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Robust Christmas Trading in 2025: What Independent Retailers Need to Know After the UK Budget

The peak Christmas season is now in full swing, and this crucial Golden Quarter is traditionally when retailers across the UK secure a significant share of their annual revenue. But this year, the landscape looks noticeably different. Christmas trading has been slower to build, with many shoppers deliberately holding off, waiting for the post-budget picture to settle, and for Black Friday deals to drop.

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5 Steps to Grow your Business

Businesses are tentatively navigating the current economic climate, cost of living crisis and the ongoing challenges of running a business, but there are still many opportunities for growth if businesses consider reviewing their current operations and marketing to develop a sustainable strategy for their future.

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The New Era of Retailing

We’re now moving into the all important “Golden Quarter”for the retail sector that usually accounts for most of the year’s profit and retailers are under immense pressure to recoup their losses to survive.

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Capitalise on Social Media Channels

It is vital now more than ever before that businesses keep the innovative communication going through social media platforms and take advantage of local marketing campaigns to reach a wider audience both locally and from new visitors to their high streets.

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Creating a Seamless Customer Experience is Vital in 2019

High streets are under going dramatic changes and will continue to evolve in the next decade. Shopping as we know it is changing too and becoming 'experience' driven. We have witnessed this in the last decade with the rise of pop up shops, and more places where you visit to try out new activities that are not always purchase driven - building brand loyalty.

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Pop-up Retail to Permanent Shops

Pop up retail allows local businesses to combine their presence online with a physical store environment, and by connecting the two gives valuable insight into customer shopping habits and drives much needed footfall to town centres.