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Happy Birthday Best Sellers! FROM THE EDITOR
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his month the Footwear Today Best Sellers Page celebrates its 2nd birthday! I would like to say a big thank you to all those independent footwear retailers on our Best Sellers Panel who kindly notified
us of their star performers each month in 2012 and 2013. We very much hope that we can look forward to receiving your continued support in 2014. The top selling brands for October 2013 are revealed in our Best
Sellers section on pages 30-31 of this issue! We’re now asking retailers to let us have their four top selling brands in December 2013 for the February issue. If you would like to join Footwear Today Magazine’s Best Sellers Panel, please let me know and I’ll add you to our list. Those who participate are invited to email me each month informing
me of their best-selling brands. My email address is shown below. We would need to know your five best sellers overall for ladies, men's footwear and children’s footwear. Also, your five best sellers in the various categories, ladies and men’s comfort/casuals, ladies/men's fashion footwear, ladies/men’s boots, ladies/men's formal, etc. But, if it’s just Ladies and Men’s overall, that fine. In return for your participation in Best Sellers, we will feature you and
your shop in our Retailer of the Month pages, see pages 32-33. This month we are featuring children’s footwear retailer Junior Choice in Kettering, Northamptonshire. I look forward to working with you all in 2014. Meanwhile, if you have entered for the National Shopfront Of The Year
Award and would like to check that your entry has been received please call me on 01622 862962 or email
cheryltayloreditor@googlemail.com The prize of £1,500 of holiday vouchers will be presented at the
Footwear Industry Awards, which will be held on Sunday 16th February at the National Motorcycle Museum. It promises to be an exciting evening, I look forward to meeting some of you there! Best wishes to all our readers for a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Kind regards, Cheryl
Cheryl Taylor, Editor, Footwear Today Tel: 01622 862962
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