The collectables specialist has announced a roster of new releases for 2015 featuring some of the most celebrated and niche licenses of recent years. Funko has revealed a swathe of new Pop, Retro-Pop and ReAction figures for the year ...
Tags: animated movie, Toys
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
Philips has announced a new 34-inch curved LCD display as part of their announcements at the CES 2015 expo in Las Vegas. The Brilliant Curved UltraWide LCD display (if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) features a 21:9 aspect ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Philips, CES
U.S. chain-store sales rose 2.2 percent year on year for the week that ended on December 27 and included the final shopping days before Christmas, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs. ...
United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) and FedEx Corp (FDX.N) are rolling out new pricing systems to curb online retailers' large package sizes, but industry experts warn many small firms are unprepared and could pay up to 50 percent more for ...
Overall, retail sales during the Black Friday to Christmas Eve period excluding automotive sales increased 5.5 percent in 2014, according to Mastercard Spendingpulse’s initial view on the 2014 U.S. holiday shopping season. The ...
Loom Bands, LEGO Minifigures, anything Frozen...There have certainly been some stand out ranges of toys to define the year, but as the following suggests, there have been some dark horses, too. Looking at NPD figures for the year, ...
Tags: Loom Bands, LEGO, Toys
Foreign automakers in China may struggle to dictate sales goals in the future after dealers complained to the government that inflexible targets set during a market boom obliged them to buy too much stock and bear the brunt of a drop in ...
Tags: auto market, carmakers
People felt a strong and happy festive atmosphere in Beijing on Dec 24, and the Christmas Eve turned out to be another carnival for youths and kids just like the Halloween not long ago. While the Western festivals are becoming ...
With nine moths still to go before the doors open, the planning work for Tendence 2015 (29 August to 1 September) is in full swing. Leading brands and key players of the consumer-goods sector have signed up to present their multifarious ...
Tags: eating, drinking, cooking, hospitality, Furniture
The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond market
Most of the traditional January or Boxing Day sales now start online before Christmas, even before you've had a chance to pull a cracker. Retailers are not obliged to give you a refund or an exchange if you simply decide you don??t want ...
Tags: Boxing Day, Christmas
To have authentic Chinese family meals in a Chinese restaurant has become the top item on the to-do-list for many Germans during the current Christmas season. It was almost packed and all the waiters were having their hands full at ...
Tags: Chinese restaurant, Chinese Food
The Snowy White packs will consist of 10 white shell free range eggs and will be sold exclusively in Tesco stores nationwide from the 10 December. Unlike the famous sunshine yellow packaging that Happy Egg is known for, Snowy Whites will ...
Tags: Happy Egg, Tesco, Snowy White packs
All the art of selecting and roasting outstanding cocoa beans to provide a unique taste experience is concentrated in BELGIAN PIERR's chocolates. At this Christmas, BELGIAN PIERRE MARCOLINI's chocolate decorate streets in Belgium. ...