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Walk the coastal path at Giving & Living

With its prime location at Westpoint in Exeter, Giving & Living is renowned for being the leading show in the UK for coastal gifts and souvenirs, unique on the exhibition circuit for its dedicated Coastal Path.

This makes it an essential show for retail and hospitality businesses that are located close to tourist hotspots and want to fully tap into the tourist trade in those areas.

Whether it's puffin art prints or seascape greetings cards, seashell jewellery, driftwood sculptures or souvenirs, the Coastal Path at Giving & Living will reveal a treasure trove of brands and products, many of which are unique to the show, due to run from Sunday 12th - Tuesday 14th January.

Posted: 28 October 2024

Spring Fair wants your stories!

Spring Fair, the UK's largest home, gift, fashion trade show which celebrates its 75th anniversary on the 2nd – 5th February 2025 at NEC Birmingham, needs your help to bring together a Hall of Fame compilation of nostalgic memories, pictures and great stories from the show's 75-year history.

The Hall of Fame will be brought to life at Spring Fair, offering the show's community the chance to reminisce and remember seven decades of its history as well as a snapshot of memorable past events and current affairs between 1950 - 2024. The show's timeline, a large digital screen of pictures and stories, and a selfie wall to capture the industry's biggest trade show gathering in 2025, will create a celebration of retail's past and present.

Posted: 25 October 2024

Spring Fair launches anniversary Retail Insights podcast

Spring Fair, the UK's largest home, gift, fashion trade show which takes place on the 2nd – 5th February 2025 at NEC Birmingham, has launched a new Retail Insights podcast series for retail, and by retail, to celebrate its upcoming 75th anniversary and shine a light on businesses in the industry.

A first of its kind for a retail trade show, Spring Fair has collaborated with the legendary designer and TV personality Jeff Banks CBE to create the series of free podcasts featuring interviews with 15 industry figureheads which will run over a period of 14 weeks from the 20th October.

Posted: 15 October 2024

Campaign to drive footfall and spend in UK and Irish high streets recognised at top industry awards

Fintech Miconex picked up the award for Best Creative Marketing Campaign for its end of term campaign at the Gift Card & Voucher Association Hall of Fame awards held on 12th September in London.

A commitment to driving footfall and spend in UK and Irish towns and cities through creative marketing was the driver for Miconex collecting an award at the recent Gift Card & Voucher Association Hall of Fame awards.

Miconex received the Best Creative Marketing Campaign award for their end of term campaign delivered across its network of over 80 Town & City Gift Card programmes in the UK and Ireland, including Scotland Loves Local Gift Cards delivered alongside Scotland's Towns Partnership. The local gift cards lock spend into local communities by encouraging 'shop local'.

Posted: 3 October 2024

London Packaging Week unveils pioneering Innovation Award winners

London Packaging Week is thrilled to unveil the winners of its inaugural Innovation Awards, sponsored by Fedrigoni, celebrating groundbreaking advancements in packaging across various categories. This year's awards recognise exceptional design, creativity, and sustainability in packaging solutions.

In a collaboration with Aston Martin, Bowmore has crafted a decanter that is as much a work of art as it is a vessel for this exceptional whisky. The design takes inspiration from the Japanese metalworking technique 'Mokume-Gane,' known for its unique layered patterns. This technique has been reimagined through layered carbon fibre sheets, creating the decanter's distinctive Mokume lid. The result is a lid that evokes a futuristic aesthetic and mirrors the natural black rocks of Loch Indaal, the home of the Bowmore Distillery.

Posted: 30 September 2024

Poetic Brands to develop apparel and accessories range for upcoming Wicked film

Poetic Brand has announced that it has partnered with Universal Products & Experiences to design, manufacture and distribute a wide range of Wicked-inspired product.

From adults' and kids' apparel to luggage and bags – in the UK market celebrating the two-part, gravity-defying, generation-defining cinematic event.

A comprehensive range of daywear will include tops, skirts, trousers, leggings, dresses, coats, jackets and outerwear. There will also be pyjama sets, including toddlers' and/or children's pyjamas packaged together with adult pyjamas, along with a range of sportswear, swimming costumes, bikinis and swimming shorts.

Rounding off this impressive collection, Poetic will be developing Wicked-inspired bags and luggage. All designs will adapt the colourful style and imagery of the Land of Oz from the film to a visually stunning range.

Posted: 24 September 2024

INDX Shows go national; reveals exciting plans for 2025

INDX is back and better than ever. Expect a calendar packed with buying focused events, a fresh market approach, and a completely revamped look and feel. Plus, a new website and revamped brand identity.

The following events will proudly claim National titles starting in 2025: INDX Kids becomes the INDX National Kidswear Show, INDX Man becomes the INDX National Menswear Show and INDX Intimate Apparel becomes the INDX National Intimate Apparel Show.

The following event titles have been revamped to better reflect the inclusivity and diversity of their product showcases: INDX Homewares becomes INDX Home, INDX Beds & Bedroom becomes INDX Beds, and INDX Toy & Gift becomes INDX Toys, while INDX Furniture, INDX Woman, INDX Sports & Leisure, and INDX Gift Food show titles remain unchanged.

Posted: 12 September 2024

Top Drawer presents a ‘Whirlwind of Change’ with the opening of its A/W24 show

Top Drawer, the UK's premier design-led buying event, opened its doors for the A/W season yesterday. Welcoming buyers and store owners to embrace the 'whirlwind of change' that is the current retail climate. This edition showcases more than 500 exhibiting brands across the most in-demand lifestyle sectors.

The show's flagship sectors–Home, Gift, Greetings & Stationery, Play, Craft, Fashion, Food Emporium and Wellbeing–are complimented by Launchpad, a presentation of emerging brands from across all sectors who are new to the market.

Event Director, David Westbrooke said: "Top Drawer has a long, proud legacy of presenting store owners and buyers with products that will set their offering apart from the rest, and resonate with their customers."

Posted: 9 September 2024

The Gift Fair Launches its Future Star Award

The Gift Fair is thrilled to launch its Future Star Award. This award celebrates newcomers with exceptional potential to the UK Gift industry.

This award will provide a launchpad for talented entrepreneurs to show off their wonderful products in way they might not otherwise have the opportunity to.

This year, we were spoilt for choice so two wonderful companies have been selected, it was just too hard to pick one! The Gift Fair Future Star awards go to Cheeky Legends www.arrthi.com for their colourful and cheeky greetings cards and Little Roglets www.littleroglets.com for their beautifully painted animal collection.

Cheeky Legends was created by Arrthi Little, a cartoonist based in Hampshire creating entertaining characters in her signature style 'Cute, Chubby, Cheeky'.

Posted: 4 September 2024

New online gift tradeshow set to launch in 2025

The Gift Fair is an online gift tradeshow, set to take place from January 8th- February 28th, 2025.

Organised by Fabian Santoro and his team, this exciting platform hosts trade shows that work around you not the other way around. The platform is not like anything you've seen before – it's not a website, directory or meeting scheduler. Every aspect is designed to make trade shows faster, cheaper, easier and better. You can speak to real people in real time via instant messaging, video chat, exchange business cards and much more.

You can find established brands like Professor Puzzle, LifeCharms and Swing Cards as well as the hottest newcomers like Cosmic Cuties and BangoBerry.

Posted: 2 September 2024