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PG ASKED A GROUP OF RETAILERS FOR THEIR BEST SELLERS
Debbie and Jerry Brown, co-owners of First Class Greetings and Plum Green gift shop, Hadleigh. The two shops (which also includes a Post Office) are in the ancient Suffolk market town’s historic High Street. Category
Name of Publisher
Product/Name Range
Comments
Relations & Occasions
Woodmansterne UK Greetings
General General
“These are good sellers across the board – but this time of year sympathy is sadly the top caption.”
Humour
Rosie Made A Thing Emotional Rescue
Right: UKG’s Traces Of Nuts is still going strong.
UK Greetings
Gin & Frolics Is It Friday Yet? Mine’s A Pint Traces Of Nuts
“Always a fantastic seller.” “These ranges, in collaboration with Paper Salad, do well.” “Even after all these years, this is still a good seller. It just makes people giggle – there are a few risqué references, but it’s all good fun.”
Children’s
Woodmansterne UK Greetings
Quentin Blake General
“These are great sellers for adults buying for children.” “They’re always popular - we have a much larger selection from these guys so they stick out more.”
Adult Ages
Five Dollar Shake
Milestone Ages
“They’re beautiful cards, very delicate and just gorgeous.”
Art
Museums & Galleries Paper Shed
General General
“These are very good.” “These are a kind of art, different and very cute too.”
Cute
Carte Blanche
Me To You
“We still sell a lot of Me To You, it’s the traditional cute for us and people still like it.”
Photographic
Museums & Galleries
“These are the best photographic.”
Right: Tracks’ photographic humour.
Right: Second Nature’s Pop Ups mark milestones.
Tracks
Natural History Museum National Trust RSPB Naughty By Nature
3D/Pop-Ups
Second Nature
Pop Ups
“It’s the milestone designs that are really special.”
Gift Wrappings
Glick Woodmansterne
General General
“We do mostly Glick wrap, but we have done quite well with Woodmansterne since it launched into wrap.”
Gifts
Jellycat
General
“We can sell anything from Jellycat that we can get our hands on – and they’re great for window displays.”
Woodmansterne
“People like birds and gardens so these are perfect.” “Tracks is very strong in photographic humour.”
Right: Customers are flushed with excitement about all things Jellycat.
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