In two days at the Reed Gift Fair and the Home & Giving Fair in Melbourne on the weekend and talking with many wholesalers, not once did someone say they do not supply newsagents, not once did someone criticise our channel. Indeed, man suppliers talked about enjoying dealing with newsagents because of the healthier traffic we have compared to many gift shops.
The reception this year for newsagents is the best I have ever experienced in many years coming to these fairs.
Hi Mark, come and see some contemporary greeting cards with a great sell through! Stand I 35 home and giving. Fiona candlebark
Hi Mark, come and see some contemporary greeting cards with a great sell through! Stand I 35 home and giving. Fiona candlebark
Hi Mark, come and see some contemporary greeting cards with a great sell through! Stand I 35 home and giving. Fiona candlebark
Hi Mark, come and see some contemporary greeting cards with a great sell through! Stand I 35 home and giving. Fiona candlebark
Fiona I am happy with my card sakes – up 13% YOY last quarter.
That’s great to hear!
Just got home from a whirlwind of a trip. I bought some great stuff and everyone was happy to serve and even offer free freight for orders made at the fair to our rather remote area. Often freight prohibits me from buying smaller orders. I leant one thing that virtually no one knows what exists north of Cairns.
I know exactly what exist north of cairns only drama is I need 2 weeks away from this place to do the trip .Fishing ,crabbing drinking and fishing camping ,we should to a business swap
We’ll swap with you Carol. You can come to the Snowy Mntns (minus 9 when I got to work yesterday) and go skiing and we’ll come up north and find out what a beach looks like.
I am more than happy to sell a newsagency to any of you so you can live in our agreeable climate.
Shayne & carol – newsagency swap. I like the idea.
Sadly Mark I think it would have the same results as that TV show “Wife Swap”. Not that I watched a lot of it, but what I saw wasn’t pretty.
James it probably could work but I just want to retire and not to the deep south. I got back from freezing Melbourne to rain and miserable weather so its not all roses in the tropics.
James you might have “misinterpreted???”
what wife swap meant – hope you weren’t too disappointed.
I have pondered swapping for a week with another nearby newsagency just to learn other operating methods, would be interesting and maybe helpful.
Hi! Mark
Which is a better platform to showcase Reed or Home & Giving for new importers and wholesalers.
Deepti there are changes occurring with the fairs and it is hard to say. Through my gift and newsagency software business I’ve been at both and each has benefits. I’m yet to decide re 2015.