'Meet the Buyer' with TK Maxx, Homesense
The Giftware Association is excited to announce their next Meet the Buyer event working closely with buyers from the TJX Europe, more commonly known as TK Maxx or Homesense across its 600 UK Ireland…
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Head to Harrogate for the best of British Craft
For the past 43 years, the British Craft Trade Fair (BCTF) has offered a wonderful platform from which the best of British artisan producers, designers and crafts people can bring their products …
CEO of The Giftware Association to attend House of Lords panel
Sarah Ward has been given the exciting and rare opportunity to give the home and gift industry a voice in the House of Lords, discussing business access to finance.Sarah is no stranger to visiting…
2018's First 'Meet the Buyer' event
The Giftware Association’s 2018 series of ‘Meet the Buyer’ events has got off to a flying start with a change of location and a whole new load of buyers and eager suppliers. The event, held at The…
THE GIFTWARE ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOU
Sarah Ward has been given the exciting and rare opportunity to give the home and gift industry a voice in the House of Lords, discussing businesses access to finance. Sarah is no stranger to visiting…
HEAD TO HARROGATE FOR THE BEST OF BRITISH CRAFT
British Craft Trade Fair to run from April 8– 10 at the Great Yorkshire Show Ground As Britain looks forward to a Royal Wedding and Royal Baby whilst contemplating how to make the best go of Brexit…
CREATING YOUR SUCCESS
It's about growing your business isn't it? To do that, do you need to define your brand, build greater awareness or generate more leads and revenue? Whatever your challenge, as a Giftware Association…
HANDMADE FROM KEW AND HANDMADE FROM CHELSEA
Handmade in Britain was established over a decade ago by engineer-turned-designer Piyush Suri, an advocate of everything handmade. After working for a few years in the industry, he single-…
NOT ONE BUT TWO MEET THE BUYER EVENTS
The Giftware Association has been hard at work securing buyers for our 'Meet The Buyer' events throughout the year, and we are excited to bring you not one but two events, on the 8th March and 15th…
LONDON STATIONERY SHOW CONTINUES TO GROW
The London Stationery Show regularly attracts the UK’s biggest retailers, influential buyers and brands in the stationery, gift and fashion sectors and is on target to deliver its biggest number …
PANTONE TREND REPORT
Each new season the team at the Pantone Colour Institute creates the Pantone Fashion Colour Trend Report; a colour overview highlighting the top colours that are to be featured in top designs through…
SAVE THE DATE AGM
Save the date for this years AGM, for a day of informative talks, networking, and education. This year we would like to hear from you about what you would like to see at this year's event, please…
THE GIFTWARE ASSOCIATION AT SPRING FAIR
As Spring Fair is one of the biggest shows that we exhibit at throughout the year and has so many great opportunities for us, we thought this year we would try something a little bit different…
WE MADE A BOOK...
Here at the Giftware Association, we are super excited to announce that we made a book! A yearbook specifically of all our lovely members. The book which will be distributed to our buyer contacts…
THE BEGINNING OF OUR YEAR...
PHEW…And breathe…what a busy few months that has been. We are sorry we have been a bit quiet in terms of newsletters as we have been extremely busy offline with various projects. But as many of …
TILLINGTON MEET THE BUYER EVENT
The Giftware Association is excited to once again be facilitating a Meet the Buyer day with the Tillington Group. About the Tillington Group The Tillington Group is an association of some of the …
SMART PENSIONS
Top five reasons employers transfer their workplace pension “It saved money” Many of the more resource heavy providers charge a monthly admin fee to the employer, and will have additional charges…
TRADE SHOWS
Well we are just emerging from our busiest season but that doesn’t mean we can put our feet up, as by the time you are reading these we would have already visited in Pure in London to speak to exhibitors…
GOVERNMENT NEWS - INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
The strategy sets out how the government are building a Britain fit for the future – how they will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs with investment in the skills, industries and …
WILDLIFE WORLD TURNS 20
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Wildlife World. Founder and MD of Wildlife World, Norman Sellers has seen the company grow into one of Europe’s leading designers and manufacturers of wildlife…
BUSINESS FOR SALE
Big Ben Themes are suppliers of a broad range of retro decor for theming contract interiors, especially Sports and Music themes but many others as well. Sports Bars, Diners, Irish and British Pubs…
COME AND SAY HI TO THE GIFTWARE TEAM AT SPRING FAIR AND THEIR EXCITING STAND WITH BUY-FROM SHROPSHIRE
Come and visit our stand at Springfair on 5C82 - D83 where we have a shared space with Buy From Shropshire celebrating new to trade show exhibitors from the Shropshire region. The Giftware Association…
GA CHAIRMAN HENRI DAVIS TO HOST SEMINAR AT SPRING FAIR
GA CHAIRMAN Henri Davis will be hosting a seminar on the first day of this years much anticipated Spring Fair, The seminar entitled 'Independents: Manage your stock more effectively, grow your sales…
WHERE TO EAT AT SPRING FAIR
With Spring Fair less than a week away and everyone making their final preparations to their stand builds, selecting their best products and finalising travel and accommodation, have you had a chance…