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Hyve Group has named the Retail Trust as its official charity partner for Spring and Autumn Fair for the next two years, as well as its wellbeing partner across all of its retail shows in the UK, including Glee, Pure, and Scoop, to provide support, awareness, and fundraising for the …
Read More »Big Potato launches The Great Board Game Trade In to support indie retailers through July
The independent board games company, Big Potato, has launched a new initiative to help its UK customers recycle their old board games called The Great Board Game Trade In. The campaign, kicking off on Monday, July 5th, will reward customers who bring in any old board games they have gathering …
Read More »BRC welcomes Government’s rent moratorium extension as move is ‘made in the nick of time’
The British Retail Consortium has welcomed the government’s plans to extend the current rent moratorium on commercial properties, including retailers, to protect tenants from eviction to March next year, stating that the move has been made “in the nick of time.” The Treasury chief secretary Steve Barclay told MPs in …
Read More »Online retailer Kidly celebrates fifth anniversary with Family Action donation
The online children’s retailer, Kidly is celebrating half a decade this week with an anniversary donation of five per cent of sales to Family Action’s Creating Happy Memories campaign. The platform – a retailer of toys, games, educational items, and a range of clothing for children aged from birth to …
Read More »‘2019 will be the year of the independent retailers’
Following reports of a ‘phenomenal Christmas’ across the nation among many of the UK’s independent toy retailers, confidence is high that more power will now pass on to these pillars of community for the year ahead
Read More »Lighthouse Toys owner on fundraising mission for new wheelchair
Samantha Broad, who owns the Lighthouse Toys shop with her husband Tim, became ill in 2014 which has resulted in her needing a specialist wheelchair to get outside the house.
Read More »Weak sales won’t derail Mothercare’s turnaround strategy, says chief executive
The retailer’s chief executive, mark Newton-Jones has said that the brand ‘wouldn’t allow a 12 week reporting period to create knee-jerk reaction,’ and will continue to focus on ‘style, price point, design, quality and exclusivity.’
Read More »Bumper pay increase for Toys R Us chief executive leads to further questions
The Sunday Telegraph revealed that the company more than trebled the pay package for its former UK boss, Roger Mclaughlan, from £336,000 in 2014 to £1m in 2015 and another £1.3m for the year ending January 30th 2016.
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