Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring budget was meant to squash the doom and gloom and present a picture of hope for the British economy, with a forecast that envisaged more growth coupled with less inflation and debt in the year ahead. For the retail sector his March 13 speech set a new date of 2021 for […]
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Purple Pomegranate Press is a small independent publishing company which was set up in June last year by artist Elspeth Tavaci. Its beautifully illustrated little story books are a greeting card and a gift all in one. Elspeth takes up her story: “I grew up in Yorkshire and the ginnels, the mills, the old stone
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LEGO® botanical elements such as leaves, bushes and trees will be made from plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane in the future and will appear in LEGO boxes already in 2018. “At the LEGO Group we want to make a positive impact on the world around us, and are working hard to make great play products
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The failure of Maplin, New Look and Toys ‘R’ Us in the UK came in the wake of a dire year for multiple store closures, with every region except Yorkshire and Humber seeing closures in 2017. As multiple stores (characterised as brands with more than five stores nationally) closed their doors, independents have emerged as
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Alan Monahan writes: If you run a small independent gift shop I’m sure you’ll have some customers who envy what you do. They figure that if you pass the time of day with nice people, selling them pretty things, it’s not a bad way to earn a living. They don’t know the half of it,
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