The New Year Is Upon Us

Well Christmas will soon be upon us and the start of a new year. Hopefully the New Year will bring stability back to our economy. The last few months have been bad for many people both personally and in business with thousands of people losing jobs due to cut backs or because businesses have been closing down left right and centre. With the newest casualty being Woolworths going out of business and more than 25000 people losing their jobs. I for one can help but feel bad for these people but not just that I am sad to see a store like Woolworths that have been in many of our lives from a child closing their doors for the last time. I am very surprised that nobody has attempted to save Woolworths as with a little TLC and great management and direction these stores could be revived. I guess the debt is just too big to take the risk in such a hard financial period. For our company I can’t say this festive period has set the world a light but we are holding our own and sales at the moment are like for like on last year but making the sales are a lot harder this year. The thing the concerns me is there is a great lack of Christmas Festivity on the high street. Its like people have forgotten what time of year it is or are just trying to blank it out of their mind. I think that most of us will be glad to put “08 behind us and start to plan the future for “09.

For NP2WENTY6 we are already focusing on the new Spring Summer ranges arriving in January and February it will be great to get in new product and lift the shopper’s spirits with nice bright summer colours and get rid of all the black, grey and navy product from the shop floor. In Autumn Winter we inserted a small injection of Gio Goi menswear into our store and Ichi women’s these two brands will continue into the summer but there will be more depth to the product. Gio Goi we will have both men’s and women’s product and Ichi we are looking to increase the amount of product we purchase. Also for Spring Summer we have the pleasure to introduce Superdry into our store we will cater for both men and women with some fantastic product from the Superdry range. But at the moment we are getting excited to see Autumn Winter “09 ranges. For Autumn Winter we are already in talks with some new suppliers to take on new brands I know you should not wish your life away but for us as buyers we need to focus 6-8 months in advance and Winter products are always fun to buy yes the colour pallets are boring as hell but the designs and fabrics are great there is not much you can do with a T-Shirt but there are thousands of things you can do with knits, shirts and jackets.
So on that note all we can do is raise a glass to you all and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas To All

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