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.
Congratulations to newsXpress Southport Park for making it as a finalist in the local business awards as reported last week on the Gold Coast.
Recognition as a finalist in the franchisee section of the awards is wonderful for the newsXpress Southport Park team and they work they put into their business and into supporting the newsXpress brand in their area.
The team at newsXpress Ballarat has created what we consider to be the best promotional display for the excellent range of Lovatts crossword titles. This display makes the titles heroes in a wonderful display which uses the pencil motif to visually connect with the engagement one has with a Lovatts crossword or puzzle title. We loved this display so much that we shared it with our team of Business Development Managers for them to show newsXpress stores as they make their visits around the country, helping newsXpress members with best practice display and management in and of their business.
Click on the image to see the display in detail.
The team at newsXpress Ballarat continues to excite with their innovative and engaging product displays.
Lovatts is a newsXpress preferred supplier. newsXpress members will support, promote and focus on their titles above all other crossword and puzzle titles.
The Halloween display at newsXpress Wetherill Park on the dance floor is eye-catching, easily drawing attention from shoppers as they enter the store and easily driving sales already for Halloween which is on October 31.
Packed with Halloween products from newsXpress preferred suppliers, this display at newsXpress Wetherill Park represents the journey newsXpress has led newsagents on since entering the Halloween season space in 2005. This is how a highly successful season for us, generating excellent new traffic in newsXpress stores and driving a boost to shopping basket depth.
newsXpress is promoting Halloween in a national TV commercial which is running on the Nine Network’s GEM stations right now and for two weeks in the lead up to Halloween.
Bishop’s newsXpress Goondiwindi is set to celebrate 100 years in business shortly and already they story is getting media coverage in the newspaper. Check out the story from The Chronicle newspaper last week.
newsXpress is thrilled to have Jack Bishop and the family as members, contributing to the national newsXpress story.
Congratulations on the 100th anniversary!
newsXpress corporate store at Watergardens Town Centre, Taylors Lakes Victoria, has the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens being promoted with this excellent display. Click on the image for a larger version.
Located in a high-traffic position next to the main sales counter, this display is designed to drive impulse purchases of this popular title.
Attention is grabbed with the creative display and the magazine can be easily browsed or purchased off of the display.
newsXpress encourages all members to undertake this work, placing Better Homes and Gardens in a high traffic location and promoting it with a professional eye-catching display.
The most widely used loyalty promotion in the history of the newsagency channel in Australia is the newsXpress Magazine Club Card. Year after year we have nailed it, delivering excellent value and easy access to genuine rewards in the reach of all shoppers.
There is no other loyalty program like our Magazine Club Card. Customers love the easy to access genuine rewards. newsXpress newsagents love it for the traffic and sales generated.
newsXpress stores which promote the newsXpress Magazine Club Card reap rewards of extra sales and terrific customer word of mouth.
Check out the photo of what Renee has created at newsXpress Watergardens in Victoria. This pillar display in our magazine department confronts the magazine shopper in the space where they are most likely to be encouraged by the loyalty reward offer.
The display is beautifully professional, using newsXpress collateral to the max, showing off what creative talent Renee is on the newsXpress team.
A good loyalty program will drive shoppers to go beyond their usual or average behaviour. This is exactly what the newsXpress Magazine Club Card does.
newsXpress has an opportunity for anyone interested in buying a newsagency. Located in a high traffic A-Class situation. This is an ideal opportunity for a first time or mature newsagency operator. If you are interested in buying a newsagency or opening a newsagency, please make contact with Mark Fletcher today on 0418 321 338.
newsXpress locations right across Australia are all set for the latest HOT Ink! catalogue which kicks into life today. Featuring some excellent deals on ink and starring the exceptional newsXpress customer service experience, HOT Ink! Will drive traffic and sales for newsXpress members.
Our ink catalogues are being delivered to homes and businesses around newsXpress stores to help attract new shoppers to newsXpress stores.
Featuring bonus packs and other offers, the two-page flyer represents excellent value for the ink shopper. It is a tribute to excellent work by our merchandise and creative teams – sourcing brand name ink at highly competitive prices and packaging the offer in a creative and exciting way to present our businesses as different to your average newsagency.
In addition to promoting ink, the Hot Ink! flyer promotes the newsXpress Facebook campaign, providing another opportunity for people receiving the flyer to connect with newsXpress online.
newsXpress members are promoting this latest offer with professional merchandising of the product, sending flyers to customers by mail and email, placing the flyers out the front of the store and by driving local word of mouth campaigns.
HOT Ink! is an important part of the newsXpress marketing mix. We cleverly use ink as a way of introducing more shoppers to our businesses … with tremendous success.
These Hocus Pocus Halloween buttons from newsXpress strategic partner Hallmark are a nice bit of fun for newsXpress stores this Halloween. It is good to have genuinely unique product which we know appeals to the Halloween shopper.
newsXpress stores are locating the Hallmark Halloween buttons in a perfect position in among their Halloween 2011 displays.
These Halloween themed Elmo plush items from the Sesame Street range are a nice extension to what you usually see on offer for Halloween.
Thanks to newsXpress preferred supplier Jasnor we have access to a good range of seasonal items to extend seasonal and year-round gift and related opportunities.
The Elmo plush items make Halloween more accessible to younger people.
newsXpress has pioneered Halloween for newsagents, having first entered the season in a big way in 2005. While others have followed, none has the depth of range of creative collateral that we offer through newsXpress for this commercially valuable season.
newsXpress stores across Australia have a terrific range of diaries on show. From small fashion oriented diaries through to large day to a page desktop diaries, the range from newsXpress preferred suppliers is excellent ands the opportunity for shop floor presentation is excellent.
In addition to good buying and excellent range display, newsXpress stores have guidance from the group on margin, to maximise the opportunity in terms of the business bottom line.
All of this is supported with newsXpress marketing collateral in-store to alert shoppers that you have an excellent range of diaries available.
The photo shows just part of the diary range at newsXpress Sunbury Square. You can see an excellent range easily shopped and appealing to draw in traffic.
newsXpress East Maitland is partnering with one of our preferred suppliers of toys to put together this terrific display of toys in-store.
Located perfectly in a highly visible location and offering easy access to a broad range of toy product, the display is set to draw traffic and drive sales.
Through newsXpress, members have access to some excellent value toy offers which enable them to drive good sales and bank excellent margin dollars from the toy category.
newsXpress Mountain Creek is showing off diaries and calendars from newsXpress preferred suppliers with displays on either side of the entrance to the store as shown in the photo. Using calendars and diaries in this way is sure to attract shoppers as well as leverage purchases from those already heading to the newsagency. Both categories benefit from tactical placement like this.
Thanks to great deals and range guidance, newsXpress stores are reporting excellent results already from calendar an diary sales.
Right across the newsXpress group, newsXpress stores are promoting the excellent range of boxed Christmas cards from Hallmark. The Hallmark range has been enhanced this year with new designs, fresh collateral and support for the National Breast Cancer Foundation coming from the purchase of every box. Doing good when buying wonderful boxed Christmas cards is a bonus and an important part of the Christmas spirit.
newsXpress stores have the Hallmark boxed Christmas card range showing in high-traffic locations, to make the most of early buying for the season.
newsXpress Sunbury Square is offering an excellent range of 2012 calendars with this best-practice display in-store. Click on the image to see the detail of some of the range.
Catering for a broad range of interests, the calendar range makes newsXpress Sunbury Square the go to place for calendars in Sunbury Square. Refreshed and reorganised each day, this display not only reflects brilliant retailing on the part of the newsXpress Sunbury Square team it also represents the wonderful range of calendars available from newsXpress preferred suppliers.
As a group we are looking forward to a wonderful calendar season. We have access to terrific products backed by excellent collateral and marketing strategies.
newsXpress Orange put on an excellent promotion of products to coincide with the Bathurst race last weekend. This display brought together specially sourced product along with some newsXpress preferred supplier product such as calendars. The result was a stunning display connecting newsXpress Orange beautifully and commercially with a prized and appreciated event being held in nearby Bathurst.
Well done to everyone at newsXpress Orange for such a terrific display.
Click on the image for a great view of this wonderful display of Halloween products at newsXpress Runaway Bay.
This is the first crack at Halloween by the newsXpress Runaway Bay team since they opened the business. They have a wonderful range of products on show and a terrific sense of retail theatre created through the display.
Shoppers at the Runaway Bay shopping centre are loving the energy, fun and great service being delivered by the team at newsXpress Runaway Bay. Halloween is giving the team another opportunity to show off the newsXpress difference.
newsXpress East Maitland has created a wonderful display of products from our friends at Tinco. nice coming on as a newsXpress preferred supplier, Tinco has helped many newsXpress members grow sales in the gift / gift packaging area. We are seeing the tins sold as items for personal use as well as for gifts. We are also seeing them sold as packaging for other gifts. They have so many uses, making the Tinco range a welcome addition to newsXpress stores. Please click on the image to see a larger version of the photo.
newsXpress Emerald in Queensland has a terrific display promoting Halloween at the entrance to the newsagents. This is an excellent embrace of the Halloween opportunity … not only showing off the season for their local success but also showing off their newsXpress connection and our national support for what is now a commercially valuable as well an tremendously fun season.
Knowing the team at Emerald they are set to have fun with Halloween as the big day gets closer.
Delivering an excellent margin and supporting products for shoppers of all ages, Halloween is a fun an engaging season, ideal for any newsagency as newsXpress members have discovered since we first embraced the season, leading the newsagency channel, in 2005.