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Spotlight On... Christmas Gifts
All I Want For
Christmas The Autumn trade shows - to include Autumn Fair, Top Drawer and Scotland’s Trade Fair Autumn - are the last exhibition opportunities for gift retailers to top up their buying for Christmas 2018, with PG&H highlighting some of the trendiest products around in the £5 and under, £10 and under and £20 and under sweet spots. With the major multiples such as Harrods and Selfridges well and truly in the Christmas spirit, it will soon be the turn of the independents to unpack their Christmas orders and start to put out products and decorations to catch those earlybird Christmas shoppers.
£5 and under Fragranced sachets make a lovely gift to pop into a Christmas stocking, with Ben Stubbs, managing director of Heart of the Country, pointing out: “It’s a gift, it’s functional and it’s consumable. At just £3.50, people keep coming back for more. For maximum fragrance effect, gift retailers should open a couple of sachets in the shop.” Mugs too, fit nicely into this price category. “With positive messages and uplifting statements on trend for decorative accessories, a message mug provides the perfect medium to make a statement or to
Above: Santa may not be on his way just yet, but Christmas stockings and Santa sacks will soon need to be filled. Left: Greenleaf’s Sweet Grace fragrance sachet, distributed by Heart of the Country. Below left: Among the new feelgood mugs from Pimpernel.
deliver a message to someone,” says Portmeirion Group’s sales and marketing director Phil Atherton. “Our tabletop accessories brand Pimpernel has recently launched a new range of mugs featuring feelgood slogans - a first for Pimpernel - making a great gift at £5.” “Men invariably get socks in their Christmas stockings, with a huge demand in the run up to the holidays,” points out Steve Davies, managing director of Joe Davies. “The socks in our Sock Society collection feature bright, eye-catching designs, with top notch quality and a RRP of just £4.99. To maximise sales for retailers, a custom built spinner comes free with the first purchase.” Also retailing at £4.99 are eight quirky laser engraved hevea wood coasters from T&G, which complement the company’s Bar boards collection. “Sold individually,
Above: Christmas Sock Society from Joe Davies. Below: T&G’s Bar coasters.
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