newsXpress is proud to be the exclusive newsagency channel partner for Red Nose Day again this year. A excellent range of high profile retailers support Red Nose Day including Big W, Target, Blockbuster, Mobil, Dick Smith, Spotlight and Priceline.
newsXpress stores are offering a range of Red Nose Day merchandise in support of fundraising for this important cause.
Across Australia, newsXpress businesses, their owners, employees and connected families take time today to remember the Anzacs and indeed all who have served this great country of ours.
We are privileged in our businesses to connect with local communities in many personal ways. The stories we have heard of bravery and challenges flowing from those who have put their lives on the line for Australia touch our hearts.
So, today, we salute, remember and give thanks for the fallen and all who have served.
The team at newsXpress Albany in Western Australia has created an excellent window display respecting Anzac Day. It is an excellent example of connecting with the local community around a solemn occasion. Their use of the lyrics of the song And the band played Waltzing Matilda is inspirational. Click here to hear the song.
The Anzac Day display covers several windows – beyond the one shown in the photo to the left. Everyone involved at newsXpress Albany ought to be proud of what they have created.
newsXpress received heartfelt appreciation from the Lighthouse Foundation last week for the funds we raised in our Father’s Day campaign last year. In a newsXpress exclusive promotion, every pack of Dad’s Nuts bags from Morish Nuts raised funds for Lighthouse. This is another part of our commitment to social responsibility – connecting newsXpress and member businesses with community organisations.
newsXpress thanks all members for participating in this promotion and helping to make a difference to the work Lighthouse dows in the community.
newsXpress is proud to proactively support the Cartridge Rescue TM service which recycles used printer cartridges.
Each of our stores has a Cartridge Rescue TM box into which customers can drop used cartridges. They are reused and not chipped for landfill. This is a great story for the environment.
The folks behind Cartridge Rescue TM used funds raised from the program to financially support the Royal Flying Doctor Service. This is a great story for social responsibility.
newsXpress is proud to have been connected with this service for years and is please to help the community recycle used printer cartridges.
newsXpress has put together marketing collateral and details of a marketing pack for use in supporting Australia Day 2010. While not a major commercial season, the day provides us with an opportunity to connect with our local community.
Rob Henderson, our National Merchandise Manager, is supporting Movember with his Mo. Rob is doing this in support of The Eastfield cricket club with whom he plays and to raise awareness of prostate cancer during November. The majority of players are growing or have grown facial hair to raise the awareness of the campaign.
If you’d like to support Rob’s fundraising efforts, please click here.
newsXpress radio today has been taking time, Remembrance day 2009, to honour soldiers who have fallen in battle protecting Australia. We are pleased to have a growing network of stores offering newsXpress radio and thereby connecting our in-store retail experience with important days and events.
Shelley Petersen and the team at newsXpress Sarina created a wonderful display of pink giftware in support of Pink Ribbon Day. 50% of sales from all pink (coloured) products will be donated to the Australian Breast Cancer Foundation. The display will be up for a week.
This is a wonderful local initiative at newsXpress Sarina. It shows the business as being socially concerned and demonstrating this in a creative way. They make newsXpress proud.
The initiative is further evidence of why newsXpress Sarina deserves their award of 2009 Queensland Newsagent of the Year.
newsXpress has launched a re-usable fashion black bag that will sit comfortably alongside similar items at major retailers. This bag can be used for items commonly sold in newsXpress locations: newspapers, magazines, ink, cards, gifts. The quality bag is versatile and fashionable. We are certain customers will use the new bag in everyday situations, increasing newsXpress branding in the community. It is an excellent branding investment. This new bag will supersede the red bag currently in the newsXpress range.
In the spirit of putting something back into the community, newsXpress ran a silent auction during our Gala Awards Dinner on Thursday evening. We raised $5,000 for the Lighthouse Foundation, an organisation which provides a safe and nurturing environment for young people.
Suppliers and some newsXpress staff generously provided items for auction and the entire proceeds go to Lighthouse. We had watches, wine, a laptop, a gourmet hamper, chocolates and a giant Hallmark Forever Friends bear.
newsXpress is committed to supporting the community corporately and at the store level – it is the community which provides our future.
In addition to supporting Lighthouse at the Awards Dinner and with our Father’s Day promotion, we have also supported the SIDS Red Nose Day campaign as well as the RSPCA Happy Tails campaign.
We are grateful to everyone who bid of Thursday night for the items up for grabs.
newsXpress is in fine company in its support for the RSPCA’s Happy Tails campaign this year. Check out the list of corporate sponsors at the Happy tails website.
We are supporting Happy Tails with in-store fund raising and promoting awareness for the event. We are happy to contribute as part of our commitment to social responsibility. We feel good about contributing, our customers feel good and the RSPCA benefits.
Our support for Happy Tails is another way newsXpress is promoting its brand away from the more traditional newsagency offer.
newsXpress has partnered with the RSPCA to support their national charity this October. Happy Tails Day is one of the RSPCA’s major fund raising events for the year and we are proud that this national organisation has aligned themselves with newsXpress exclusively as a newsagent partner. In addition to selling fund raising product, newsXpress is participating through several initiatives to raise the profice of the work of the RSPCA. A Happy Tails Day banner also features on our newsXpress website and marketing collateral.
newsXpress has negotiated favourable terms with a leading boxed card designer and manufacturer to provide access to a unique and successful range of Christmas cards. The range will set newsXpress stores apart from other major boxed Christmas card retailers, provide excellent margin and also raise much needed funds for medical research.
The newsXpress terms deliver to our members excellent opportunities for the lucrative Christmas card season.
newsXpress has developed additional marketing collateral for Father’s Day. The new collateral will support our exclusive link with Morish Nuts and the Lighthouse Foundation to raise money for their important work with youth. The Dad’s Nuts Bag is a product exclusive to newsXpress members.
The poster is an excellent example of newsXpress combining social responsibility, business and retail fun in one campaign. $1.00 from every bag sold will go to the work of the Lighthouse Foundation.
The collateral shows off the newsXpress commitment to professional marketing.
newsXpress is proud to support the important work of the The Lighthouse Foundation with an exclusive Father’s Day promotion in partnership with our friends at Morish.
The Lighthouse Foundation was established in 1991 with the mission to reduce youth homelessness. They continue to work with the vision that every child will live in a family environment, within a community that fosters trust and love, and supports young people to grow and develop holistically. Their website has more details on their work and includes opportunities for others to become involved.
newsXpress is proud to be supporting the RSPCA Happy Tails Day campaign. Happy Tails Day is a celebration of the animals that make our lives better. As the RSPCA web says:
All money raised from Happy Tails Day helps the RSPCA care for animals just like Rusty. You can help by purchasing your Happy Tails Day merchandise during September and October either online or from one of our retail partners: BigW, newsXpress, Hill’s Vets, Bendigo Bank and Peter Alexander.
newsXpress is the only newsagency brand supporting this fundraising event.
newsXpress members are embracing our exclusive relationship with the organisers of Red Nose Day with fundraising products selling well in newsXpress locations. We are proud to be the newsagent channel partner for this important charity.
newsXpress members have a range of Red Nose Day product on the counter for sale and to bring awareness to the charity.
newsXpress is proud to be in partnership with the Sids for Kids Red Nose day initiative in 2009. Each newsXpress store has received a counter top merchandise unit with Sids product. All monies raised go towards the ongoing endeavours of the foundation. SIDS and Kids is dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood and to supporting bereaved families.
With 28 days still to go before the celebrated ‘Red Nose Day‘, newsXpress members are already advising of strong sales of merchandise. Several stores have placed re-orders – what a success!
The photo above is the counter top unit in action at newsXpress Kin Kora.
newsXpress Members have commenced stocking the environmentally friendly O’BON range in their stores following the announcement of a commercial relationship between newsXpress and the Stationery supplier.
O’BON have created a great range of social stationery in some exciting fashion designs but with a very modern environmental twist, pencils made from recycled newspaper, notebooks made from sugarcane paper, and binders made from recycled cardboard make this a very impressive retail story.
The photo above features the O’BON range as seen at newsXpress Ascot Vale.