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Surveys

Operational SurveysSurveys

Dive Retailers and Airfills

The Operational Surveys in the March 2005 and May 2007 editions of Dive Center Business were conducted to determine pricing and attitudes about airfill stations in the business of dive retailers. It's been a while, and we thought it would…
Mark Young
September 25, 2014
Surveys

A Look at the Numbers

The Operational Survey for this edition is our annual report on the number of stores that opened and closed the last five years. It's never good when our industry loses a dive store. Each number represents the loss of someone's…
Mark Young
April 11, 2014
Operational SurveysSurveys

Location, Location

|image4|To someone outside of our industry, the distribution of dive retailers in the United States would be surprising. They might guess correctly that there are lots of stores in the southern coastal areas but be surprised by the amount of…
Mark Young
March 7, 2009