Northampton Market Square will come alive this Sunday 1 March when the town celebrates Chinese New Year. Traditional dragon and lion dances, singing, acrobats and martial arts demonstrations will light up the Market Square alongside a food market with a variety of Southeast Asian foods on offer including Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Malaysian. The free…
Ashton Market has proved it’s still the best of British after being voted Britain’s Favourite Market for the second year running. More than 100,000 public votes were cast in the keenly contested ballot, run by the national Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA), as shoppers clicked online to vote for their preferred markets. And once…
It’s fantastic traders!!! Bury Market has just been voted NABMA’s – Best Market Attraction in 2015, an award it previously won in 2012 and 2009, and it has a long list of other plaudits to its name. Bury Council operates the Market on its current Angouleme Way site, where it has been located since 1971,…
Keswick Market wins the Best Large Outdoor Market Award at the 2015 Great British Market Awards. It is said that good things to come to those who wait, this saying is never more true than in the case of Keswick Market and at the recent awards they finally got what they deserved. Keswick Market is…
If there is a magic mix to creating a successful Christmas Market then it seems Market Place are the guardians of the secret recipe. At the NABMA conference in January, Europe’s largest specialist market operators took the title of Best Large Specialist Market 2015 for Belfast Christmas Market. This type of success is not unfamiliar…
The Awards ceremony for the British Market of the Year Awards 2015 competition took place at the Council House, Birmingham during Nabma’s one-day conference – ‘Mission For Markets’. Awards were presented by Jeremy Bradin, of sponsors KPR Midlink; Cllr Mick Barker, the Nabma President and former Coronation Street star Sean Wilson. Sean Wilson, better known…
As I was driving to work the other day I heard on the radio that Apple had announced record profits of £4.5billion in the last quarter of the year, 12% up on the same period last year. It worked out that Apple sold 34,000 IPhone’s an hour, which helped them seal their authority as the…
We are still basking in the success of our recent One Day Conference. The feedback from delegates was very positive and clearly Birmingham is a very popular venue. Next year’s event is already booked for the 28th January 2016. While Penny Mordaunt, Minister for High Street and Markets, was unable to be with us in…
Keswick is an English Market town and civil parish formerly part of Cumberland and since 1974 in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria. The town, in the Lake District National Park, is just north of Derwentwater and 4 miles from Bassenthwaite. Keswick is an English Market town and civil parish formerly part of Cumberland and since 1974…
Following the launch of a campaign across York to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco, City of York Council successfully prosecuted its first such case on Thursday 12th February. Nicholas Pericleous (aged 68) of Seventh Avenue, York pleaded guilty to selling illegal tobacco and possession with intent to supply. He was charged £500 court costs…