First Halloween at newsXpress Cooma

nxp-cooma.jpgHalloween products are available in Cooma in New South Wales for the first time thanks to the team at newsXpress Cooma.  From witches’ hats to devil’s horns to candy buckets, the newsXpress Cooma team has put together a good mix of fun products to help people in town enjoy the fun of Halloween.  They have done this with the help of newsXpress.

It can be daunting going into a season like Halloween for the first time.  Our newsXpress merchandise experts guide the ordering process as well as in-store visual merchandising.

Halloween fun at Watergardens Town Centre

watergardens_halloween.jpgWe have had Halloween products on sale at our Watergardens Town Centre corporate newsXpress store for more than a month.  Sales have been excellent.  Customers are drawn by the stunning display right at the front of the shop created by renee and maintained by our team.  Customers are coming back for more, they love the range.  We have been fortunate to purchase enough stock for this repeat business, especially given that Halloween is still two weeks away.  Everything is selling well including the most expensive costume and party items. Halloween is hot at Watergardens!

Enjoying Halloween at newsXpress Ascot Vale

ascotvale1.jpgHalloween party goods, dress-up costumes and other Halloween themed products are on show at newsXpress Ascot Vale in Victoria in a terrific in-store display.

From the witch flying between the posters to the bright products on the display units, this is truly great visual merchandising – the photo does not do the in-store display justice.

Walking into newsXpress Ascot Vale, you know you are in a shop where everyone is having fun, not just with Halloween but with general business.  This is retail excellence on show.

From our newsXpress national merchandise team to our on the road Business Development Managers to newsXpress store owners and team members, everyone is working well together to drive an excellent Halloween season.  The photos in this series, including this one from Ascot vale, show what team work can achieve.

newsXpress Harbour Town enjoys Halloween

harbourtown.JPGThe halloween display inside the entrance to newsXpress Harbour Town in Queensland is bold, bright and fun.  The display shows off the newsXpress sourced products and creates a ‘vibe’ at the front of the store which is ertain to help drive other sales.

The harbour Town team has done a terrific job creating this display and giving customers such a good shopping experience.

newsXpress is pleased to see so many newsXpress members embracing Halloween and enjoying the commercial and social opportunity.

Halloween ‘scares’ Main Street Pakenham

nx_pakenham.JPGnewsXpress Pakenham has a terrific Halloween display fronting the busy Main Street.  This display draws customers in.

Once inside the shop, customers are presented a wide variety of excellent (good margin) Halloween product.  The displays give the shop a great vibe and this translates into good business – not only of Halloween product but other products too.

newsXpress members know that retail is all about theatre.  Halloween is a great season to show off embrace the newsXpress point of difference.

Halloween hits Forest Hill in Victoria

forest_hill_halloween.JPGThe team at newsXpress Forest Hill in Victoria has created a stunning window display full of Halloween product from masks to costumes to cobwebs and delicious chocolates.  facing out into the mall, the Halloween display is drawing in customers and generating some excellent sales – proving that even with an older demographic as they have at Forest Hill,  Halloween works well.

newsXpress ‘owns’ Halloween in the newsagency channel.  The fresh marketing collateral provided free to members and the excellent product helps stores create bright displays and tell a great Halloween story.

Halloween fun at newsXpress Goulburn

goulburn.jpgHalloween is on show at newsXpress Goulburn with a range of products from the newsXpress suppliers and use of our Halloween marketing collateral.  This is a reasonably new season for Goulburn – but one with which they are embracing and enjoying.

The Halloween product on display at the front of the shop, facing the mall, draws new shoppers into newsXpress Goulburn.  This traffic boost is one reason newsXpress is so strong in embracing Halloween.

As newsXpress says on the collateral provided free to members: Scary can be fun!

Halloween comes to newsXpress Bairnsdale

nx_bairnsdale.jpgGina from newsXpress Bairnsdale has created a great display promoting Halloween products in-store.  It is in-store theatre like this which excites customers and makes the shop a bright and happy place.  This type of display is key to driving sales.

From the newsXpress provided marketing collateral on the back wall to the hanging skeleton to the bright orange pumpkins, this display looks great.  newsXpress Bairnsdale can be proud!

newsXpress has been driving Halloween opportunities for members for years. 2010 looks like it will be the best year yet!

Corporately, we are thrilled with the engagement from members.  Right across the country, we have newsXpress locations presenting a professional range of product in an exciting and fun way and driving great sales.

Scary newsXpress Seymour

seymour.JPGThe fun of Halloween has been embraced by the team at newsXpress Seymour where ther have a wall full of Halloween product – which is seeling well already.  The product range and the free newsXpress marketing collateral, tells a great story about this fun season.  The bright display sets is a beacon in the shop and provides visual excitement noticed by the customers.

Halloween at newsXpress Scotts Lismore

scorrt_lismore.jpgThe team at newsXpress Scotts Lismore confront customers with a range of fun products the moment they step into the shop on Woodlark Street Lismore.  From witches hats to pitchforks to other costumes, newsXpress Scotts Lismore is showing how to have fun with Halloween.  They love leveraging newspaper and magazine traffic into a good margin Halloween sale.  Their bottom line benefit is the newsXpress difference on show.

Halloween at newsXpress Eli Waters

newsxpress_eli_waters.jpgYou can’t browse magazine at newsXpress Eli Waters without passing their stunning Halloween display.  On show is a range of fun products with which to enjoy Halloween.  This connects with the newsXpress theme of having fun with the Halloween season.  A great Halloween display brings fun to the shop and drives sales in other departments.  Just the team at newsXpress Eli Waters.

newsXpress Glendale embraces Halloween

newsxpress_glendale2.jpgThe team at newsXpress Glendale has embraced Halloween right at the front of their store with a great display of Halloween product, appropriately dressed for this fun season.  The display is capped with some of the A2 posters newsXpress has provided to members for dressing the display and connecting with the fun of Halloween.  The best place to celebrate Halloween in the Glendale region in NSW is newsXpress Glendale.

Professional newsletters for newsXpress members

newsXpress has released a professional newsletter template for newsXpress members to easily customise and use locally to promote group-wide offers.  The newsletters are designed to be placed at the front of newsXpress locations to promote the businesses and the brand.

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As the above example shows, we are promoting the Hallmark sound acrd range, O’Bon environmentally friendly pencils and social stationery, our magazine club card and our exceptional HOT ink! deals.

This newsletter is another free service from newsXpress for members.

Fresh Halloween creative from newsXpress

nxp-halloween_final.jpgnewsXpress has provided members with fresh Halloween marketing collateral.  These double sided A2 posters tap into the fun of the Halloween season.  This collateral will be used by our members to promote Halloween product displays including party goods, costumes, cards, gifts, magazines, calendars and Halloween party cookbooks.

newsXpress has Halloween covered.  From small country town newsXpress member businesses through to large shopping centre locations, newsXpress is the best place to shop for Halloween fun this year.  We have an excellent range of fun merchandise at terrific prices.

newsXpress has built Halloween from a small campaign five years ago into a major season which drives traffic and delivers excellent sales with a healthy, above average for a newsagency, margin.

Most important is the fun of Halloween.  The new newsXpress marketing collateral taps into this and helps newsXpress members and their teams let their hair down and have a good time in business.

This material has been provided free to all newsXpress members.

Three new greenfield locations

newsXpress is pleased to be working with landlords on three new greenfield locations.  All three are expected to be open before Christmas.  Two locations will be owned by newsXpress members and one will be corporately owned.

In each case, newsXpress was approached by the landlord to bring our brand and all we stand for to the centre.

Having a brand which landlords want gives us an opportunity on a range of fronts including negotiating costs going into a new location and other terms around the establishment of the new business.

How we achieved these three new locations is another example off the newsXpress difference in play.

Anyone looking to buy a newsagency should talk with newsXpress as we receive opportunities like these three often.

Christmas promotion launched

newsXpress yesterday launched to members details of our Christmas promotion.  This exciting promotion is filled with traffic generating products which present newsXpress locations as having unique products at competitive prices.  The promotion will be supported by the newsXpress national promotion campaign.

The content of the catalogue and promotional activity will be communicated to newsXpress members privately.

Building a better newsagency

conf_front_page.jpgBuilding a better newsagency is the subject of an important forum at the National Newsagent Conference being hosted by  newsXpress in Melbourne next month.  In this forum, industry experts will present practical ideas which newsagents can take away to immediately build a healthier and more viable newsagency.  The session will build on content from an excellent range of speakers at the two-day conference.  It will be particuylarly useful to new newsagents and those considering buying a newsagency.

newsXpress is proud to be bringing this conference to all newsagents in Australia.  Click here for a copy of the registration form.

newsXpress announces live in-store radio

newsXpress and Retail Radio have joined forces to create newsXpress Radio, an exclusive to newsXpress in-store customer entertainment and advertising platform.

Delivering live news mixed with music, newsXpress Radio will provide a platform off of which newsXpress and its preferred suppliers can help drive incremental sales.

Unlike other in-store radio offers, newsXpress radio will be live between 7am and 6pm. This will ensure up to date real news bulletins. It will also facilitate timely coverage of events in a way which helps drive weekly magazine and daily newspaper sales.

newsXpress radio is another way newsXpress is demonstrating its difference over buying groups. Great buying is no good if this is not backed by strategies which move product. newsXpress has both bases covered.

Supporting the launch of Prevention magazine

nx_prevention.jpgnewsXpress is helping its members support the launch of Prevention magazine next week with the development of a pre-launch flyer for use on the counter and elsewhere in our retail network.  Support for launches, such as what we are doing for Prevention, is another way newsXpress helps its members separate their offer from other newsagencies.  Our marketing team seizes opportunities for initiative to drive sales and present a more exciting and valuable newsagency experience.

This is the newsXpress difference on show.