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Greeting Cards News
Clintons 'sings it with love' for Valentine's Day
Clintons is organising choirs to sing songs to competition winners’ loved ones as part of its personalised Valentine’s Day campaign.
House of Fraser to extend collaboration with Mary Portas
Self styled retail guru Mary Portas will launch four more Mary & House of Fraser shop-in-shops, continuing her collaboration with the UK department store group.
Hallmark plays international card
Greetings card retailer Hallmark has laid out plans for international expansion as it launches a business review under new chief executive Steve Wright.
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Clintons Christmas like-for-likes edge up
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January shopper numbers fall
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Clintons FD Paul Salador quits
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Clintons like-for-likes slip 2.4%
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New chief at Clintons reveals recovery plan
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Struggling Clintons suffers profit plunge
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Clinton Cards' new CEO starts
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Clinton asks landlords to stagger September rent
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Funky Pigeon trial stores open
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Retailers take longer to pay suppliers
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Retail gets ready for make or break Christmas week
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Park Group upbeat despite loss
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Clintons airs TV ad for first time in seven years
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New flagship store for Hallmark
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The Hoff attends Clintons Celebrity Fastcard launch
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Clintons delays results announcement
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New marketing director outlines plans to transform Clintons brand
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Clintons raids Dixons for new marketing director
Greeting Cards In Depth
Retail resolutions for 2012
Retailers reveal the business resolutions that they will be sticking to during the good and bad of 2012. By Gemma Goldfingle and Alex Lawson.
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Darcy Willson-Rymer
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Timothy Melgund
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Running up the down escalator
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Time for retail to come in from the cold
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How many stores does a retailer need?
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Learning to play their cards right
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Guerrilla marketing gets results for retailers
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Life after retail redundancy
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Craftwork: HobbyCraft chief executive Chris Crombie
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In-store promotions: Let me entertain you
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Saving the pound
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Next sows new seeds of growth
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Pushing the envelope
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Clinton Lewin
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Christmas Trading: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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A big day for retailers and royalists alike
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Dean and Janet Hoyle: the husband-and-wife team behind Card Factory
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Moonpig: Success on the cards
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Service charges: Lip service to retailers or a plan of action?
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Currency shifts: Less bang for your buck
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Netto effects: discounters boom in credit crunch
Greeting Cards Store Galleries
Christmas future
Break out and hang up the decorations, Christmas windows are once more upon us. But is it a case of same old, same old, or are retailers offering something new? John Ryan reports.
Vertical expansion increases margins
Michael Poynor is managing director of Retail Expertise where he consults with retailers on operational, strategic and financial projects.
