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Draw UK, the hand-drawn giftware and greeting card design company, has added to its vibrant range of kitchen textiles with the launch of a collection of fun and handy pot grabs. These join a wide selection of high quality tea towels, oven gloves and stylish aprons to provide retailers with Draw UK's largest and most colourful kitchen textile collections to date. www.drawuk.co.uk
Get ready for Blade & Rose's exciting new Autumn/Winter launch, arriving July 2025 – perfect for your seasonal and gift-ready displays.
This season, the company is transporting little adventurers to magical countryside lands with three enchanting new collections: Rustic Farmyard, Meadow Farmyard Friends, and Teddy the Dragon.
Each collection features playful characters brought to life through vibrant, charming designs, all crafted from soft, sustainable cotton for comfort and durability.
The sets include long-sleeved tops, leggings, matching socks, and a cosy hoodie – adding a magical twist to everyday wear! Rustic Farmyard is perfect for farmyard fun, with a bold tractor appliqué on a burnt orange top, woodland motifs on deep green leggings, and whimsical matching socks.
Meadow Farmyard Friends features a soft peach top showcasing woodland friends like bunnies, foxes, and buzzing bees, with matching navy leggings decorated with forest creatures and mushrooms – ideal for nature-loving little ones.
Teddy the Dragon invites children into a fantasy land, with a vibrant green top showing Teddy breathing fire, dragon scale leggings, and a cosy hoodie with 3D dragon spikes, ears, and Teddy's adorable face – perfect for days full of imagination.
These delightful collections are ideal for gift shops and garden centres seeking charming, high-quality clothing to captivate families and add a touch of magic to their seasonal displays. Contact Blade & Rose today to stock your shelves with these fantastic new ranges!
www.bladeandrose.co.uk
The Strawberry Beni Bag is a Braided Rug Company special, perfect for every day essentials, and a little bit more! www.braided-rug.co.uk
At Sock Academy, the team works incredibly hard to push boundaries and create fresh new products with fun and unique designs to its offerings each year, keeping the collections feeling exciting. The company has launched 13 new gift boxes from United Oddsocks across Kids and Adults, each bursting with personality, bold patterns and the signature odd socks feel its customers love. The company has already been recognised by The Gift of the Year Awards for two of its brand-new gift boxes, one of which was named a finalist, and the awards now endorse as a highly commended product. The company is also evolving its packaging game, with two new style gift boxes under the Cockney Spaniel brand. Ready-to-display and beautifully designed, they're ideal for Mother's and Father's Day. The new Christmas Cracker style product includes two odd pairs, which will be available nearer A/W. But the biggest news? Sock Academy is stepping things up with the launch of its brand-new Odd Pairs! Available in Adults and Kids, these funky, standalone socks are full of personality with trend-led designs made to stand out from the crowd. They offer a fresh alternative to the classic six odd sock gift box, making them the perfect impulse pick-up. Each of the exciting new products are packed with shelf appeal and available now! www.sockacademy.com
Meet the cuddliest characters in giftware - the Fluffy Highland Coos from Joe Davies. These adorable pottery figurines feature a soft, tactile fur finish and irresistibly cheeky expressions that make them a customer favourite at first glance.
Available in a variety of poses and sizes, including the ever-popular dangle leg style, these little coos are designed to perch, sit, or hang with effortless charm. They're ideal pick-up gifts that bring warmth and character to shelves, perfect for independent gift shops and garden centres looking for standout sellers.
www.joedavies.co.uk
A compendium of cats, tails in the air – they're intended to be used to hold rings, but are just as good as shelf decorations. Reaching 10cm high, there's a massive discount of 20 percent if you buy a full set of 60. Priced excellently, they're ideal pocket money gifts or stocking fillers at Christmas. And who can resist cats? Fairtrade and-carved and painted in Bali with sustainable albesia wood, which grows to maturity in just 6-7 years.
www.sharedearth-trade.co.uk
A charming new children's book is turning pages - and heads - in the publishing world. Little Coffee Cup and the Big Surprise, the debut title from author and sustainability advocate Hayley Slack, is the world's first published children's book to be printed on paper made from recycled coffee cups. Blending imagination with innovation, this heartwarming tale introduces young readers to Little Coffee Cup, a spirited character who leaves the comfort of a café to discover the big, wide world. But beneath the playful storyline lies a bigger purpose: to spark conversations about waste, reuse and the circular economy, one cup at a time.
www.littlecoffeecup.com
Eloise Hall continues to bring fresh creativity to the world of greetings cards with her latest collection of beautifully delicate designs, now tailored specifically for female family birthdays. Inspired by the beauty and power of nature, each card features Eloise's signature handcrafted collages, combining hand-cut origami paper with intricate ink drawings to create elegant and distinctive designs. www.holy-mackerel.co.uk
Burleigh Pottery introduces Blossom Calico, a fresh reinterpretation of the company's beloved Calico pattern, first created in 1968.
This new Spring/Summer 2025 collection softens the iconic deep blue with delicate floral tones, offering a vibrant update for contemporary tables.
Handcrafted in the heart of the Staffordshire Potteries since 1851, the full range includes tableware, teaware, and giftware, with select pieces available in gift boxing.
www.burleigh.co.uk
Halftoys spark curiosity in preschoolers thanks to a minimalist design that belies their play value.
The open-ended play range provides a multi-sensory experience and features dinosaurs, forest, savannah and ocean creatures. Each Halftoy has a tactile, soft-hued skin, which includes safe magnets seamlessly embedded into each half so they can be opened and closed easily to reveal their skeleton within.
As well as being highly collectable, kids will love to play, fidget and role-play with their Halftoys and they can even display them too. The range includes World Playsets, Diorama Sets, Picture books and Single Halftoys.
www.brainstormltd.co.uk