Contemporary home, gift and fashion brand, Shruti, formerly known as Junction 18, has been acquired by specialist licensed gift and home company, Half Moon Bay, in a deal announced at the Harrogate Home & Gift show. The acquisition covers Shruti’s customer list, full product range, warehousing, offices, showrooms and operations for Shruti, which will continue
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The Best Small Shops Competition celebrates the commitment and creativity of entrepreneurial independent retailers on the UK’s High Streets and the central role they play in building local communities. In the current retail landscape many corporate retailers are struggling, but independent retailers have the opportunity to fill this gap by offering customers specialist knowledge, products
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Last year online retail sales were up 12.1% on average year-on-year, but it can be difficult for buyers and sellers to know where to begin in the huge online marketplace that includes vast ecommerce businesses like Amazon, Alibaba and eBay. To help inform and inspire where to begin, Journalistic.org recommends some online marketplace alternatives. To
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The home and gift industry has become adept at creating vibrant, trend-making products based on various fauna and flora. Pineapples and flamingos have been ubiquitous at shows and contemporary gift stores for practically forever, whilst toucans and other tropical creatures have been holding the fort since the Rio Olympic games. As the scorching
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Alan Monahan writes: I was on the way home from Harrogate when I realised that the sharp, stabbing pain in my lower back signalled that I would probably be forced to make a hasty return. Confirmation came quickly. Stopping the car and fishing in my back pocket I found my hotel room key. Stupid boy!
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June’s good weather resulted in a marginal year-on-year improvement in footfall across the nation’s high streets, delivering the second month of consecutive growth since November 2017. However, retail parks and shopping centres have had ‘an altogether more difficult time’. The overall trend of fewer visits to bricks and mortar stores remains, said British Retail Consortium
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