The Giftware Association has announced the exciting news that top TV impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner will host the awards ceremony being held on Sunday February 4 at The Vox, part of the Resorts World entertainment complex, located adjacent to The NEC. Rory will be there to announce the winners and provide top-class entertainment all
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The UK’s biggest high-end Christmas shopping event, the Spirit of Christmas Fair returns to London’s Olympia for its 17th year October 30 – November 5. Visitors can uncover the most extraordinary gifts with the unrivaled collections of 800 independent boutiques, all hand-picked by the Spirit of Christmas Fair gifting experts. There’s something for everyone
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Having started out at farmers’ markets around Ireland seven years ago, The Handmade Soap Company is making the jump across the Irish Sea to the UK. Handmade in the charming Meath countryside, this ethical home fragrance, bath, body and skincare brand’s products don’t compromise on quality. Everything it makes is 99.7% natural, and free of
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Ambiente is laying a foundation for a dynamic international trading season – with the Netherlands as a partner country, an innovative Business Matchmaking Programme, a Point of Experience and B2B platforms for contract business. From 9 to 13 February the 2018 edition of Ambiente will deliver a large number of market stimuli and provide information
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Up to the minute research by the Local Data Company (LDC) and the British Independent Retailers Association (bira) shows that traditional independent shops opened significantly more shops than in the same period last year, whilst the national chains (with more than five stores nationally) continued to see a fall. Key growth sectors have been
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Alan Monahan writes: Good retailers will know that customers crave innovation – and new findings by Salmon Insights confirms it, with 60% of people preferring to purchase from a ‘digitally innovative retailer’ and a quarter of us now identifying as ‘digitally obsessive’. However, a closer look at the research suggests that consumers desire innovations
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