July 2010 Home & Giving Fair

Hello? Anybody there?

Felt like that a bit at the July 2010 Home & Giving Fair. Yes, we knew it would be a much smaller fair than usual, but we weren't quite prepared for the complete lack of visitors. Where were you all?

Thankfully the few retailers keen enough to turn up this early in the year were thrilled with our new ranges and the number of orders was very positive if we calculate on a per-visitor percentage.

It's a bit too early in the year for us too, having only just got back from Japan, it was a struggle to get any quantity of stock, or even samples of the new things in time for this fair. So now we are faced with our big fair of the year, the Melbourne Home & Giving Fair 7-11 August, with some items already sold out.

Never fear, if you get your orders in early you will be first on the waiting list when our next container arrives in October. I've just put all the new things up on the website and the new catalogue is at the printers right now, so it's all go for Melbourne!

Don't forget!! We've been moved back to the Melbourne Showgrounds site at Flemington, so make sure you hop on one of those free shuttle buses from the city and make the trek out to see us there.

There will be more exhibitors at the Showground than the MEC, and of course all the new exhibitors with all new things, so it is definitely worth the visit. We've been exhibiting at these fairs for over 10 years now and we are still too "new" to make it into the MEC, so just think how old and uninteresting everyone exhibiting in the MEC must be. (ha ha ha -just joking guys-you know we love you, don't forget that dinner in China Town we were planning...)