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The newsXpress difference has been on show at cluster meetings over recent weeks as we meet with and listen to members. These meetings are open, consultative and focused on business growth for newsXpress members.

Rather than using the meetings to push and push supplier deals, these meetings are about growing even stronger and more valuable newsXpress businesses.

Newsagents switching to our group love the meetings, they love the networking and they love that meetings are not a stream of suppliers peddling their wares.

The cluster meetings are a genuine and loved newsXpress difference.

This is a best practice placement we recommend to newsagents:

Congratulations to the lucky newsXpress Monier is selling a first division winning ticket in last night’s lotto draw!

Not really, we are not really scaring people, not in a bad way at least. No, we’re in the middle of Halloween fun and boy, it’s FUN!

Halloween 2015 is proving to be a valuable retail season!

Congratulations to newsXpress Meve for selling the winning ticket in last night’s $15M OzLotto draw.

newsXpress proudly promotes its preferred suppliers at conferences and other events with a pull up banner, slides and other collateral showing off suppliers we support.

newsXpress is thrilled to confirm that Elliot Goblet will be MC and host for our national conference next month in Melbourne. Elliot was loved by attendees last year and this year he’s set to make us laugh and enjoy the conference opportunity together.

newsXpress Meve in WA is another newsXpress location offering a best-practice presentation of the Patch floor display unit along with the eye-catching Beanie Balls on top of the display.

Patch is selling out in many newsXpress locations with stores reporting that shoppers love watching the video playing in the display.

newsXpress members have excellent opportunities to tape into supplier deals and business growth initiatives at members meetings which start this week.  Here are the detail – BOOKING ARE ESSENTIAL.

• Sydney Tuesday 3rd July, 2012  Bonnie Boon Golf Club , Banks Ave, Pagewood, NSW
• Melbourne Thursday 5^th July, 2012 Kooyong Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, VIC
• Brisbane Tuesday 10^th July 2012 Brisbane Technology Park, Clunies Ross Crt, Eight Mile Plains, QLD (The Brisbane Gift fair is also on during this time so we are expecting excellent store numbers to attend)
• Perth Thursday 12th July, 2012 The Old Brewery, 173 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth, WA

These member meetings well show off the valuable newsXpress difference.

The newsXpress merchandise committee met this week to consider supplier submissions for Christmas.  While the contents of the meeting are confidential for commercial reasons, we can share that newsXpress members representing fourteen of our member businesses were thrilled with the opportunity to see potential Christmas product and discuss the suitability or otherwise of this for members of our newsagency marketing group.

newsXpress hosted the meeting with some live in the room and others connecting through the internationally-renowned WebEx platform.

newsXpress Knox City is promoting the WIN A CAR competition from Pacific magazines with this behind the counter display. Talk about presenting a clear message to shoppers.

This is a best practice display making the most of the collateral from Pacific Magazines. It attracts shoppers with the car opportunity and draws attention to some of the titles being promoted.

newsXpress welcomes it’s latest member, newsXpress Dandenong Plaza … bringing the wonderful newsXpress shopping experience to shoppers at the Dandenong Plaza Shopping Centre in Victoria.

This fresh and bright new newsXpress shop is packed with plenty of newsXpress preferred supplier products and it is  backed with wonderful newsXpress service.

newsXpress Macarthur is promoting the Easter Beanie Kids in the window facing into the shopping mall and making the most of these highly prized easter gifts.

With newsXpress members selling out of the Easter Beanie Kids already these products are set to be a huge success for newsXpress members right across Australia.

Getting the popular products into high traffic locations is vital to make the most of the opportunity.

newsXpress Watergardens has been promoting the newsXpress exclusive Virgin Mobile Broadband offer with this in-store display featuring one of the scooters on offer as a prize for the newsXpress EXCLUSIVE promotion.

In addition to the in-store theatre and excitement of the scooter on the shop floor there is the benefit of promoting the valuable Virgin Mobile offer which separates our business from other retailers in the centre.

newsXpress stores create exciting in-store displays, often setting their businesses apart from other newsagencies.

newsXpress Ocean Grove has been promoting Valentine’s Day with this double sided display.

On this side we can see just part of their card and gift range for Ocean Grove shoppers.

Placed in a high traffic location, this display has been positioned to work a treat for the newsagency and drive a deeper basket through the Valentine’s Day season.

newsXpress members have been loving the JAG watch pack giveaway funded by newsXpress for members to offer in each store as part of the Valentine’s Day promotion.

Valentine’s Day 2012 is a wonderful newsXpress season.

newsXpress Bairnsdale has been promoting Valentine’s Day in the front window facing out onto the street. The key feature of the window display is the two JAG watches on offer for one lucky newsXpress Bairbsdale shopper. The extra effort gone to to create the display featuring the JAG prize pack is to be commended – it makes a strong statement … kudos to the team involved at newsXpress Bairnsdale.

PS. we noticed Cooper, the large bear had fallen off his perch. Unfortunately we did not have another photo to show him sitting upright with a smile.

newsXpress stores across Australia have been embracing and loving the Halloween season this year.  We have seen a wonderful range of terrific in-store displays offering a broad range of  products from preferred suppliers.

In addition to valuable sales revenue, halloween has given newsXpress stores a wonderful opportunity to show off creative visual merchandising skills and smart retail management tactics.

The photo shows the Halloween display created at our newsXpress Knox corporate store where Halloween has been a real hit for us.

newsXpress has been promoting Halloween since 2005.  Back then we were the first newsagency marketing group to engage in this seasonal opportunity.

It is our pioneering, sourcing suppliers, delivering creating marketing collateral, training newsagents on visual merchandising and running community engagement programs which has paved the way for so many other newsagents to now leverage Halloween for commercial success.

Thanks to our wok over the years, Halloween is in the top four seasons for some newsXpress businesses, delivering excellent rewards.

 

newsXpress members were saddened to hear this morning of the murder of newsXpress member Garry Angus overnight at his newsXpress Bendigo (Victoria) store.

newsXpress members and suppliers are rallying around Garry’s family with offers of support and comfort.

Garry was a regular participant in newsXpress member meetings and other activities, offering helpful comments and always ready with a laugh when we needed it.

Garry will be sadly missed.  Our collective heart goes out to his loved-ones.