Independent gift shops are driving a big increase in the sale of candles, according to a report from retail software company Vend. Its data reveals that sales spike on Mother’s Day and over the festive period and that Brits are buying an average of six candles a year at £7.40 a time. ‘Consumers have been
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Alan Monahan writes: It has never occurred to me to enter a shop and ask for a discount. I have concluded that there must be something in my psyche that stops me from doing it. But while I am not prepared to haggle in-store over, say, a lampshade, I’m perfectly happy to try to negotiate
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Thirteen companies scooped IHA Global Innovation Awards for Product Design held during the 2019 International Home and Housewares Show at McCormick Place in Chicago. These include: Bath and Personal Care category: Easy Reach, LLC, Easy ReachCleaning category: Fusionbrands LLC, BendItBrushCook and Bakeware category: IPAC S.P.A., Panboo – 8” CasseroleHome Décor and Gifts category: Sagaform, Inc.,
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Specialist multiple stationery retailer, Ryman, which operates from more than 200 stores in the UK, is the first retailer to endorse its partnership with the annual National Stationery Week campaign running from April 29 – May 5. Boasting over 120 years’ worth of knowledge in the stationery world, Ryman’s expert product insight and variation of
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Specialist stationery and greeting card retailer, Paperchase, has formally launched a CVA following weeks of speculation. The company, which is owned by private equity firm, Primary Capital had already appointed KPMG at the start of this year to help it find a way forward. Five of the company’s stores are expected to close but for
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The housing, communities and local government select committee of MPs has warned that business rates are ‘stacking the odds’ against high street shops and called for the government to provide ‘meaningful’ relief from the tax to retailers and consider an online sales tax to ‘level the playing field’. Responding, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the
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