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When my wife and I started Mulberry Bush twelve years ago our aim was to build a collection of traditional toys and games that Grandparents would want to buy for their grandchildren. Lots of wooden toys, not too much plastic, nothing to do with computers, and none of those character or film related toys that are the “must have” one Christmas and gone the next. The only slight snag was that we weren’t grandparents ourselves, nor indeed did we have…
January and February are the months in which we go to the Toy Trade Fairs, sourcing new toys and games for our autumn catalogue. Always a bit depressing to be thinking about next Christmas when we’ve hardly recovered from the last one. This year we knew there would be added uncertainty because of the likelihood of significantly increased prices, resulting from the weakness of Sterling. In fact we were not as unsettled as we had feared. Some of our suppliers…
We’ve just received from the printers our great new catalogue of toys gifts and games for children. There are lots of new toys and a focus on outdoor and summer. Perfect for birthdays and summer holidays. We don’t believe many of our competitors will be mailing a catalogue this spring, so we’re doing our bit to lift the doom and gloom! If you’ve bought from us recently there should be a copy coming to you in the post very soon….
Just what we needed in the frantic few weeks before Christmas. A little bit of extra work, courtesy of the Chancellor. We can’t knock his motives however and are all in favour of anything that gets the flagging economy going again. This bulletin explains what we at Mulberry Bush are doing in response. We are a small business and whilst we hold a lot of stock of our wooden and traditional toys (too much says our accountant) we do not…