Expert retail advice from Vivid Wrap founder Steve Williams, who shares 5 Key Ways to Maximize your Gift Packaging Sales this Christmas Season. Did you know that over 30% of annual gift packaging sales at retail are in the first three weeks of December? So firstly, and most importantly: 1. Make sure you have the
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A Distressed Retail Property Taskforce has been set up to help rejuvenate the UK’s struggling town centres as online shopping threatens to make high streets ‘little more than showrooms’ according the Economist Intelligence Unit*. Its first priority will be to tackle the issue of retail property debt and the spectre of empty, run-down shops in
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Budget greetings card retailer Card Factory has reported that pre-tax profits were up just 1% in the year to January 31 after a 56 per cent increase the year before. The company put this down to its absorption of the VAT rise from 17.5% – 20% in January 2011, rather than passing on the extra
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Retailers reported a slight rise in sales volumes in the year to September, along with the expectation that growth will strengthen somewhat next month, the CBI reported in its latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey covered the first two weeks in September, when 33% of retailers reported that sales volumes were up on a
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The Giftware Association (GA) has got behind the ‘Celebrate an Independent Christmas’ initiative to encourage shoppers to buy from local independents rather than multiples in a six-week long campaign from November 12 until Christmas Day. The campaign is a nationwide effort to improve footfall to high streets, towns and village centres; to increase consumer confidence,
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Autumn Fair International 2012 proved to be a strong retail exhibition showcase despite wider economic challenges that have seen the high street struggling over the summer. The show attracted considerably more department store buyers (up 28%) and other big budget visitors compared with the 2011 show. First class product selection, improved content and enhanced feature
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