newsXpress Meve in WA is promoting Sharpie pens with Hallmark Christmas cards in an excellent dual brand promotion.
This display is in an excellent location and driving good results for both brands in-store. Connecting the brands in this way is ideal for driving basket depth.
newsXpress negotiates good deals for members and helps turn the deals into cash with shop floor advice and guidance.
newsXpress members have embraced the opportunity for geek-themed Christmas gifts with this range build around the Space Invaders and Pacman ranges.
These gifts are selling well at stores that have taken them, including some of our corporate stores.
We see customers purchasing the items for nostalgia for themselves as well as fir family and friends. The success of the ranges is an excellent example of the value of brands in building strong sales. The result is additional traffic attracted by the geek oriented ranges. Often these are shoppers who would not have visited a newsagency looking for such items.
newsXpress members enjoy wonderful support from Slansen for the Beanie Kids range.
From accessing products to understanding the Beanie collector to tapping into merchandising ideas, newsXpress members have access to best practice opportunities form Skansen.
Our newsXpress Knox City corporate store is driving excellent sales of Beanie Kids by being able to display this in a strong and consistent way. the store regularly moves product – but always together as shown in the photo. Each move unlocks new product opportunities form shoppers.
This display and the handling of beanie products at this store is best practice: good range, well displayed, supported with good knowledge from staff and great shop floor shopper engagement.
Interactive product sales in newsXpress stores have close to doubled in value in 2012 compared to 2011 on a same store basis. This growth has been achieved thanks to wonderful support from suppliers with new interactive products with which to entice shoppers to shop with us.
newsXpress Port Fairy is one newsXpress member embracing the interactive opportunity with a range of products from the Hallmark recordable storybooks to the Chattermunk product. These delightful and engaging products give a wonderful experience. they are a wonderful gift to give and a terrific product to have on the shop floor.
By engaging with interactive products from a number of suppliers, newsXpress members are able to tell a better retail story and drive a better commercial outcome. This is money in the bank!
Despite concerns over political correctness, the Golliwog range provided through newsXpress stores this year has been a raging success with stores selling out, reordering and selling out again.
Curated through one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers and guided by our national merchandise team, the Golliwog range has been a hit in-store.
Happy customers and happy newsXpress members = a perfect win win for a newsXpress supported initiative. We are thrilled to have leveraged our produce knowledge and supplier relationship to help newsXpress members benefit in a more valuable way.
newsXpress Craigieburn is having fun selling Snoozies to shoppers in-store.
These wonderful feet warmers are a terrific talking point among shoppers … something that is facilitated by placement of the high-profile Snoozies spinner in a high-traffic location in-store.
newsXpress members have been engaging with Snoozies for months now with excellent sales success. In addition to accessing the product at a competitive price, newsXpress advice on placement is helping drive excellent sales across our retail network.
newsXpress Ascot Vale is promoting an excellent mix of child related toys and activity gifts from our friends at Independent Studios.
This range of quality and well merchandised products is a wonderful addition to any newsXpress store. It presents well on shelves and is easily purchased on impulse by shoppers in the store for other items.
Independent Studios has some excellent products ideal for impulse purchase.
newsXpress Ascot Vale is a beacon store in Ascot Vale, drawing shoppers for their excellent range of gifts … making them a destination store for locals.
newsXpress Eliminyt is having fun with the beanie Boos range of plush. Selling well from perfect placement adjacent to the main counter, these cute plush items are selling a treat for the business from the easy to shop round spinner.
Many newsXpress stores are reporting success with Beanie Boos from our friends at Big Balloon. They are easy to sell and purchased for many different occasions.
Featured at our last round of member meetings. The range has been taken up by high street, shopping centre and regional members. for some it is their entry into plush while for others it is an extension of an already strong plush offering.
In almost every situation Beanie Boos is working well for newsXpress.
The new style Cheeki water bottle stand at Ascot vale is helping boost sales of the safe (BPA free) drink containers from our friends at Cheeki.
the stand hosts a range of Cheeki product and presents it in a professional and attractive way – helping each retailer with the stand to connect with the brand in a way certain to drive a better sales outcome.
Cheeki is a long term partner of newsXpress and a valued member of our preferred supplier community.
newsXpress Parkmore is promoting AFL related merchandise with this display representing products from three newsXpress preferred suppliers.
Drawing products together like this from different suppliers for a common focus / goal is a smart move. The result is a more compelling display, a display other retailers are not likely to copy.
newsXpress is able to help members pull displays like this together by connecting members with the suppliers involved.
newsXpress Parkmore has created a wonderful display of religious gifts, showing off the range in a creative and professional way … respectful of the nature of the gifts.
This is an excellent display covering not only gifts but cards too … creative and tactical merchandising. It’s an example other retailers could follow, in any situation.
The use of a backdrop helps bring the display to life and make it more likely to be seen by shoppers. This is an excellent display.
Giggle & Hoot is a hit TV series shown in Australia in the ABC. Our friends at Jasnor have a wonderful line of Giggle & Hoot merchandise and newsXpress Wetherill Park has this on display, facing shoppers as they walk into the business.
Connecting with loved brands is a core message newsXpress has promoted for years. It is easier to sell a product connected with a well known brand than a no name brand product in the same category. In the kids space this is especially true as parents, grandparents and friends like to make kids happy.
Merchandising the Giggle & Hoot range as has been done at Wetherill Park is key to making the most of the opportunity. Shoppers will notice the brand if presented in this way … more than if the products were part of a larger display.
newsXpress can help members get into this and other branded ranges. We can do this through our preferred suppliers and with access to newsXpress pricing and other benefits which can help drive sales.
Well done newsXpress Wetherill Park.
With the Lolita glasses range having been a huge success in newsXpress stores across Australia, it is no surprise that the shot glasses range is on display.
Covering a range of gift giving occasions, the shot glasses are a simple yet fin gift, a wonderful compliment to a card purchased form a newsXpress store.
The best location for the shot glasses, like any gifts, is adjacent to or near the card department. Since customers won;t walk in with shot glasses as a destination, they need to be presented as a viable option. hence the tactical placement with or near cards.
inkoos have started arriving in stores following the recent round of members meetings and they are looking terrific on display. These wonderful cute things come packaged with everything you need to create a wonderful keepsake.
Shoppers buy inkoos for themselves or as a gift.
newsXpress members who have ordered are ahead of the curve and are getting established as the go to retailers to make the most of the opportunity.
newsXpress is leading and delivering wonderful opportunities for newsXpress members – great products backed with great merchandising ideas and supported with marketing assistance to drive traffic and sales. Talk about a win!
Check out the window display at newsXpress Whitford City. For a Western Australian based business with some parochial shoppers in the centre this is a good display showing off AFL products from a newsXpress preferred supplier.
This display shows off to customers in the centre that the business offers range. The subtle message is that you’ll find what you are looking for here. And shoppers do. Jim and the team have a wonderful business with an excellent range of products from newsXpress preferred suppliers.
The team at newsXpress Eli waters has created a terrific display promoting baby products – facing shoppers as they enter the business. This display leverages existing traffic and draws new shoppers who can see the display from outside the business. It’s fresh and appealing … different to the older style newsagency display.
All the products in the display have been sourced from newsXpress preferred suppliers. newsXpress get preferential pricing and other benefits.
newsXpress has in-house resources to help members range these products, display them and market them to shoppers outside their businesses.
newsXpress members right across Australia love beanie Boos. Sales are excellent throughout our retail network. Thanks to smart advice on in-store engagement and supplier support newsXpress members are banking excellent results. This is another bottom line success story from newsXpress. newsXpress members are raving … loving the results.
The latest growth has been helped by supplier advice and support at our latest round of newsXpress member meetings.
Whether displayed in the spinner or on the wall, newsXpress members love these little critters and the incremental business they are generating.
newsXpress members benefit more than others.
newsXpress Riverlink has been running a wonderful baby display in the shop window – showing off products from newsXpress preferred suppliers.
Click on the image to see the display in detail.
Talk about professional! This display is driving traffic and sales – showing off the value of playing outside the usual in the newsagency space to chase traffic and sales. Well done newsXpress Riverlink!
Big Balloon is another newsXpress preferred supplier enjoying tremendous success from the latest round of newsXpress member meetings.
The engagement between newsXpress members and Big Balloon is commercially valuable for supplier and member as information is shared on how to drive sales of the wonderful range of products on offer.
We have allocated plenty of time in the sessions to enable newsXpress members and suppliers to not only look at products but to share ideas for driving sales and shopper traffic.
A common theme of this round of member meetings is the sales success being reported. What retail slump? is a common theme.
newsXpress is thrilled to be facilitating such valuable business-building opportunities with suppliers.
newsXpress Caboolture has setup a terrific gift display featuring a small selection of the broad and wonderful range of gifts they have in-store. This display uses excellent visual merchandising techniques to make the products the hero, to draw attention to them and thereby increase the spend of shoppers in-store.
newsXpress offers members access to a range of visual merchandising skills and assistance so that our member businesses can make the most of wonderful preferred supplier opportunities.
newsXpress visual merchandising advice ranges from consulting to in-store training to education at member meetings.