Adding to the news for retailers that Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget is halving business rates for another year (though the devil is in the detail!), is the good news that Progressive Greetings’ October edition is now available to read online!
Bound to ‘rate’ highly is the News section which is crammed full of industry happenings, from Card Factory’s plans to open another 100 stores to Kantar’s findings that high street card retailers are clawing back sales from online. (click to pages 14-15)
PG columnists are up to their usual tricks and treats of prompting reactions from readers. While over worked indie, David Robertson of JP Pozzi has accepted that sometimes you just have to say “no” to things (click to pages 22-23), Cardsharp ponders on the ‘game of musical chairs’ as large retailers shift their category managers and the ramifications as a result. (Click to pages 24-25).
It really was ‘musical chairs’ at the recent GCA Dragons’ Speed-dating event as publishers pitched their companies’ ranges to leading retail ‘Dragons’ in a series of quickfire ‘dates. Read comments from both sides of the ‘Den’ in Viewpoints. (Click to pages 26-27).
There are more retailer revelations in the popular What’s Hot section with a quad of indies sharing what ranges are selling well for them. (Click to pages 64-65).
With Cop26 kicking off in a few days’ time, PG’s first ever Sustainability Special is perfectly timed. This extensive section covers just some of the developments from retailers, publishers and suppliers as part of the industry’s sustainability push. (Click to page 32-33).
Just as sentiments are running high on the sustainability front, so the last 20 months have really highlighted the worth of words and sentiments cards. This indepth article features some of the ‘in words’ and themes that have been on the cards to help the public communicate that they care. (Click to pages 52-53)
With Brand Licensing Europe, the leading trade show for all things licensing-wise taking place at London’s ExCel shortly (Nov 17-19), PG talks to a trio of publishers in the know about licensing out as well as licensing in. (Click to pages 58-59)
And providing a feast for the eyes, the Innovations section details some new product releases (click to pages 50-51) while Art Source shares the ‘String in the Tale’ of artist Sally Wilson. (Click to pages 62-63).
All this and more in the pages of a lovely glossy magazine. Wouldn’t you like to hold it in your hands so you can flick through and read it wherever it takes your fancy?
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