Gun Trade News meets up with James Hinton and Kam Sahota of Alan Paine to discuss some of the most decisive moments in the company’s recent history. When GTN last spoke to Alan Paine, the brand was marking its 110th…
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Behind the scenes: Key moments in Alan Paine’s history
Tagged with: alan paine, clothing, company, competition, country wear, countryside, countryside collection, footwear, gun trade news, james hinton, kam sahota, lifestyle, marketplace, products, range, retail, sales, waterproof
Posted in Interviews
Posted in Interviews
The Viennese faults
Diggory Hadoke explores the possibility of European auction houses usurping classic British sales. An interesting letter appeared on my desk recently. It was from a European auction house and it was asking for consignments from the UK. The auction house…
Wild wild west Kensington
Holt’s have enjoyed big sales of late – and with a change of address and even more hammer action on the horizon, Jonathan Downs gathers for a Holt’s extravaganza. Holt’s Blackheath, London – 13 December 2018 …
Tagged with: 20-bore, buyer, churchill gunmakers, high st kensington, holland & hollandm sporting model, Holt's, John Rigby, jonathan downs, nitro express, sales, sidelock, top seller
Posted in News
Posted in News
Mat Manning teams up with Stuart Grant to help retailers
Mat Manning catches up with Stuart Grant from Elite Optical Distribution, as they seek to help retailers get more from airgun sights and accessories. The airgun market is booming but most retailers could be doing a lot more to take…
Tagged with: 11mm, 30mm, 34mm, affordable, airgun scope, airguns, alloy, bak 4 prisms, BFTA, binoculars, BKL, bkl mounts, business, carry case, cloth, competition-grade, customers, delta, detection range, e-commerce, Elite Optical Distribution, evx 6-24x56 IR, falcon, focal plane, forest II 10x42 binoculars, gun, gun shop, hash-marked, illuminator, john farbrother, kitbag, lens covers, licence holders, light transmission, live quarry, lockable, long unitized dovetail, magnification, market, Mat Manning, mh10X focal plane, MIL, mounts, mrad, neck strap, night vision lines, NiteSite, nitrogen-purged, optics, Optics Warehouse, Optisan, performance, powder-burners, price tag, products, reconnaissance, retailers, reticle, rifles, s1813-18x50 ffp, sales, scope, shooter, shooting, side parallax, spring-powered, springer, stock, stryker target ultra ed 5-50x56, stuart grant, sunshade, thumb adjustable, tins, trade, traders, turrets, viper, waterproof, WFTC, zero stop, zoom
Posted in Market Opportunities
Posted in Market Opportunities
Hoisting The Sales
MY LOCAL SHIP’S CHANDLERS CAN BE QUITE BUSY ON THE GROUND FLOOR. This is where they sell anti-foul paint, varnish, binnacles, line and life jackets. On the first floor they have sailing shoes and clothing. Just the other day, the…
Tagged with: bank, buyers, chadlers, economy, government, gtn, gun trade, high street, job losses, markets, Money talk, news, online, roger williams, sales, unemployment
Posted in Comment, Features
Posted in Comment, Features
More To The Point
Taking a look at two ways of maximising point-of-sale potential, GTN meets a few specialists who can help you achieve your goals. You’ve taken the all-important time to revamp your website; creating an online hub to promote your company, attract…
Tagged with: checkout, displays, future, Marketforce, Matthew De Lima, Point of sale, promotion, retail, sales, systems, upselling
Posted in Comment
Posted in Comment
Setting Up Shop
GTN goes window shopping to bring you best way to make visual merchandising work for your business Humans have been trading since the dawn of civilisation. Merchants of yore would arrange their goods in a way that would attract…
Tagged with: ammo, brainwaves, business, display, gtn, gun, gun trade, gun trade news, product, sales, shops, visual merchandising
Posted in Business, Features
Posted in Business, Features
To Dream The EPOS-ible Dream
IN THE DYING BREATHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY computer users were finally freed from the shackles of telephone lines. The advent of wi- fi in 1999 gave rise to the wireless world we now know; featuring internet connectivity in everything…
Tagged with: brainwaves, electronic, email, EPOS, eposlink, Gunstar, guntrader, omincapital, sales
Posted in Business, Features
Posted in Business, Features
Auction View: Antiquated Law?
Diggory Hadoke questions the proportion of after sales at auctions, and looks into the implications of a firearms law review on the value of guns at auction. September is a busy month for auctions. I missed Gavin Gardiner’s Gleneagles sale…
Point and Click
Social Media has altered the way we do everything. Even the gun trade, the steeped-in-history, grizzled, old, gun trade has bent a knee to the new king. Frequenters of Facebook will know that there are interest groups of all kinds…
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