With just two weeks to go to The Gift Awards on 15 May, Talking Tables’ managing director, Daniel Fagan, explains why the company is sponsoring The Greats Best Non-Specialist Retailer of Gifts category.
“Stores provide so much pleasure to people, whether they are self-gifting or treating a loved one,” comments Daniel. “The Gift Awards are therefore an important acknowledgement of their contribution, and we are proud to sponsor them.”
He adds that this season, Talking Tables has launched a new collection of largely reusable tableware called Bon Appetit. “We’re pleased to report a good reaction from the trade, with the collection delivering four out of our five top items in terms of doors. However, the overall top seller and top doors goes to Sammy the fish, our ceramic candle holder, part of the Bon Appetit collection.”
All Gift of the Year and Greats winners, including the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Achievement award, will be revealed at The Gift Awards on Thursday 15 May at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. The event will, once again, bring together The Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year Awards and The Greats gift retailer awards, organised and owned by Max Publishing, publishers of Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftsandHome.net.
At the glittering event, both gift product excellence and retail prowess will be recognised and rewarded in a true celebration of both sides of the UK gift industry.
The Greats 2025 finalists can be viewed HERE
The Gift of the Year 2025 finalists can be viewed HERE
Hyve Group, organisers of Spring Fair, Autumn Fair, GLEE and Source Home & Gift (among others), is the headline sponsor of The Gift Awards. Other leading names in the impressive line-up of sponsors include:
Allsorted, Ambiente, Autumn Fair, BATF, Candlelight, Cardgains, Carte Blanche Greetings, Cereria Molla, Dizzy Heights Agencies, FYG, Gift Republic, Gisela Graham, Go La La, Good Results, Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair, Letterbox Love, LicensingSource.net, London Stationery Show, Method UK, N Smith and Co, Products of Change, Progressive Gifts & Home, Progressive Greetings Live, Progressive Housewares, PreschoolNews.net, Qalara, Scotland’s Trade Fair/Springboard Events, Source Home & Gift, Spring Fair, Talking Tables, The Giftware Association, Top Drawer, Toy Fair and Trade Counter Distribution.
Tickets and tables for the awards can be booked via the Max Publishing digital box office event at Max-Tickets.net, or by contacting event organiser Createvents: clare@createvents.co.uk or 0118 334 0085.
To find out more about The Gift Awards and book tickets, visit www.thegiftawards.com; www.thegreatsawards.co.uk
Top: Talking Tables’ managing director Daniel Fagan.
