newsXpress Nambour promotes toys and nooks

newsXpress Nambour is having fun promoting toys and nooks with this placement in a good location in-store.  Click on the image to see a larger version.

Toys are proving to be a lucrative category for newsXpress stores.  they fit beautifully with greeting card sales.  They also attract new traffic during school holidays.  Both offer excellent opportunities for driving incremental business.

newsXpress merchandise deals see toys and nooks land in our stores at competitive prices.

Eli Waters Uses newsXpress Collateral

toy-eliw.JPGnewsXpress Eli Waters is making good use of some of the new newsXpress marketing collateral to promote their Toy Sale.

This new collateral is part of an extensive marketing kit made available to newsXpress members earlier this year. Covering more than thirty marketing opportunities, the collateral pack is the largest of its type in the newsagency channel. It is helping newsXpress members attract new shoppers and drive a more efficient shopping basket.

Well done to newsXpress Eli Waters for embracing the Toy Sale opportunity.

Toys Selling Well in Gatton

toys-gatton.JPGnewsXpress Gatton is enjoying good sales from their toy department.

Thanks to great deals available from newsXpress preferred suppliers, members like newsXpress Gatton have excellent buying opportunities with which to fill their shelves and drive excellent business.

Many newsXpress members are enjoying good success with toys thanks not only to the great buying but also the marketing support through our newsXpress collateral pack.

Kites selling well at Knox City

knox-kites.JPGnewsXpress Knox located at the Knox City Shopping Centre has been ejoying good sales of Kites as part of its recent hoilday toy sale.  The range of branded and unbranded kites sold very well for the business, providing for many happy Knox City shoppers.

Sourced through one of our preferred suppliers at an exceptional buy price, the kites have been delivering an excellent margin to the business, considerably above what is usual in the toy category.  This is another newsXpress buying difference playing out and delivering a good benefit.

The kites also worked well at attracting shoppers.  Many of the shoppers entering newsXpress Knox to look at the kites hanging above the product purchased other items.

Bonus Toy Products Promote Value

games.JPGPlenty of newsXpress locations are enjoying success with toy products thanks to bonus deals from our toy supplier.  Being able to sell a brand name game like Monopoly with a bonus name brand game for free helps us play is a completely unique space when it comes to the pricing of toys and games.  It is deals like this which allow newsXpress outlets to demonstrate excellent value and show off the newsXpress difference.  The deals enable us to compete with big toy outlets like Big W, target and K Mart without having to compete on price – and we get to do this while maintaining a healthy and above average margin. All of this is available to newsXpress members thanks to the excellent work of our national merchandise team.  Better buying is what makes us competitive.

Toys on Sale at newsXpress Ocean Grove

toys-oceangrove.JPGThe Toy Sale at newsXpress Ocean Grove has been working a treat, delivering excellent basket building business for the store.

Displayed in a high traffic location and showing off a terrific range from one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers, this Toy Sale demonstrates the newsXpress difference in action – access to excellent product at competitive prices delivering incremental and financially valuable business to a newsXpress member.

Being competitive is important in today’s retail world and newsXpress certainly delivers, through its suppliers, plenty of competitive opportunities.

Toys a hit at newsXpress Pakenham

gifts-toys-pakenham.JPGActivity is the name off the game at newsXpress Pakenham with this toy display.  The display featured and promotes activity and this is vital in any toy display.  Kids are drawn to the display and their interaction encourages parents to purchase.

The display in the photo had more items but many have sold and replacements are on the way.  The floor mat has been particularly successful in attracting engagement from kids and drawing attention of parents.

Animated Plush a Hit at Riverlink

toys-riverlink.JPGThese animated plush dogs have been a hit at newsXpress Riverlink with the store selling 24 in just a matter of days.

Released at our last trade display which accompanied the one-day member meeting, these excellent margin plush items have generated excellent traffic and sales not only for newsXpress Riverlink but many newsXpress stores across the country.

Like a smart retailer enjoying a good thing, Riverlink ordered more of these plush items … they work a treat at the front of the store.

Toy Sale at newsXpress Eli Waters

eli-toysale.JPGnewsXpress Eli Waters has been running a Toy Sale based on products from our newsXpress toy preferred suppliers and using marketing collateral which is part of the local marketing it released to newsXpress members earlier this year.

The display looks terrific and is drawing good attention … driving basket size as many shoppers would not have entered the newsagency looking to purchase toys.  Well dome Eli Waters team!

The exclusive and extensive marketing collateral toolkit from newsXpress is providing members with a wonderful range of in-store as well as external promotional opportunities.

newsXpress Embraces Toys

toynetworx.JPGToy Networx and All Brands Toys have been participating in the trade display which accompanies our current one-day conferences around Australia.  They have been offering excellent buying opportunities.

With so many newsXpress stores now enjoying success with toys, the latest offers are welcome as stores stock up for the mid year season, especially the next round of school holidays.

The toys, games, plush and other items are wonderful basket building products, enhancing the margin banked from each sale. They are perfect for leveraging the traffic generated by newsXpress marketing, delivering a solid margin result for newsXpress members.

The newsXpress difference is how we guide newsXpress members to leverage the toy opportunity in the context of the overall newsXpress business development campaign.

Toys on show at Ascot Vale

toys-ascotvale.JPGnewsXpress Ascot Vale has been running a terrific toy display in their front window.  Featuring toys from newsXpress preferred suppliers, the feature of this window display is Timbertop range of  dolls houses.  Shoppers on street stop to look at the display  … a key goal of any window display in retail.

Take a look at the photo and compare this window display to what you see in other newsagency windows.

The Timbertop range is not what shoppers may expect from their average high street newsagency … but then newsXpress Ascot is not your average high street newsagency.  This innovative business always offers a broad range of products and does the newsXpress brand proud.

newsXpress toy strategy delivering results

beechworth-toys.JPGnewsXpress Beechworth is another store reporting excellent results with toys.

Thanks to the resources of our toy partners, newsXpress stores have access to an excellent range of toys from small impulse lines to high ticket price popular brand lines.

newsXpress Beechworth has a toy department which is a fun destination for kids and a place of wonderful gift ideas for adults.  Thanks to our suppliers, toys are back in business at newsXpress stores.