Gift Focus inc Attire Accessories - January / February 2021

75 SPRING FAIR Award-winning greetings card company Cinnamon Aitch was scheduled to return to The Spring Fair this February. Despite the change of plan, many lovely new designs have still been launched, available instead through the website and sales agents. In addition to the beautiful gift offering, there are many additions to some of its most popular card ranges including a brand-new range, ‘Amelia’. Designed by the talented Emily Hauck ‘Amelia’ is a hand finished new range of greetings cards, sensitively illustrated and punctuated with positivity. The range focuses on the female send and designs include rainbow cakes, a campervan and picnics in the great outdoors as nature is celebrated alongside the welcoming in of warmer days. Emily is also credited for designing one of Cinnamon Aitch’s best-selling men’s range ‘Cobalt’. Each C6 design is finished by hand with sparkly gems and wooden beads, RRP £3.25. The restrained contemporary ‘Geometrix’ range sees exquisite new designs employing a sophisticated palette with beautiful deep embossed elements. Simple, stylish and beautifully modern, the range now includes thinking of you, new home and get well titles complementing the blanks and birthday selection, C6, RRP £2.25. The fun, colourful ‘Armadillo’ range also sees additions extending across occasions. Zebras and penguins on scooters and milkshake drinking giraffes – what’s not to love! All with colourful, textured elements that nod to the company’s textile design roots. Hand finished with sparkly gems and wooden beads, C6 RRP £2.99. The popular ‘Margo’ range goes from strength to strength, full of colour, fun and mischief. Now at 55 in the range this 140mm square format continues to grow in size and popularity. RRP £2.50. All cards are printed on 350g FSC board, supplied with an FSC envelope and made entirely in the UK. T: +44 (0)121 773 6833 E: hello@cinnamonaitch.co.uk www.cinnamonaitch.co.uk The start of any New Year in the gift trade really begins with the Spring Fair, it’s the time when suppliers launch their new Spring/ Summer collections to retailers, hungry for the new looks and trends that will set them up for the coming year. Paul Hooker, Joe Davies commercial director, commented, “At Joe Davies we are big supporters of the main exhibitions and no Spring Fair in 2021 is really sad news for everyone. It’s a time when we meet so many of our customers, get feedback on our range and we thrive on the vibrant buzz of the halls. “It’s great news that the vaccine program is underway that will hopefully see a return to trade shows by the summer, but in the meantime the show, or more accurately, trade, must go on.” Joe Davies has launched its own ‘At Home’ Spring Fair that will take place at its spacious Manchester showrooms between the 1 st and 12 th March, 2021. Preparation for the Spring/Summer collection started, in the case of seasonal lines, a full year beforehand and even with the difficulties of 2020 the company will have plenty of new lines for its customers. When asked about products for the show Paul explained, “With such a large range there are too many trends and developments to cover them all. Generally, there will be a light feel to the collection as we look ahead to brighter horizons, with many additions to some of our best-selling ranges, such as Village Pottery, Scrabble Sentiments and Thoughtful Words – which has performed exceptionally well. “Sentiment gifts really have been a strong point for many, so expect new additions to our best-selling sentiment jewellery. On the home front we have lots of great new ranges following the family and friends’ theme, some with a bit of a twist. In addition, with the lifting of restrictions and some return to normality during the season, our Equilibrium Fashion Collection will have plenty of new life injected, so retailers can make the most of sales as people once again start to socialise and dress up.” Joe Davies is not new to hosting exhibitions in its showroom, so given the pandemic are there any special restrictions? Paul outlines the plans, “We are fortunate to have very spacious showrooms and all the measures you would expect are in place. All we ask is for customers to let us know when they are coming so we can manage the numbers. Whilst we would love to be at Spring Fair, our own event is the next best thing, customers seeing the range first-hand is so important and we are really looking forward to repeating the success of our Autumn Fair.” T: +44 (0)161 975 6300 www.joedavies.co.uk A new range of greetings cards designed by Janice Daughters of Art By Janice has been released just in time to enter into The Gift Of the Year Awards 2021. These designs feature adorable pet dogs and cats some with their stylish owners. With an Art Nouveau feel these greetings cards offer something a little bit different. The attractive frieze on the reverse, and at the base, of the design can be cut out and recycled into a bookmark. At present there are 26 designs within the collection with more to follow in the new year. Visit the website to see the full range of greetings cards. www.artbyjanice.co.uk