Trends

2025 Festive Trends

October 8, 2025 No Comments

The seasons have well and truly turned into autumn and up and down the nation gift, home and garden retailers are planning festive shop windows,

BDA London is Autumn Fair Trend partner

August 17, 2025 No Comments

Autumn Fair has announced that BDA London is its official trend partner, bringing an exclusive preview of the key trends set to shape Autumn/Winter 2026/27.

Gale Astley writes: Hip To Be Square

February 20, 2025 No Comments

Giddy for gingham or tender for tartan, plaid and chequerboard have cornered greeting card designs in 2025. From the bonny Highlands to Dorothy on the

Spring Fair partners with Trendhub

January 24, 2025 No Comments

Spring Fai (2nd – 5th February 2025, NEC Birmingham) has partnered with leading trend agency BDA London and their smart forecasting service Trendhub to deliver

Colour your Lives at showUP

December 23, 2024 No Comments

The 2025 edition of the premiere BeNeLux region exhibition, showUP will include an exciting new feature called colourUP, emphasising the key colour trends and themes

True Joy: Dulux Colour of the Year 2025

October 25, 2024 No Comments

The colour supremos at Dulux have made the vivid yellow, True Joy, their colour of the year for 2025. The inspiration was the Co’lour Futures

RHS endorses Tapestry, a new Ca’ Pietra porcelain paving design

May 6, 2026

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced its endorsement of Tapestry, a new porcelain paving design from Ca’ Pietra, its licensee for outdoor paving. Placing

Retailers fall into the AI ‘Integrator’ stage as pilots outpace readiness

May 5, 2026

Retailers are investing growing amounts of time and money into artificial intelligence, but early insights suggest they could be getting stuck in a risky middle

The Giftware Association Quarterly Pulse Survey

April 28, 2026

The Giftware Association has launched a new Quarterly Pulse Survey called Giftware Unwrapped, designed to give the UK gift and home industry a stronger, clearer

How Scottish Landscapes Are Changing the Way Independent Retailers Display Art

April 28, 2026

Independent retailers across the UK are rethinking how they present artwork. Traditional gallery walls and static displays lost their pull. Shoppers now expect visual storytelling

UKPackaging Expo 2026 unfolds

April 22, 2026

The second edition of UKPackaging Expo is set to unfold on November 10th and 11th 2026 at the Convention Centre at KingsDock, Liverpool. It follows

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