Saturday and Sunday dates now sold out, with hours extended on the Thursday and Friday to cope with 'phenomenal demand'. Brick 2014 has now sold out of weekend tickets. The show, which runs from November 27th to November 30th, only ...
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Set has successfully passed the LEGO Ideas review stage. LEGO will be releasing an official Big Bang Theory set after the project successfully passed the review process on LEGO Ideas. The toy company announced on Friday, November 7th ...
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Home furnishing retailer IKEA has announced total sales of £1.4b in the UK for the financial year ending 31st August 2014, an increase of 11.3% on the previous year. Following an ambitious pledge last year by UK country retail ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, presented its first “Axalta Mexico Science Award” at the State of Mexico’s Science and Engineering Fair sponsored by the Science and ...
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Joining the Disney Princess range, Elsa's Sparkling Ice Palace will feature LEGO Elsa, LEGO Anna and LEGO Olaf. LEGO has unveiled its first building set based on Disney’s award winning animated blockbuster movie, Frozen. Titled ...
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The Danish toymaker reveals it will not be renewing its co-promotional deal with the oil firm. LEGO is to end its long-standing partnership with Shell following a global campaign from Greenpeace. The Danish toymaker has revealed that it ...
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Ritani has partnered with a number of fine jewelry brands and designers, as well as up-and-coming talent from the Fashion Institute of Technology, to launch the Ritani Designer Collections program. The program works like this: Each ...
While plastics and bioplastics continue slogging it out to develop the most sustainable plastic options, one company has developed a packaging form that makes plastic redundant. Material science company, Ecovative, has created a new class ...
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The 14th AFGC Chep Retail Index, released on 28 July, suggests that the retail sector has regained much of its strength. The Index shows year-on-year retail sales growth was 5.2% in the June quarter. And although this was a slight dip ...
John Lewis reports that its Home department enjoyed a superb week's trade for the week ending 5th July, with furniture being the star of the show, recording an all-time record week for the summer season. Beds in particular drove this ...
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Woolworths Holdings Limited announced a number of senior management changes in Australia that follow the completion of WHL’s acquisition of David Jones Ltd (“David Jones”) and its buy out of the minority interests in ...
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In June, shopper numbers in Northern Ireland were 11.8% higher than a year ago, up on the 9.2% rise in May 2014, reports the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium-Springboard Footfall Monitor. Northern Ireland continues to have the highest ...
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Product uses AI to allow a car to recognise its position on a track. Development company Wow! Labs, a spin out from Wow! Stuff, has launched the Kickstarter campaign for Real FX Racing. The product uses AI to allow a car to recognise ...
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According to recently published figures for the UK, it now accounts for 13% of all transactions and online grocery sales are set to double in key European markets by 2016. This shift in consumer shopping behaviour has inevitably had an ...
Ashley Millward has opened Small World, a toy shop specialising in niche and traditional toys Online toy retailer, Canterbury Toy Shop has made the leap to bricks and mortar, opening up a new traditional toyshop in Broadstairs. The new ...
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