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Using the Bestsellers magazine guide

Using the Bestsellers magazine guide

Steve Denham uses the Bestsellers Top 100 Magazines in the UK guide to improve his own display. See what he did and learn what you can do too

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Battery recycling – are you keeping up?

Battery recycling – are you keeping up?

Issues to consider Does your container allow you to see the batteries that have been left? Is the container fire retardant? Do you have a

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My top 20 confectionery lines – what a difference a display makes!

My top 20 confectionery lines – what a difference a display makes!

Retailer Steve Denham reveals his top 20 confectionery lines and shows us how he has optimised their display in this fascinatingly revealing post

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Experimenting with stock

Experimenting with stock

Entering a new promotion period is a great chance to think about how your shelves present your products. Steve takes the chance to upsell and boost profits

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Cadbury’s trade help comes to call

Cadbury’s trade help comes to call

Confectionery is a vital category for any retailer and the representatives of Cadbury’s, Nestlé and Mars are all vying for their plans to be implemented

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Making space for top selling products

Making space for top selling products

My hypothesis for improving confectionery sales is that by giving more facings to our best sellers we will sell more of them. This clearly requires

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The rule of space to cost

The rule of space to cost

Steve Denham refines his space-cost rule in order to keep tabs on product profitability across the store. Convenience retailing? Call it convenience bookkeeping

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Using shelf-space better

Using shelf-space better

I have been thinking about a recent post regarding the cost of display space, and in a conversation with Retail Newsagent’s Features Editor, Chris Rolfe

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What does the future hold for community retailing?

What does the future hold for community retailing?

Steve looks into his crystal ball and shows us his vision of the future – but is his store of the future the same as yours?

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What is the cost of display space?

What is the cost of display space?

Knowing how much your store costs to keep open every day will allow you to work out which products are profitable. Steve takes us through the maths

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