newsXpress East Maitland is another of the newsXpress locations which has been promoting the Virgin Mobile Broadband offer in-store diving sales of Virgin Mobile products and providing shoppers an opportunity to win one of two scooters valued at over $2,000 in a newsXpress exclusive in-store promotion.
We are thrilled to bring such exciting retail competitions and margin boosting opportunities to newsXpress members.
newsXpress Bairnsdale has been promoting Better Homes and Gardens magazine with this excellent high-impac in-location display in-store. It’s bold, attention-grabbing and successful. Having been up since the launch of the magazine it is the type of display which accounts for excellent success for Better Homes and Gardens at newsXpress Bairnsdale in country Victoria.
Better Homes and Gardens is from pacific magazines a strategic partner of newsXpress. We have only two strategic partners – Hallmark Cards and Pacific Magazines.
Thanks to Pacific Magazines, newsXpress members have access to floor stock to enable us to get replenishment stock while other retailers sell out. This helps us achieve our fullest sales potential.
Displays like this one at newsXpress Bairnsdale for a key Pacific Magazines title is part of our commitment to support their titles. The reward is wonderful sales growth.
newsXpress Wollongbar has been promoting Virgin Mobile Broadband at the entrance to the newsagency, right at the sales counter. The Virgin Mobile offer is one which has been running right across the newsXpress network as part of a commitment around mobile recharge margin. This simple tactical placement is all about driving brand awareness and leveraging impulse purchases of the Virgin Mobile Broadband offer.
newsXpress Rutherglen slightly trimmed display space allocated to magazines and introduced an expansion to the gift offer in-store – as shown in the photo.
The change at newsXpress Ruthergen was completed as part of magazine range review and the result, thanks to a small shop fitting change is this selection of homewares gifts next to magazines.
While we understand and respect magazines and their very important place in the product mix in a vibrant and growing newsXpress store, occasionally, thanks to a data based range review, we are able to unlock space for more product, This is what has been done at newsXpress Rutherglen – creating a win win … magazine sales growth and gift sales growth.
The move at newsXpress Rutherglen was achieved with a very small capital investment for a good commercial outcome. This is excellent for the business and for the newsXpress preferred suppliers who now have better representation in the business.
retail today is all about serving the customer. This requires data based business decisions tweaking and finessing your business to serve your customers. This is exactly what is being done at newsXpress Rutherglen.
Congratulations to newsXpress Grovedale for winning an award from ACP magazines for this display for Wheels magazine.
We love this display as it brings to life the magazine it is promoting in a way which will connect with the target purchaser of the title … perfect for visual merchandising.
newsXpress believes in magazines and feels that they play an important role in traffic generation and basked building in newsXpress newsagency businesses across Australia.
Congratulations to everyone at newsXpress Grovedale who made this display happen … it’s excellent!
newsXpress Parkmore at Parkmore Shopping Centre in Victoria is promoting Beanie Kids with this excellent in-store display printing the range.
Available from one of our preferred suppliers, the beanie Kid range is developing as a terrific newsXpress success story, delivering excellent traffic growth and basked building sales for each business in which the opportunity is installed.
newsXpress Parkmore is providing excellent space and great customer service for the beanie Kid range. This is another example of smart engagement around a trusted brand … a great way to grow retail sales on today’s marketplace.
With more than one hundred newsXpress newsagencies booked for our national conference in Melbourne next month there is no doubt that it will be the biggest newsagent conference event outside of the ACP Connections conference held last year in Sydney.
We are thrilled with the member support of the conference and the EXCLUSIVE Toy Fair buying events being held the day before the conference. Tapping into commercially valuable and exclusive buying opportunities at Toy Fair will help newsXpress members to broader their product mix, network and learn from experts about success with toys.
The conference, pre-conference buying day and Eureka Tower Cocktail Party will provide us with an excellent focus for success in 2012 and beyond. The agenda provides for some value-packed announcements for newsXpress members.
newsXpress will be announcing details of several news members at its conference next month in Melbourne. The latest new member acquisitions are in New South Wales and Queensland and are as a result of our rigorous member vetting process which looks for proactive newsagents committed to growing their businesses with newsXpress.
The new members are signed up and ready to roll from the start of March.
In addition to looking for members who want to engage with our strategies and programs, we look for members who can add to the body of the group. We know that growth is a collective and mutually respectful experience.
newsXpress members continue to enjoy excellent sales success with the My family stickers from The Sticker Family. The photo shows a family making their purchase selections at one of our member stores just a couple of days ago. Parents, grandparents and extended families are identifying their family units with the fun stickers on the rear windows of cars, windows at home and on fridges with the wonderful range of fridge magnets.
Key to the success of the My Family stickers is the placement of the pull up banner at the front of the newsagency. Every day it draws shoppers to the business and they purchase not only My Family stickers but also other items in-store.
The Sticker Family range is a tremendous success story for newsXpress, a success story which is loved by customers and newsXpress members alike.
The latest sales data shows that there is tremendous success sill to be had from the My Family sticker range.
Several newsXpress member newsagencies are running a Coke and a magazine campaign thanks to the wonderful assistance of the marketing team at newsXpress Strategic Partner Pacific Magazines.
The very special Coke and a Pacific magazine offer – New Idea, Who, That’s Life and Famous – is designed as a basket builder and a value reinforcer at the sales counter.
Supported with professional marketing collateral, the offer is a key value-add pitch at the counter of participating newsXpress locations.
This is the first step in an exciting new Coke relationship for newsXpress members … watch this space more deals and offers as they come down the line and onto newsXpress sales counters.
Who magazine out tomorrow is a special Whitney Houston tribute issue. newsXpress members are receiving bonus collateral as well as access to extra floor stock to enable them reaching their full sales potential. these EXCLUSIVE benefits are part of the newsXpress / Pacific Magazines strategic partnership. Who magazine sales should be through the roof with this issue.
Woman’s Day is also coming out with a Whitney Houston special issue. This will be out tomorrow for many newsXpress stores rather than the usual Monday on-sale. details on this were communicated to members in our weekly email communication yesterday.
newsXpress Radio shared the news of Whitney Houston’s passing just a few minutes after it was first exported our of the US. Our network of stores was first with the news for many shoppers in-store with us at the time.
Click here to hear how the death of Whitney Houston was announced in-store on our live in-store radio network. People will remember where they were when they head the news of Whitney’s death and it’s good to demonstrate our relevance as a news source – thanks to the live in-store newsXpress radio operation.
newsXpress is bringing in business conference MC expert and comedian Elliot Goblet to host our national conference next month in Melbourne. The award-winning Goblet is already studying up on newsXpress to help make the day unique as well as fun, to ensure that we offer not only a memorable experience but one which is truly valuable to the newsXpress members and supplier who share the event.
As anyone who has attended a business conference hosted by Goblet will know, he strikes the right chord between entertainment and business and keeps the day moving at a good pace.
With just one month until the newsXpress national conference in Melbourne places are filling fast. The agenda is out and attracting more member interest as is the level of support from suppliers which is enabling newsXpress to contribute toward travel costs of members attending the conference.
With Eliot Goblett as MC for the day, an excellent line up of speakers, enticing suppliers offers and an evening event planned for high above melbourne, the conference is set to be not only valuable form a business perspective but also personally memorable.
Only newsXpress members and preferred suppliers have access to this event.
newsXpress stores across Australia are promoting Virgin Mobile handsets, SIM packs and recharge with this promotional display unit strategically placed in a high traffic location.
organised through newsXpress preferred supplier Jenlist, the Virgin Mobile promotion is exclusive to newsXpress. On offer to shoppers is a chance to win one of three Torino Motor Scooters valued at $2400.00 each. This is exclusive to newsXpress.
By placing the display unit in a good location and engaging with shoppers, newsXpress stores can drive sales of handsets and SIM packs and drive recharge business.
With so many people travelling around Australia on holidays, now is the perfect time for promoting the newsXpress phone card. This exclusive newsXpress branded phonecard is an excellent value phonecard, offering access to low cost calls inside Australia as well as overseas.
This is a what you see is what you get phonecard. There are no hidden fees or charges. It offers excellent value and wonderful customer service.
Every time the newsXpress phonecard is used, customers connect withy the newsXpress brand. The money they save, the calls they make, the service they receive … these all connect with the newsXpress brand.
Now is the perfect time for newsXpress members to be promoting the newsXpress phonecard and offering it to regular customers as well as to those travelling in our areas.
The newsXpress phonecard is a product of which we are most proud.
newsXpress Ocean Grove continues to enjoy success with Cheeki water bottles. Having embraced the opportunity when first presented in 2010, newsXpress Ocean Grove continues to enjoy good sales with this line of safe water bottle products. Safer than plastic and many other water bottles, the Cheeki range is something newsXpress stores can be proud to offer.
newsXpress launched the range of Cheeki stainless steel water bottles in 2010 and what a success they have been!
newsXpress has made Cheeki a success for members with range and merchandising advice, pricing which delivers an excellent margin to newsXpress members and with vital information to help team members sell the benefits of the Cheeki product.
Cheeki bottles … the newsXpress difference in action.
One newsXpress store which embraced the exclusive calendar deal put to newsXpress members ten days prior to Christmas has banked thousands in sales in just seven days leading to Christmas. This will easily double as calendar sales switch into top gear over the next two weeks. This newsXpress member stands to bank in excess of $6,000 in GP … all thanks to an exclusive deal negotiated by newsXpress with one of Australia’s top calendar companies.
newsXpress is proud to have been able to offer newsXpress such an excellent deal which has been such a tremendous success for newsXpress members who took up the offer.
Thanks to central buying for the group and moving quickly, newsXpress was able to maximise the return for group members. Our quick move denied others an opportunity for similar buying as we took all available stock.
This is the newsXpress difference in action … excellent margin dollars achieved from brand name products purchased at a better price than any other retailer in Australia.
newsXpress has an excellent relationship with more than 100 key suppliers to newsagents and similar businesses. Thanks to the efforts of our merchandise team we make the most of these opportunities, enabling newsXpress members to bank excellent results.
newsXpress members across Australia are enjoying the opportunity of exclusive access to the Better Homes and Gardens Recipe Collection from our strategic partner Pacific Magazines.
This display at newsXpress Riverlink is typical of the high impact excellent location display being employed to promote the exclusive to newsXpress opportunity.
The Better Homes and Gardens Recipe Collection makes for an excellent Christmas gift.
The value to newsXpress members is enhanced thanks to the excellent margin negotiated by the group.
newsXpress members are fortunate to be able to introduce the magnetic version of the My Family stickers, leveraging off the already popular My Family sticker range.
The My Family sticker fridge magnets are already selling newsXpress locations which have taken up the offer. Promoted on the My Family sticker pull up banner, the fridge magnets give families another way of connecting. They make an excellent Christmas gift for families, especially those living away from their immediate family.
Offering the My Family stickers fridge magnets is another point of difference for newsXpress, demonstrating the value of respected supplier relationships and leveraging the wonderful support from proactive newsXpress members.
newsXpress members have a fresh reason to promote the My Family stickers using the pull up banner and the fridge magnet poster at the front of the shop as shopper traffic increases through to Christmas.