July 2017, SUMMERTIME and the living is easy – well maybe not so easy, but it is summer and that means Harrogate as the July issue contains our 43-page Home & Gift Buyers’ Festival preview starting on page 46. One of the favourite and most sociable shows on the circuit, this summer’s 57th event looks bigger and better than ever with the Greetings & Stationery marquee now firmly established on the lawns. There’s also a great company profile for Really Good and Soul (p24) who are celebrating their 30th and 20th anniversaries respectively, plus a look at what PMS International have to offer (p28), and we focus on the famous German company Steiff for our Plush Toys feature. After almost four decades in the industry, Ling Design MD Ian Bant bows out with an interesting look back over his career (p38) and we have a four-page photographic PG Live Review (p90). Our usual excellent columnists and regular features have now been enhanced by Lema Publishing MD Malcolm Naish’s Step Back In Time to
