Greeting Card specialist, Blue Eyed Sun, has signed a distribution deal with design-led German company, Chic Mic, to distribute the BambooCup, SlideCup and BambooFriends brands of lifestyle giftware in the UK. BambooCup is a beautiful range of eco-friendly, reusable coffee cups which had a fantastic response with buyers at Spring Fair. “We have been working
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Fiona Young is the product designer at Southfield Ltd, a family run Giftware business based in Scotland which has been trading for over 40 years, designing and making all products in-house. The Terribly Posh and Dead posh bespoke range has been popping up all over the UK in independent gift shops. Retailers who share their
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Alan Monahan writes: Like me, I’m sure that many of you have been niggled by the constant media references – BBC Breakfast is a repeat offender – to failing retail outlets being on the high street, when they are clearly not. So I punched the air in approval when I read a letter in the
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A new report released by Textlocal, one of the UK’s leading SMS platforms, reveals that mobile opportunities are set to revolutionise the industry as operators increasingly embrace the SMS platform to help drive activity and integration. It was found that 59% of the UK’s digital buyers make their purchases on mobile devices and the scale
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The former head of Wickes, Iceland, Booker and Focus DIY, Bill Grimsey, has reopened the Grimsey Review of British retail, following on from his first research mission, published in 2013. Grimsey’s clarion call for the high street was partly triggered by the collapse of Toys R Us and Maplin as multiples wrestle with daunting new
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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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