{"id":1098,"date":"2012-02-08T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:23:14","slug":"caroline-showalter-hipple-77-oversees-companys-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/caroline-showalter-hipple-77-oversees-companys-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Showalter Hipple &#8217;77 oversees company&#8217;s expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of retrenchment, stories of expansion stand out: <strong>Caroline Showalter Hipple \u201977<\/strong>, for example, who as president of Altanta-based Storehouse, Inc., a furniture retailer, has overseen a nearly 80 percent growth in profits over the past ten years. In 2010, according to <em>Intown<\/em> (Atlanta, Ga., 9\/22\/11), Hipple was named entrepreneur of the year by <em>Catalog Success<\/em> magazine. Hipple attributes at least part of the company\u2019s success to being attuned to \u201cthe soul of the person who is buying these products\u2026It\u2019s economically more profitable to care,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s emotionally harder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Showalter Hipple &#8217;77 has overseen a nearly 80 percent growth in Atlanta-based Storehouse, Inc.&#8217;s profits over the past ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumnae_connections","tag-winter-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}