New product lines available from from selected Thingz Gifts stores in Western Australia includes a classy 3D hand carved wooden fish wall plaque/hat rack in cool white.
The feisty fish design includes a section covered in a piece of fishing net and with a rope around its tail. The adornments are complimented by a starfish and shells attached to the net.
Australian Shopping Centres are a mixed bag of variety. At a time when Australia’s rural and regional economy has been drought affected for an extended period of time and worse hit by petrol price increases, you would not expect regional shopping centres to be travelling too well. However it seems that those located in the larger regional cities that have a strong population growth can still perform well.
Orana Mall Centre East Dubbo is a medium sized shopping centre which houses around 40 specialty retailers, discount department stores as well as Big W, Franklins and Woolworths. Dubbo is a larger regional City in mid west NSW. It is the last country city before you get to the real outback. Even so it has a current growth rate of 250 new homes per year.
So Orana Mall Centre has been resilient to the drought and has had its best year ever, with a turnover of $170 million for the year to the end of January 2008 from around 4 million shopper visits pa. This shopping centre ranks fifth in Australia for total sales per square metre. Giftware, Clothing and jewellery retailers are doing well there as are major department stores.
Another example would be Park Beach Plaza Coffs Harbour which accounts for 30 per cent of all retail turnover in the city. With around $260 million in sales last year, Park Beach Plaza Coffs Harbour is ranked number two in the state and seven nationally for sales.
Park Beach Plaza is just 2 kilometres north of the Coffs Harbour CBD with five big name stores – Big W, Woolworths, Target, Aldi and Ritchies Supa IGA as well as 120 specialty shops covering fashion, music and electrical appliances. Chain & franchise groups include; Go Vita Health, Sportsgirl, Strandbags, and gifts and homewares stores such as Xtreem Cards & Gifts, Bath, Body & Soul, Lily & Sapphire, Xtreem Cards & Gifts, Homeart, Howards Storage World, My House, Park Beach Interiors and Your Kitchenshop .
http://www.christmasroadshow.com.au
A Group of Australia’s key Christmas products wholesalers have joined together to formally present the Christmas Roadshow in several cities around Australia. The companies include; Gibsons Imports, Akcent Decor, Contents Giftware, Theatre Imports and 42nd Street, all well established Christmas ornament and Christmas product importers & wholesalers. These Christmas Roadshow exhibitors will all have their showings available in close proximity and on the same dates, because they want to give their customers the convenience of seeing them all in the same outing whilst they experience all of the new seasons designs.
The Christmas Roadshow will travel to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Newcastle, Perth and Adelaide during the April to June period. Christmas decoration products are highly seasonal and importers don’t like to bring in more stock than they can sell in that season. Retailers who visit the Christmas Roadshow can order their Christmas stock early, ensuring they do not miss the popular new season’s designs that may sell out early and knowing that their order is covered when these suppliers bring in their main stock. As a result they ensure they are not choosing from the leftover products later in the season.
Visiting the Christmas Roadshow exhibits is by appointment. Christmas product retailers can arrange an appointment at their local exhibition with any, or all of, the exhibitor companies using the request form at the Christmas Roadshow Website. The registration form there ensures all participant companies will individually get back to a retailer to arrange a suitable time to view each Christmas products collection.
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