Friday 7 May 2010

Weekly Blog: Friday 7th May

Thought for the day: Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.



Interesting facts on the greeting card industry:



1: The Uk greeting card industry is worth over 1.7 billion annually, according to the GCA

Market Report 2009 - more than tea and coffee put together.




2: It is the most successful greeting card industry in the world with over 800 publishers

producing over 1.5 billion greeting cards in 2009.



3: The average retail price of a card last year in the UK was £1.17.



4: The greeting card industry is directly responsible for the jobs of 100,000 people in the

Uk including: publishers; artists; photographers and image suppliers; verse and prose

writers; printers; paper and board companies; envelope and cello wrap suppliers; specialist

finishers; warehousing and distribution companies; trade fair organisers and retailers.





JOKE OF THE WEEK: A man visiting London stopped at a restaurant which claimed it

could supply any dish ordered, so the tourist asked the waiter for kangaroo on toast.

The waiter came back a while later and said, "I am so sorry, sir, but we have run out of

bread.



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