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Mary Portas, aka Mary Queen of Shops, has spoken to the UK handmade industry via an open letter on her website.
On August 12th craft blogs UK Handmade and Handmade and Fabulous! posted an open letter to Mary Portas, asking for her help to raise the industry’s profile and bring handmade goods to[.....]
Last night I went along to a Q and A sessions with Sarah Curran, the founder and CEO of My-Wardrobe and their PR Director, Lauren Stevenson. The event was held at Soup Kitchen in Manchester’s Norther Quarter and was organised and hosted by Manchester Fashion Network.
My-Wardrobe.com went live in 2006 and now receives over[.....]
Crafted is a new scheme which pairs craft makers with leaders in the luxury sector in mentoring relationships. Launched in November 2009, the scheme is now in its fourth month and the mentoring relationships are well underway. Mentees are supported by specialists in areas such as intellectual property rights, e-commerce and international growth[.....]
Fans and followers of Lady Luck Rules OK will be familiar with their IP dispute last week. On Friday morning the independent jewellery and accessories label posted a message on Twitter, claiming their Russian Doll design had been ‘blatantly ripped off’ by internet retail giant ASOS. Judging by the influx of sympathy and[.....]
I recently added a post to our Vanilla Storm blog about online Christmas shopping trends in the UK. The statistics are quite interesting and demonstrate that, despite the credit crunch, online shopping spend is continuing to grow. Good news for small indie companies.
I was also interested to read that 3.8M Internet shoppers[.....]
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