American Greetings Corp has received a private offer led by CEO Zev Weiss and his brother the chief operating officer Jeffrey Weiss, to buy the company for over $580 million. The bidding group, which also includes other investors and members of the executives’ families, is seeking to acquire all the common stock in American Greetings
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Retailers reported a slight rise in sales volumes in the year to September, along with the expectation that growth will strengthen somewhat next month, the CBI reported in its latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey covered the first two weeks in September, when 33% of retailers reported that sales volumes were up on a
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Independent retailer Terry Harvey, who runs a number of greetings/gift stores in the south of England, has launched a new company, Brabunny, selling the product brand endorsed by Cancer Research UK, with the goal of raising money for breast cancer research. Brabunny stocks a range of fine greetings cards produced under license by The Great
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Just in time for Christmas 2012, renowned British jewellery brand Lola Rose has introduced its first bath and body collection, specially formulated with the unique energy of Amethyst for precious results. The range will be distributed by Heathcote & Ivory. Amethyst extract, renowned for relaxing and balancing effects, has been combined with luxury extracts of
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When wrapping flowers or fresh produce – as with the artichoke pictured here – use brown paper (available from East of India) and finish with 2 shades of wired ribbon to give a luxurious finish (available at Jane Means). You will only need approx. 50cm per length of ribbon.
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The Giftware Association (GA) has got behind the ‘Celebrate an Independent Christmas’ initiative to encourage shoppers to buy from local independents rather than multiples in a six-week long campaign from November 12 until Christmas Day. The campaign is a nationwide effort to improve footfall to high streets, towns and village centres; to increase consumer confidence,
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