noted e-commerce website TAIGAN.com (Tahy’ gn) and advertising technology company EDO Interactive, Inc. today announced a new partnership.  The relationship will provide Taigan’s hand-selected shops, designers and purveyors with the opportunity to access high-end shoppers leveraging edo Interactive’s Prewards® platform.

Taigan provides a turnkey e-commerce and marketing solution for selected retailers and designers, complete with the web-based tools and technology to brand, open and operate their own e-commerce site within Taigan.com.  The site deftly leverages the collective power of its retailers, recently garnering significant media coverage and enjoying a rapidly growing global shopping audience.  Touted by Entrepreneur magazine as one of “100 Brilliant Companies”, EDO Interactive partners with banks and payment card issuers to deliver targeted incentives on behalf of retailers seeking to increase qualified traffic and sales.   The partnership between Taigan and EDO Interactive further enhances Taigan’s offering to its participating retailers and designers.

The new partnership will provide Taigan retailers with the ability to leverage EDO Interactive’s Prewards® platform to create specific offers and incentives, that will be presented to a highly targeted group of consumers, via EDO Interactive’s banking and payment card partners.

“We are excited to deliver another way by which our Taigan stores can expand their customer base and increase sales both in-store and on Taigan.com.  We believe that EDO and Taigan (and our related “communities”) will be beneficiaries of this alliance, and look forward to delivering this initiative to the marketplace,” stated Elizabeth Nichols, CEO of Taigan.com.

“We are very pleased to partner with Taigan,” said Ed Braswell, Founder and CEO of EDO Interactive. “EDO and Taigan share common goals of building a quality merchant network and delivering an unmatched consumer experience. Together, we will be in a stronger position to achieve our shared goals.”

ABOUT TAIGAN

Named for the prized breed of hunting dog from Kyrgyzstan that tirelessly hunts for the best game its master desires, Taigan.com is the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.  Launched in late 2009, the e-commerce website has been celebrated by fashion editors and high-end consumers, and has reported 350% year over year growth.  Taigan is touted as the only lifestyle e-commerce site featuring specialty retailers and designers in 11 categories, including of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, sporting life, gourmet food and wine, and fine gifts. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure, Taigan presents an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  .

ABOUT EDO INTERACTIVE

EDO Interactive is a leader in digital and mobile advertising solutions, leveraging everyday payment networks to connect brands with consumers.  EDO’s Prewards® marketing platform employs advanced analytics and loyalty solutions to create value for consumers, brand advertisers and financial institutions. For more information, please visit www.edointeractive.com.

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Life & Culture –> Food & Drink

Bits & Bites: News You Can Eat   THE MEAT – Pigging In

Rancher-butcher Preston Correll raises grass-fed, antibiotic-and-steroid-free cows, pigs and poultry (including eggs) on his Kentucky spreads. We were lucky enough to taste his livestock at a recent dinner party where chef Soa Davies made a divine pâté from the chickens’ livers, killer tacos from the ground beef and mushrooms stuffed with the pork sausage. The cuts came from Correll’s Marksbury Farm Market, a co-op slaughterhouse, processing facility and butcher shop, founded last year by the meat man, his wife and his like-minded collective. Sharpen your knives: As of this week, Marksbury’s juicy pork chops ($5 for each ¾-pound chop), and even a whole hog (from $850, artisan-eviscerated into multiple parts), can be purchased online. taigan.com

—Charlotte Druckman

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576482644061592356.html

F. Correll's livestock - Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas Preston

September 2011

New+Next / Market

WEB WATCH                     taigan.com

A unique e-boutique

Less is more when it comes to this online shopping emporium, a collection of carefully chosen high-end shops available at one Web address. House of Lavande vintage jewelry, Ann Koerner Antiques, and Sucre of New Orleans are just a few of the specialty retailers (taigan.com).

THE BEST OF BOUTIQUES

“We are defined by who we say no to,” says Elizabeth Nichols, CEO of Taigan, an ecommerce site that hosts some of the most amazing boutiques from around the country–boutiques that might not otherwise be accessible outside of the brick and mortar store. When Taigan, appropriately meaning a breed of Canine from Kyrgyzstan “known for its tenacity to find the best game for its master,” launched in 2009, Nichols estimates that there was a three percent acceptance rate from all of the retailers who reached out to them.

Since then, the offerings on the site have grown to more than 100 vendors in 11 categories–from fine jewelry to cigars. “The small stores needed a big voice,” says Nichols, who draws her experience from 20 years spent developing shopping centers. “If you put one store in the middle of the world wide web it won’t get any more traction than if you build a little store in the middle of a field.” Now with their re-launch–including a newly curated landing page–they also plan on introducing 8-12 stores each month. Though no store makes the page without a rigorous evaluation, from combing through the stock to seeing how they are packaged and shipped. Nichols even physically visits every store and is constantly seeking out new locations on her travels. As she puts it: “We are on a hunt.”

http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/editorsblog/2011/08/08/taigan-ecommerce.htm#ixzz1UTYZmHTp