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A Victorian card by John Calcott Horsley |
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GREETINGS CARDS
Perhaps you didn't know but in Britain we send more greetings cards per head than any other country in the world.
Even more than in America where they invented
Fathers' Day after the war and the more recent 'Personal Administrative Assistants' Day' which is in the process of replacing the less politically correct 'Secretaries' Day'.
There, the market is the biggest in the world by sheer numbers, but only 48 cards are sent per head compared with our 53.
Our market is worth £1.5 billion a year, and we spend more on cards that we do on tea and coffee. And it was in the UK that the industry was born 150 yrs ago by the man who was responsible for the penny post - Sir Henry Cole.
But, history aside, why do we send so many cards and why, in this regard, are we so unlike our cousins in continental Europe?
And can men in any numbers be persuaded to buy cards. Currently 85% of all purchases are made by women. And in the future might the industry come under threat as e-greetings - on computers and mobiles - come of age?
GUESTS
David Orr
president The Greeting Card Association
Janie Markham
The Art Group
Mike Bugler
Clinton Cards
Sandra Louden
greeting card message writer & Author: Write Well & Sell: Greeting Cards & A Few, Choice Words: Short "Do-Able" Writing That Sells
Sarah Danby
co-founder Cinnamon Aitch
Tom Hewlett
The Portland Gallery
Will Walsh
founder Sharp Cards
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The Greeting Card Association
The Art Group
Clinton Cards
Sandra Louden
Cinnamon Aitch
The Portland Gallery
Sharp Cards
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