Wallace & Gromit were on the Cardgains stand at Spring Fair International to announce the winner of the buying group’s annual prize draw, where Terry and Sue Gorton of Caldicot post office scooped the fabulous prize of a trip for two to Las Vegas.
Wallce & Gromit was present at the Fair to highlight the wonderful [...]
Wallace & Gromit draw Cardgains winner
Kara Tointon to appear at The Jewellery Show
Former Eastenders star Kara Tointon will be appearing on the Storywheels stand over at The Jewellery Show from 12.00 - 2.00 today so don’t miss her!
Spring Fair International opens for business
It’s less than an hour since the doors opened on Spring Fair International 2010 and the show is already getting packed. There’s a brilliant buzz about the place, people were practically bashing down the doors to get in at 8.50!
Shop can’t wait to get out and about for a look at all the fantastic new [...]
Ackerman celebrates 100 years of trading
The organiser of Spring Fair International, Emap Connect, was delighted to present Ackerman with an engraved crystal bowl and birthday cake to help the Hall 1 exhibitor celebrate a century of trading.
Ackerman, which has exhibited at the NEC since 1976 with Spring Fair, then before that at Blackpool, has grown from a small costume jewellery company in London’s [...]
Volume Halls open at Spring Fair International
The Volume Hall 1 at Spring Fair International has opened to the trade today and already the aisles are filling up with retailers on the hunt for those must-have products that will help them boost profits in the year ahead.
Exhibitors in this sector cover every kind of product between them, including the latest character-licensed merchandise. [...]
Spring Fair International buzz is building
The Emap team is onsite at the NEC watching the buzz building on what’s set to be the best Spring Fair in years by the looks of things!
There are loads of fantastic new features being created as I write, including Spotlight and Fresh! in Hall 3, which will be packed full of designer gifts, jewellery and [...]
Supermarket bottom sniffer caught on CCTV
Shop had a good giggle on the way home from work last night when we read about a menacing supermarket bottom sniffer, who was caught on CCTV sniffing a shelf-stacker’s bottom at least 20 times. A police hunt is now on for the mystery weirdo, who reportedly visited the Plymouth branch of the Co-op on [...]
Vicar suggests shoplifting may not be a crime
An Anglican vicar has provoked a minor outrage by suggesting that shoplifting from major retailers is not necessarily a crime if one is poor and hungry enough. Father Tim Jones, vicar at the Church of St Lawrence in York was reported to have said in his latest Sunday sermon that: “My advice, as a Christian priest, [...]
Damien Hirst caught snapping sculptures in Mayfair gallery
The billionaire artist Damien Hirst will be somewhat red in the face this morning after pictures of him covertly photographing sculptures in Mayfair’s Barakat gallery surfaced in the press.
Hirst, whose latest exhibition at the Wallace Collection was utterly slated by critics, was caught driving up to the gallery, which is opposite Claridge’s Hotel, in the [...]
Rodent rat alert: Are Go Go Pets poisonous?
While the manufacturer of hamster-themed craze product, Go Go Pets, is busy warning us all that there are likely to be toy shortages this Christmas, consumer watchdogs are murmuring that the battery-powered, life-sized hamster Dream Toy may be a health and safety hazard.
According to Good Guide, the £10 Go Go Hamster, which is manufactured in [...]
