This weekend the industry will gather at one of the world’s most important trade events, which brings several key sectors together under one roof at Messe Frankfurt, Germany. Paperworld, Creativeworld, Christmasworld and Floradecora are the dream team for the start of the season, taking place from 27 – 31 January. Across 17 exhibition halls,
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Did you see that Mary Portas will be at Spring Fair to tell buyers how they can tackle the challenges facing independent retailers? I wonder if she’ll come up with anything that we haven’t heard before. Although this particular “retail expert” has sometimes been associated with government – you’ll remember her independent review, The
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I wonder how many retailers at Top Drawer this week will be searching for UK-made products. If you’re one of them, I’m sure you won’t be alone. The falling pound and the threat of rising inflation following the Brexit vote will see buyers looking for the biggest bang they can get for their buck from
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Christmas footfall magnified the 2016 trend of “a modest bounce back of the high street alongside a slowing of growth out of town and a downward slide in shopping centre activity”, according to the Springboard* 2016 Christmas Footfall Review. Retail sales declined overall but to a lesser degree than last year, whilst the rise
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How was it for you? I’m talking about Christmas trading. Earlier this week, if newspaper headlines were to be believed, retailers had suffered a pretty torrid time in the run-up to the end of the year – and things hadn’t got any better going into 2017. Then, on Tuesday January 10, the British Retail Consortium
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We’re heading into that time of year when the buying really begins for the majority of retailers. Christmas is still to come and yet in less than a month festive stock will have been cleared and the trade will be looking to the next round of exhibitions for merchandising inspiration. Up and down the
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