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…

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…

If you’re looking for somewhere to go this Bank Holiday, then why not pop along to Penkridge Market, who will be holding a fantastic Bank Holiday Market and Car Boot Sale, on Monday the 6th of April. The event will run from 9am to 3pm and with free admission and free parking, it’s a great…

A Council contract to operate street markets in Warwick and Kenilworth have been won by a family business based in Leamington, and took over the running from 1st February 2015. CJ’s Events Warwickshire in Park Street is run by John Walker, his partner Carol Young, son Jamie Walker, and stepson John Young. The markets involve…

Harborough Farmers Market traders Nice Pies expect their award winning, traditional and exotic meat pies to be in even more demand after an appearance on Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty’s Friday Night Feast last week. Kath Walmsley, husband Phil and their daughter Aimi – the family behind Old Dalby based company Nice Pie, were visited…