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PG ASKED A SELECTION OF RETAILERS FOR THEIR BEST SELLERS Paul and Helen Southgate, co-owners of Cards N Things, Hellesdon. A popular long-established card and gift shop in a village just outside Norwich. Category
Name of Publisher
Product/Name Range
Comments
Christmas
Ling Design
Boxes of 24 Cards
Pigment Noel Tatt GBCC
Life in Pencil Decoupage Captions Paper House Large Boxes
“Large range, good quality box.” “Stands out in the racks.” “Simply works.” “Good size cards, nice designs.”
Nigel Quiney Publications Cherry Orchard Publishing
Pizazz
“A long-term winner.”
Grace; Grayson
“Both are very popular.”
Kingfisher Cards
Relations and Occasions The dual relation/age designs
“A new supplier for us, reasonably priced.” “Our best sellers.”
Emotional Rescue in collaboration with Paper Salad Rosie Made a Thing
Mine’s a Pint; Is It Friday Yet?
“New for us, but going very well.”
Gin & Frolics
“The humour is spot on.”
GBCC
Fable; General ages
Cherry Orchard Publishing
Grace; Grayson
“Always something a little different.” “We are forever reordering.”
Nigel Quiney Publications IC&G
Doodle
“Still going strong.”
Above right: Cuteness from Nigel Quiney’s Doodle range.
Barley
“Continues to sell well.”
Art
Woodmansterne
Generally
“Just enough for what we need.”
Photographic
Abacus Cards
BBC Countryfile; BBC Springwatch
“Classic images that hit the spot.”
Giftwrap
Glick
Generally
“If you don’t stock Glick by now?!...”
Gifts
Bookspeed
Children’s and dog lovers’ books Stationery and gifts
“People can’t resist.”
Right: A Life in Pencil Christmas design from Pigment.
Everyday
Relations & Occasions
IC&G
Humour
Adult Ages
Cute
Middle: A Woodmansterne art card.
Rachel Ellen Designs
“We stock more and more. The colouring books and pens fly out.”
Right: One of the many dog-related books from Bookspeed.
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