Merry Christmas to all our readers

Christmas survey, shoppers, small retailers

Today is our final publishing day before we break for Christmas and the New Year, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued patronage and to you all a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2024.

We will return with our first newsbrief of the New Year on Wednesday 3 January, that will feature the final two great stories we are running today – keep an eye out for them in the next couple of hours! Remember, also, to look out for our summer quarterly magazine that will hit the shelves that week – it leads with a feature on 11 female founders who are showing the way to every woman aspiring to start her own business, and goes on to reignite your passion for business post-holidays and provide you with the insights that will help make 2024 a successful year for your business: We discover why fast-tracking your payments can boost your cashflow and reveal six ways to leverage innovation to improve your bottom line; the marketing section investigates includes exciting insights into how AI is now cost-effective and beneficial to even the smallest of businesses, and the ‘overcoming a marketing’ challenge proves a negative situation can be turned into big positive. Other highlights include a WA distiller who has taken the grapes not used by local wineries to craft award-winning spirits and the entrepreneur who has imported UK technology to revolutionise the charging of electric vehicles.