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On June 12th, NWI.com, the most trusted media company in Northwest Indiana, featured an article, Playing it safe and having fun (www.nwitimes.com/ news/ local/ porter/ valparaiso/ article_f896ddc1-2ebd-5ad3-8c4e-c1a306389faf.html) , about BellaBoo's Children's Play & Discovery Center, a project our company designed and produced in Lake Station, Indiana for the Lake Country Parks & Recreation Department. Excerpts from the article include:
"BellaBoo's takes child's play to a whole new level by providing fun self-directed play in a safe atmosphere where children from infants through 9 years old can explore, create and interact.
"BellaBoo's has taken each room and filled it with colorful, imaginative educational milieu especially proportioned for 'little hands'.
To read the entire article, click here (www.nwitimes.com/ news/ local/ porter/ valparaiso/ article_f896ddc1-2ebd-5ad3-8c4e-c1a306389faf.html) .
The June 13th Sioux Falls Business Journal featured a story, Businesses cash in on need for fun (www.argusleader.com/ apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID=2011110712087) , that quoted Randy White, our CEO, as an entertainment and retail-tainment expert. Here are two excepts from the story:
"The customer experience has become a more acute focus for retailers, according to Randy White, CEO of Kansas City-based White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group, which consults for entertainment venues worldwide.
“We're moving from a service-based economy to people looking for experiences,” White said. "We're seeing a strong trend in the retail industry. It started about a decade ago, but the recession greatly accelerated it. Stuff has less importance to people now. They don't go to malls based upon selling stuff. You need to offer experiences.”
To read the entire story, click here (www.argusleader.com/ apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID=2011110712087) .
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