newsXpress is proud to welcome newsXpress Runaway Bay to the group.
This new newsXpress store opened for trading on Sunday after a couple of weeks of intense activity bringing the business to life.
In the photo, left to right, we have Greg (Team member) Sam (Owner) Tom (Sam’s brother) Melissa (Team member) and Justin (Team member). Welcome everyone, newsXpress Runaway Bay is open for business.
Ian ‘Macca” McNamarra from ABC Radio’s Australia All Over visited newsXpress Toronto on Thursday promoting his latest book – Say G’Day. The Lakes Mail newspaper had the story and a couple of photos.
Macca’s visit was a coup for newsXpress Toronto and generated plenty of trafffic for the store and kudos for the newsXpress brand. Well done to Andrew and the team for organising this.
newsXpress Whittlesea is promoting the Junior MasterChef mook along with the range of Junior MasterChef cooking kits.
This display is situated next to the main newspaper stand, attracting maximum eyeballs and driving good impulse business.
The newsXpress merchandise team sourced the Junior MasterChef cooking kits along with the cut-through display stand and stock of the Junior MasterChef mook for newsxpress members – to leverage the maximum opportunity flowing from the high rating TV series.
newsXpress is the only newsagency marketing group to leverage the MasterChef brand since the magazine first launched months ago – creating excellent exclusive opportunities for our members.
newsXpress Roselands is running a HUGE and successful outpost at Roselands Shopping Centre. Featuring the full range of Hallmark Christmas product and plenty of wonderful Christmas gifts and decorations, this outpost is a testament to excellent work from Vinay and the team at newsXpress Roselands.
newsXpress proactively supports outposting as an excellent strategy for extending revenue in shopping centre situations at major seasonal times like Christmas.
newsXpress Noosa Heads is another newsXpress location enjoying success with the Junior MasterChef range sourced for newsXpress members by our national merchandise team.
The Junior MasterChef range is delivering excellent margin dollars to newsXpress members.
We are the only newsagency marketing group with the product – further demonstrating the commercial value of newsXpress membership.We have backed the product with Visual Merchandising ideas as well as tactical placement ideas. newsXpress isnot onyl delivering great product but also showing our members how to leverage the opportunity to the max.
The Junior MasterChef cooking sets are a wonderful and ideal complement to the Junior MasterChef mook which is also selling very well in newsXpress stores.
newsXpress Buderim is having a good Christmas with a range of games sourced through one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers. The display in the photo is a hit with customers at Buderim.
The range of popular games is available at very competitive prices while retaining a good margin – for newsXpress members.
newsXpress has been helping members right across Australia source great Christmas gifts like these games. They make an ideal and easy purchase this time of the year. We’re having a great Christmas 2010!
Congratulations to newsXpress Wetherill Park for winning the Stockland General Retailer of the Year Award. Great kudos for a wonderful team … doing the newsXpress brand proud.
newsXpress Pakenham and Rob McGregor, their oldest paperboy were, in the news yesterday with a wonderful story on page 22 of the Herald Sun. Rob McGregor has been delivering newspapers for 52 years and the folks at the Herald Sun covered this achievement online on Thursday and yesterday in the newspaper.
Rob is shown in the photo in front of his colleagues from newsXpress Pakenham.
What a terrific story for Rob and for newsXpress Pakenham – showing the value of genuine loyalty over many owners of this newsagency.
newsXpress Redcliffe has a great range of graduation and teacher related gifts on show on this display facing into the mall.
With graduation and teacher gifts displays uncommon, newsXpress stores like Redcliffe are doing well by promoting the season in such a bold and comprehensive way. Of course, sales are the measure of success … yes, they are great!
The display is blocked by gift category as well as by colour. Attention to such detail makes it visually appealing and practically compelling.
Sourced through newsXpress preferred suppliers, graduation and teacher gifts are a perfect add-on to a greeting card sale.
newsXpress Bairnsdale has a terrific display promoting the Hallmark recordable storybook and interactive photo album range.
This aisle end display is driving good business for the innovative range of products from newsXpress strategic partner Hallmark.
From the Christmas storybook to others the wonderful interactive photo albums, newsXpress Bairnsdale is bringing innovation to town and driving good business as a result. Promoting all interactive related products in this one display is designed to drive multiple purchases. It is working.
Well done to everyone involved at Bairnsdale!
newsXpress Shoreline in Tasmania is promoting an excellent range of calendars and a great range of Christmas cards right at the front of their store. The compelling offers attract shoppers to the store. Beautifully segmented across the entrance, shopping is easy and impulse purchase encouraged. Well done to everyone at newsXpress Shoreline for a clean, professional and compelling entrance.
The team newsXpress Bairnsdale has put together a good display promoting teacher and graduation gifts to customers shopping in the store. This is an excellent seasonal opportunity, especially in rural and regional locations. The cross over between gifts and greeting cards makes the promotion ideal for a newsagency. The key is promotion in a good high traffic location, as they have created at newsXpress Bairnsdale.
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The team at newsXpress Ascot Vale got in the Melbourne Cup spirit this week with jockey outfits replacing their traditional newsXpress uniforms. Being the closest newsagency to the hallowed Flemington racecourse where the Melbourne Cup is run, it is fitting that the Ascot Vale team got behind the carnival. It looks like they had fun on the day!
newsXpress Knox is promoting the HOT Ink! sale and the Blackhawk gift card range at the entrance to the store with a couple of in-house printed A2 posters.
The Gift Card poster in particular has driven a measureable increase in sales. With ink it is harder to tell because of the flyer campaign which is currently on foot.
newsXpress provides the artwork for these in-store posters so that stores can print to the size which suits their needs: A4, A3 or A2.
At newsXpress Knox, the posters are changed every week, cycling between newsXpress collateral and key product collateral. In deciding what to promote in these highly visible locations, we select products and services which will attract new traffic to the business.
newsXpress Gympie had a great day at the races recently for the running of the 2010 Connolly’s newsXpress Flying Handicap.
Community events like this promote the sponsoring business, newsXpress Gympie, and the newsXpress brand widely – beyond the local reach of the store.
Christmas has already come at newsXpress Ocean Grove,check out this impressive display. The display is drawing good attention and sales are already humming along. The team at newsXpress Ocean Grove has made several changes in their store to create this display. They have reconfigured their approach to newspapers and removed first two sections of the magazine fixture to open up the card are.
newsXpress Toorak Village has setup an excellent calendar display in-store. Boasting a large range of calendars from newsXpress preferred suppliers, the 2011 calendar range at newsXpress Toorak Village is most impressive. It features calendars for a broad range of interests and ages. Well done to everyone involved in creating this terrific calendar offer! Click on the image to see a larger version of the photo.
Meet Sally Murphy one of the owners of newsXpress Emerald in North Queensland. Sally dressed up as “Roxie the Dalmatian” in support of the RSPCA Happy Tails Day – a fund raising drive supported by newsXpress nationally in association with the RSPCA.
All team members at newsXpress Emerald dressed up as their favourite dog for this day.
Congratulations to Sally and the team for engaging in this promotion in such a practical and fun way.
newsXpress Young has opened a full Optus agency in-store and held a GRAND OPENING on Saturday to launch the Optus range to the people of Young. The launch was supported by newsXpress preferred supplier, Jenlist. The customers were excited and the local radio station, 2LF, broadcast details of special offers from the store.
It was a great launch with a sausage sizzle out front – driving a wonderful community spirit. Congratulations to everyone at newsXpress Young for delivering the Optus agency to the town.
newsXpress Gympie was a proud feature of the Gympie Gold Rush Street Parade in the weekend.
Warrick Hosking and the team did newsXpress proud with a strong presence and giving out water bottles and newsXpress caps.
A terrific community spirit and proactive businesses made the Gympie Gold Rush Street Parade a successful event of which newsXpress Gympie was proud to be part.