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Spring Fair is the crucial launch showcase for thousands of exciting new products each year, to a retail audience hungry for new ideas and strong selling design. We’re celebrating British design with the new ‘creative Britain’ initiative, plus watch out for the new ‘Exclusive’ brand being introduced across Autumn and Spring Fair to highlight exclusive product launches at the shows. www.springfair.com

Summer Fair London is the edited, sister event to Spring Fair and Autumn Fair, presenting a fresh, vibrant mix of brands and newcomers from both the UK and overseas at the optimum point in the mid-year buying calendar. The inaugural event will take place in London at ExCeL from 17–20 June 2007.  www.summerfair.com

Autumn Fair is the most important gift and home show of the season, bringing together 32,500 buyers from around the world and over 2,000 major brands, key suppliers and independent designers.  Autumn Fair is proud to sponsor the Under £10 award and would like to congratulate all the winners and finalists.  www.autumnfair.com 

Many gift trade magazines have come and gone but there is only one publication that is number one on the gift industry’s reading list and that is Progressive Gifts & Home Worldwide. Progressive Gifts is also the home of The ‘Greats’ Gift Retailer Awards. Progressive Gifts & Home Worldwide, the undisputed market leader.  www.max-publishing.co.uk

Streamline Merchant Services is a service provided by a part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group with the scale and expertise to help businesses of all sizes realise their true profit potential by accepting cards. Whether the transaction is at point-of-sale, by mail order, on the Internet or over the telephone we have the widest range of card processing in place to help make a real difference to your bottom line.  www.streamline.com

Gift Focus is an essential read for all those working in the giftware industry. Offering editorial integrity and excellence in design, the magazine is informed and informative, always first to report on new trends and product launches. Telephone 01376 535 609 for further details, or access our established website: www.giftfocus.com

The Giftware Review prides itself on being the magazine of choice for discerning buyers. Its colourful pages are packed with all that’s new as well as tips and trends from key industry players. This is the place to flaunt your new lines to ensure they get the exposure they deserve.  www.giftwarereview.net

T H March are the leading Insurance Broker to the UK's Gift and Home Industry in addition to being the association's appointed Broker. We have developed a range of insurance solutions for the industry with premium concessions for GA members. Offering a high level of service with attractive premiums has seen many GA Members choose T H March.  www.thmarch.co.uk

The Copywatch team consists of highly qualified and experienced Intellectual Property lawyers from Eversheds and Halliwells who accompany the GA at a large number of gift and home trade fairs each year to offer on-the-spot advice to members on design protection. They offer half an hour free legal advice and the following four hours at a significantly discounted rate.  www.ga-uk.org

Bibby distribution provides a portfolio of supply chain services ranging from managing the importing of products, through storage, value added service and delivery to the end user. Bibby Distribution has a successful reputation built on its expertise in providing logistics solutions that meet the needs of the customer. For the smaller customer, benefits are provided through economies of scale and flexibility in our approach.  www.bibbydist.co.uk

Moving parcels? Booksellers Carriage Ltd move thousands of parcels each week from warehouse to high street, across the UK. As well as offering a fast reliable service and highly competitive rates, our additional level of customer service gives a first rate experience to our clients. For information please visit www.booksellerscarriage.com or call David Bowen on 01202 886 880. 

As an expanding group CBG understands Private Healthcare is a highly specialised market, which offers a wide choice of covers and options. CBG have a dedicated Healthcare team, with many years of specialist experience, whom are able to advise and recommend on specific plans to meet all client’s demands and needs, in a personal and professional manner.  www.cbg-group.co.uk