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Santoro wins a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2018
SANTORO Licensing, founded in 1995 by Meera & Lucio SANTORO, are proud to have been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade 2018. It is the UK’s most prestigious and highest accolade for International business success. T... READ MORE »
Student stationery competition launches
The London Stationery Show, in partnership with The Paper Library, is delighted to announce the launch of a new student stationery competition. Backed by three of the stationery industry’s most well-known brands; Paperchase, Portico Designs and Caroline Gardner, each company has s... READ MORE »
Online Sales Tax: Arguments beginning in case with huge potential implications
On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to begin hearing arguments in a case that could change the landscape of online retailing. The case of South Dakota vs. Wayfair Inc. 17-494 requests that online retailers be subject to sales tax the way their brick-and-mortar counterparts are, whi... READ MORE »
Judges confirmed for the London Stationery Awards 2018
Each year the London Stationery Show plays host to the fantastic Stationery Awards. This year the judging panel includes Cult Pen founders, Amanda and Simon Walker, Sidonie Warren, founder of Papersmiths, Lucy Wilson, Related Products Buyer for Waterstones and Jo Irons of Bureau Direct. ... READ MORE »
View the 2018 LOUIEs finalists
The most important element of the LOUIE Awards is - you guessed it, the cards! If you have not already, please view the finalists online and begin to select your favorites. You can see them now by clicking here and you can see them in person by joining us at the 2018 LOUIEs Bash on May 20th in... READ MORE »
5 Fresh Prints to Wear Now
As the immortal Miranda Priestly quipped in “The Devil Wears Prada”: “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” Miranda would be tickled by this season’s reigning prints, for there’s nary a rose or poppy in sight. Instead, stores are exploding with a bounty of colors, patterns and fancies... READ MORE »
March retail jobs down from February but up more than 30,000 from 2017
Amid fluctuations in weather and spring holidays, retail industry employment fell by 6,400 jobs seasonally adjusted in March but showed an increase of 30,800 unadjusted year-over-year, the National Retail Federation said today. The numbers exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurant... READ MORE »
Major new expo center coming to downtown Las Vegas as part of World Market Center Las Vegas expansion
International Market Centers (IMC), owners and operators of World Market Center Las Vegas, announced today a partnership with the City of Las Vegas to construct a new 350,000-square-foot Expo Center on the World Market Center Las Vegas campus, a five million-square-foot home furnishings and gift sho... READ MORE »
Westport shop elevates the art of correspondence
Shari Lebowitz easily recalls the stationery that gave flight to the many notes she wrote from her tweens to her college years. “My mother got me stationery from Crane’s,” she says of Crane & Co., the Dalton, Mass.-based fine stationers, whose clients span from Paul Revere to Jimmy Fall... READ MORE »
Mohawk Fine Papers purchases Crane Stationery
Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., North America’s largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty materials for printing, announced today that it has purchased Crane Stationery Corp. of North Adams, Massachusetts, for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition includes all three p... READ MORE »
