autumn

Autumn focuses on ‘essential ceremonies’

When it comes to festive decorations, specialist retailers have four big trend worlds at their disposal for the 2019/20 season: tender festivities, essential ceremonies, sweet traditions and luminous celebrations. But how can the Christmasworld trends be applied to festivals and seasons in concrete terms? Designer Claudia Herke from Stilbüro bora.herke.palmisano gives tips on the trends

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Retail Reflections: Autumn’s fair face; shopping scams; Black Friday; the weather and sales

Alan Monahan writes: As with my own appearance, the face of Autumn Fair is much changed from the show I first visited more than 20 years ago. But like me, it has managed to keep a spring in its step despite some shrinkage! And while some exhibitors at the NEC were bemoaning the fact that

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Great British Greetings

With the British greeting card market leading the world and still managing to grow, we have no trouble celebrating some of the wonderful independent card designers and illustrators working in the UK. [column size=one_third position=first ][/column][column size=one_third position=middle ][/column][column size=one_third position=last ][/column] Word on the street is up to 70% of shops in the UK

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Retail news round-up

A new Salmon Insights white paper addresses ‘The dominance and threat of Amazon’ and ‘why brands need to start fighting back fast’. It says that with nearly 40% of online UK spend going through Amazon, and clear signals of the retail giant’s intent to own the interfaces that connect sectors to their customers, savvy businesses

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