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Ryan Beaird, Event Director of Brands & Retail UK, has announced a new format for the summer conference taking place at the British Library (London) on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 July 2022. The ‘Meet the Buyers’ Networking Party – sponsored by Fabacus – is a speed networking ticket event …

Retailers are being invited to apply for a place on Brand Licensing Europe’s 2021 Retail Mentoring Programme, with the offer of participation in the free-to-attend course being extended to retailers from Europe as well as the UK, for the first time. Made possibly by the organiser’s adoption of a fully …

LEGO Super Mario has done it again,  cracking another retailer’s top ten toys for Christmas 2020, as the supermarket giant, Tesco reveals its own predictions of the wish list winners this year. Alongside the popular Nintendo and LEGO collaborative building set, toy vehicles and play-sets that “entertain children for longer”, …

Boppi the booty shaking Llama has topped Tesco’s top ten toys for Christmas list, the supermarket giant’s own prediction of what the best selling toys will be this year. Boppi is joined on the grocer’s list by big hitting items such as the LEGO Hogwarts’ Clock Tower from Harry Potter, …

Retailers are calling for urgent government action to help high streets in their struggle for footfall and sales as new data reveals that the number of shops, pubs and restaurants closing is rising at the fastest rate in ten years. According to the research, around 16 stores closed their doors …

The fancy dress specialist, Smiffys may well be wearing its lucky outfit come this September, having been shortlisted not once but twice for the best dress-up award at this year’s Licensing Awards. Both the Smiffys’ 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Barbie Costume and its children’s Roald Dahl collection have been shortlisted …

The boss of Tesco has called on internet retail giants like Amazon to pay new sales tax to support shops on the British high street, warning that the current business rates system is ‘unsustainable.’ Dave Lewis, who has been the CEO of Tesco since 2014, suggested in a piece written …

Wow Stuff has seen 50 per cent so far this year as it sees an stark uptake in its newly created Demonstration Division, now headed up by Jon Birch.

According to retail insiders, Tesco may name the chain Jack’s after it was noted that a division of the grocery group had attempted to register the name as a retail trademark.

The inquiry has been launched to “assess the competitive impact of these purchasing partnerships on the concerned markets, both upstream for the suppliers and downstream for the consumers.”