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Gift Focus magazine is the UK's leading bi-monthly trade publication for the giftware industry, distributed to independent retailers, high street multiples, department stores, e-tailers, garden centres, heritage outlets and all other gift stockists.

Now the magazine also incorporates Attire Accessories, which is aimed at fashion accessory buyers. Visit the Attire Accessories website.

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Gift Focus magazine - Issue 137 - May/June 2023

Latest issue of Gift Focus magazine is available now

In this issue:

Summer Loving
The sun is out, and consumers are feeling ready to splash the cash – check out this range of product to stock

Gift of the Year Winners
Discover the winners of the Gift of the Year competition

All the small things
Baby gifts are a sure-fire sales hit, which never go out of fashion

Conscious living
Stock these eco-friendly products and cater to an ever-growing environmentally aware consumer

Interior: Colour Wheel
Yellow is the colour of summer and these products will give the home a fresh feel

Home & Gift gears up for spectacular summer show

Home & Gift is gearing up for another spectacular show this summer in picturesque Harrogate. From...

Pintail Candles marks 30th anniversary

Pintail Candles is celebrating a significant birthday this year. The company has been making fine fragranced...

Registration for Home & Gift open!

Mark your calendars – registration for Home & Gift Harrogate 2023 is now open! The industry's most beloved...

Joe Davies appoints David Cree as Sales Director

Manchester based importer and giftware distributor Joe Davies has appointed David Cree, former...

From the editor

Positive vibes

As I write my Editor’s Letter the eternal winter continues and the rain is pelting down – the beautiful one day of spring the UK enjoyed a distant memory! Not only does the bad weather dampen spirits – I for one feel like hibernating until the wet retreats – it can hit retail sales as consumers forego in-person shopping trips for online, thus highlighting how important it is to have a complementary e-tail offering for your store or boutique.

However, there is always hope, and if last summer was anything to go by, when it does finally arrive, we can reap the rewards of shoppers who are desperate to dust off their summer shoes and paint the town red and get those tills ringing!

Looking forward, this issue we showcase the great and the good of the Gift industry and announce the winners of the Gift of the Year competition! Get your order books at the ready!

We also have a veritable treat of features to whet your buying appetite, and this issue will be focusing on eco-friendly products, and the perennial bestselling category of baby gifts. In addition we look at the best bath & body products, as well as tabletop items.

If that wasn’t enough, we have a preview of Exclusively Housewares and PG Live. As always, please shout if there’s anything you’d like to see in the magazine, we love to hear from our readers.

And don’t forget to flip this magazine to get your fashion accessories fix in our sister magazine Attire Accessories!

Louise Prance, Editor

PS. If you have any news you would like to submit to this site or Gift Focus magazine, please email editor@giftfocus.com

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Louise Prance, Editor of Gift Focus magazine
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Pet Appeal - Wag&Wool saw a gap in the market

Starting in the height of the Pandemic, Wag&Wool creates matching pet and human accessories – a growing trend in the UK. March 2020, the pandemic gave us all a chance for pause and introspection. For me, it was an opportunity to put the vitality of the high fashion industry on hold and concentrate on a project closer to my heart. Having shared my life with dogs since I can remember, I wanted to begin designing a beautiful range of gift-worthy knitwear for dogs. The lightbulb moment came to me when I met my friend and her dog, Monti, on a particularly chilly day in Brighton. We wrapped Monti up in one of my hand-knitted lambswool scarves to keep him cosy and I never looked back. Wag&Wool was born.

Home organisation with JPT Europe

Shinya Masuda, Managing Director of JPT Europe Ltd, discusses their brand King Jim and the demand for Japanese products in the UK.

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