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Sweet Ideas for the Halloween Rush

With costume decisions, pumpkin carving ideas and party planning, there’s always so much to do for Halloween. But with shoppers so busy thanks to the extra demands on their schedule, they quite often forget to get themselves prepared for the trick or treaters they’re expecting.

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Help Customers Create Perfect Christmas Sweet Gifts This Year

The transition from summer to autumn to winter is all about what we make of it. Whether we love wrapping up warm or loath it, something we can all agree is great about wintertime is the run in to and celebrations around Christmas. As one of the leading wholesale confectionery suppliers in the country, we at Hancocks are always particularly excited about Christmas coming. We love helping retailers capitalise on the potential of this special occasion. One way to do this is to offer tips on how to appeal directly to your customers with ideas that are a little outside the box. One thing that might fit the bill this year is giving your customers the chance to personalise their presents, and allowing them to make their own Christmas chocolate gifts. In our latest blog, we take a look at how you can give your customers everything they need to come up with their own Christmas chocolate gift ideas and make it a season to remember.

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The Best Vegan Sweets to Stock for Halloween

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s important to remember something: being able to provide for all your customers is a big part of being a successful retailer. Whatever the event you are promoting, there needs to be a level of care for your customer base. The best way to do this is to provide the very best selection of products for all customer types. When offering edible products, this means all dietary requirements should be accounted for. Add to this the need to deliver certain products around certain events, and being able to tick both boxes at once can be a real boon for your business. This is exactly what vegan Halloween sweets bring to the table. As a retailer, you can cater to the requirements of vegan customers through delicious Halloween sweets and help provide a host of brilliant options.

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Kit your store out with back to school sweets

Most of us look forward to the summer time because of the beautiful weather and the chance to have some well-earned rest. But not many good things last forever, and before you know it the summer holidays are over and it’s back to normality!

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Embrace National Candy Month This June

When it comes to the delicious taste of candy, there are many people out there that can think of nothing better.Now here in the UK, we don’t ordinarily use the term candy, preferring to use sweets or confectionery. But we all know what candy is though and what that means in terms of taste sensations!For anybody with a particularly sweet tooth, it doesn’t take much of an excuse to indulge in sweets and candies. But just in case you needed an extra reason to provide your customers with, June is National Candy Month.In the latest Hancocks blog, we take a look at what this means, how you can embrace it as a retailer, and the various options we have available to you from our range of wholesale sweets.

Business Advice

Get Expert Advice On Product Placement With Planograms

Given how important your in-store product range is to your overall success, any way you can enhance it is advantageous.One way to do this is by enhancing the products you stock. The better the products you sell, the more likely you are to secure those all-important sales.But never underestimate the importance of in-store product placement. The layout of your stores and the order and levels on which you place your products can have a really big effect on how successful your efforts prove.This is where a Planogram can pay some big dividends. We at Hancocks have teamed up with Plan for Profit to help our customers with special product placement guidance.

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Mix It Up With Baking Essentials!

With us all being at home for the foreseeable future, and with many of us having to entertain children alongside working from home, baking has once again risen in popularity, with it first coming back into the spotlight as the ideal lockdown hobby following The Great British Bake Off, providing many people an escape from an otherwise stressful day!.Here at Hancocks, we aim to keep bringing in products which we know will fly off your shelves and baking products are proving some of our best-selling products! Here’s a run-down of all our favourite products at the moment, to help you maximise your sales throughout lockdown.

News

Hancocks Is Now Offering Sweetzone’s Halal Sweets

At Hancocks, we are exceptionally proud of the wide selection of confectionery we are able to provide to our customers. This broad-spanning offering helps retailers across England, Wales, Scotland and further afield provide delicious treats to people of all ages.

Seasonal

Mix it up with Christmas Pick n Mix

Throughout the year, shoppers of all ages are excited by pick n mix stands up and down the country. For businesses ranging from convenience stores to specialist sweet shops, pick n mix sweets add unbeatable charm and character in-store. With Christmas being a period of gift-giving, treating yourself, and all-around indulgence, it offers a wonderful opportunity to eek even more sales out of your pick and mix sweets with a few treats for Christmas.

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Sweet Ideas for the Halloween Rush

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Mix It Up With Baking Essentials!

Hancocks Is Now Offering Sweetzone’s Halal Sweets

Mix it up with Christmas Pick n Mix

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