UK Markets to be joined by 15 other countries to celebrate Love Your Local Market 2015  Happy New Year to all the market operators, traders and market customers out there. It has been a busy season in the Love Your Local Market office keeping up with all the activity over the holiday season.  So many of…

Hanley Market has everything you could want from a market and much more  North Staffordshire has a long association with markets with various documents indicating that markets were held by custom from the Middle Ages with records of stall charges dating back to 1392. With the growth of the industrial revolution came North Staffordshire’s emergence…

Work has started to transform Ashton’s historic Market Square into a modern vibrant space in the heart of the town for people to shop, visit, socialise and do business. The exciting plans will see the introduction of new stalls and kiosks, high quality landscaping and trees, a performance and seating areas as well as new…

Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The closest tube station is Liverpool Street. East London has never been short of historical heritage. From the drastically catastrophic Great Fire of London, to times of citywide hardship and beyond,…

Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The closest tube station is Liverpool Street. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be…

Belfast Christmas Market celebrated its 10th year anniversary when it opened its gates in November 2014, however it celebrated much more than that. As well as being an awardwinning, superb market, it also signals the beginning of Christmas for the many visitors across the city and beyond who attend. Many of those, including the Lord…

The old saying goes, ‘behind every good man is a good woman’ and this could not be truer for the team at Groupe Geraud, although it would be slightly amended to ‘behind every good business are several good women’. As you walk through the doors of the Groupe Geraud office you are greeted by the…

Market Place Europe’s fantastic Exeter Christmas Market brings the Cathedral Green, at the heart of the city centre, to life. Market stalls offering unique, handmade and unusual gifts, decorations and food items stand outside of this famous landmark in the weeks building up to Christmas. The iconic Cathedral occupies a special place in the heart…

With over 800,000 visitors expected to have come to the Belfast Christmas Market by close of business this Sunday, it looks like this year’s targets will have been exceeded, providing clear evidence just how popular the Christmas Market continues to be. The Lord Mayor of Belfast played host to market operators Market Place and an…

Almost 16,000 people shopped at Widnes Market as part of the National Small Business Saturday campaign to support local independent shops and traders. – this is more than the capacity of the Select Security Stadium Napoleon Bonaparte famously called England “a nation of shopkeepers” and all over the UK, people took up the challenge and…