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NEWS TOP STORY Adam Dury to leave Cardfactory
Temu’s Copying Scandal
Adam Dury, who has been the trade-facing frontman of the Cardfactory business since he joined the retail group over five years ago is to leave the retail group in December to take up what he describes as “an incredible opportunity” as chief commercial officer at the fast-growing pet retailer, Jollyes. Using his greeting card prowess will not be part of his new remit, “initially at least, but you never know!” teased Adam, who acknowledges that some of Cardfactory’s best selling cards have been to and from the pet. “I love the greeting card industry, it has been very much part of my life for the last 25 years, and I will miss it very much,” Adam added, who prior to joining Cardfactory was involved in greeting cards during his 13 years at Tesco, as well as the six years prior at Marks & Spencer. Adam has not only been integrally involved in major developments at Cardfactory, including a total store look revamp, expansion into London locations, acquisitions of South Africa Greetings and Garlanna, but has also been very supportive of industrywide activities. Of his time at Cardfactory, Adam said he was “hugely proud to have been a part of the Cardfactory team. It will always be a business I will hold dear to my heart, and I am still a shareholder so will still retain that connection, as well as the many friendships I have forged.”
McDaniels, Thortful and GCA join battle to protect publishers Sarah Ray and McDaniels Law, Paper Shed among Thortful and the GCA many more. have joined forces with Kelly Hudson, aggrieved publishers to managing director of battle against Temu, McDaniels Law, had the online marketplace no hesitation in which has ripped off a Above: Dandelion Stationery is one publisher whose designs have been ripped off by Temu. getting on board pro great number of card Below: Publisher Paper Plane is giving it to publishers and are selling Temu straight on social media and its website. bono as a case study and to provide copies of their designs on guidelines for affected publishers. the platform. “As IP infringement is one of McDaniels Thea Musselwhite, founder of Bold Law’s specialisms, when we learned from and Bright, together with Jo Wilson, PG’s Jakki Brown just how many founder of Dandelion Stationery publishers are being affected by Temu have led the charge to stop this lifting their designs without consent, we pernicious practice. felt compelled to act. The UK greeting “This is a scourge of our time. Our card community is revered for its world designs are our property and they are leading creativity. It is simply wrong that being stolen with no thought to the publishers’ best assets are being blood, sweat and tears that goes into plundered with no retribution,” stated Kelly. their original creation. The UK leads the Meanwhile, Thortful, the UK-based world in greeting card design, but it is online greeting card marketplace is also wrong, wrong, wrong that this creative determined to stamp out this copying on pre-eminence is being preyed on by behalf of the artists, designers and unscrupulous thieves,” stated Thea. “I publishers that sell through its was alerted to it by Frankie of You’ve platform. MD Pip Heywood took to social Got Pen On Your Face, who told me media posting the company’s stance: “We some of my designs were on Temu. won’t stand by and let our creators be However, when I started searching on exploited… When fast consumer the platform, I was appalled at just how marketplaces like Temu take designs from many fellow publishers’ designs featured our site, it undermines our creators. too,” she added. They’ve dedicated countless hours to Among the other publishers designs develop their ideas, only to see them sold Thea spotted on Temu included those at low prices with no from Paper Plane, Rosie compensation.” Made A Thing, Thortful has worked with its Bewilderbeest, Studio legal team at Cripps to Boketto, Redback Cards, develop a template and stepKlara Hawkins, Mungo by-step process for its creators and Shoddy, Emma Ball, to pursue a copyright claim Modern Toss, Brainbox directly as IP owners. Candy, Off the Leash,
Above: Adam Dury. Below: Adam is to join fast growing Jollyes.
PG Live 2025 opens for registration
Left: Plans for PG Live 2025 are well underway.
It’s all systems go for Progressive Greetings Live 2025 as registration has gone live for the show, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday, 3-4 June, at Islington's Business Design Centre in the heart of London, “Over 160 fabulous exhibitors have already booked their stands for PG Live 2025 – with loads more in the pipeline,” said Warren Lomax, co-owner and show director. Among the latest companies to book their stands for the June show are Studio Boketto, Molly Mae,
Museums & Galleries, Stormy Knight, Ohh Deer, Paperlink, Paper Salad, Pigment, Quitting Hollywood, UK Greetings, Unique Paper Company, Wendy Jones-Blackett, and Woodmansterne as well as many innovative growing brands. There’s also a host of exciting newbies and brand-new sparkling start-ups in the expanded Upper Village and Springboard areas. www.progressivegreetingslive.com
Partisan Products, Noel Tatt and Go La La, to name a few. These join an incredibly strong line-up that already includes a host of great names such as Abacus Cards, Alljoy Design, The Art File, Belly Button Designs, Brainbox Candy, Danilo, Emotional Rescue, Five Dollar Shake, Hallmark, Ling Design,
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