Deal inked with Choc-O-Bloc for firm to immediately start supplying products including Picture Maker. Re:creation has secured the worldwide distribution rights to Choc-O-Bloc's Magic Choc range. The firm will immediately start supplying ...
Tags: Toys
Retailers champion the global board game festival for driving footfall and boosting sales. Independent toy, collectible and comic stores across the UK are preparing for an onslaught of gaming fans this weekend, as International Tabletop ...
Tags: board game, Toys
New partnership "addresses the gap in Europe for high quality play-dolls." Boutique toy company Daughters of History has signed an exclusive distribution across Europe for its a Girl for All Time doll range. A new partnership with ...
DeSL a global company delivering integrated web based solutions for the Fashion, Apparel, Textile and Footwear sectors, announces that Basic Thinking Limited, a UK based clothing manufacturer has selected the DeSL Fashion PLM & ERP ...
Tags: DeSL PLM Software, Textile
Collaboration between retailers, brands, their manufacturing partners and suppliers is starting to drive a recovery in the UK’s garment making sector. This was the optimistic and overwhelming conclusion of speakers at the recent ASBCI ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Textile
Wooden game has a rich history in Western Africa and Banyan believes UK retailers should get on board. Banyan, a company specialising in African and Caribbean heritage products and services, is bringing wooden game Banyan Wari to the UK ...
Tags: Toys, Wooden Toys
Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said: "More shoppers were out and about in January, with a solid 1.6 per cent in overall footfall across the country. It’s good news for retailers and it helps to explain ...
Tags: UK Retailers, Footfalls
Double and triple digit rises in searches for UK retailers from key export markets. Helen Dickinson, Director General, British Retail Consortium, said: “The UK is the world’s second biggest online retail exporter, beaten ...
Tags: UK Retailers, Apparel
The UK retail industry is signing up to a range of ambitious targets for reducing its impact on the environment, having beaten the previous set across all areas. Commitments to be announced at A Better Retailing Climate launch event ...
Whilst the countdown to Christmas has been planned for months, the dawning of Black Friday on Friday 29th November now signals the start of the final flurry for seasonal sales. The phenomena started in the US, to capitalise on the ...
Tags: Christmas Sales, UK Retailers
Food and non-food volume sales are falling, indicating ordinary people are not feeling the benefits of economic recovery in Europe and the UK yet, according to market analyst Information Resources (IRI). Commenting on the firm’s ...
Stockport-based schoolwear supplier Rowlinson Knitwear has implemented a new foreign exchange strategy to help protect the firm from currency volatility risk. Working with HSBC's Manchester Commercial Centre, Rowlinson has ensured ...
Tags: schoolwear, Knitwear
Whitworths, the dried fruit, nut and seed supplier, has received a big cash boost after private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe Fund IV acquired a major stake in the Midlands-based firm. Equistone Partners investment will enable ...
Tags: Fruit, Nut, Agriculture, Food
UK retailers have voiced strong concerns over plans announced by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) to apply a new “discretionary” approach on whether to conduct a site visit when inspecting certain types of businesses ...
Tags: Gla Approach, Textile
Total retail search volumes grew 15% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. Search volumes on tablet devices outpaced those on any other device, increasing 132% compared with growth on smartphone ...