newsXpress Cooma is promoting The Sticker Family with terrific success. Driving good sales and nice traffic this range promoted on the street in front of the store is working a treat.

The Sticker Family has now been embraced by two thirds of newsXpress stores across the country, making it another newsXpress preferred supplier success story.

The Cooma experience is a good example of the wonderful word of mouth around The Sticker Family product.  Happy customers tell their friends who seek out newsXpress Cooma for stickers for their family.

newsXpress understood this opportunity when it first embraced The Sticker Family last year.

newsXpress Top Ryde City has Valentine’s Day splashed across the front of the store with a broad range of offers sourced from newsXpress preferred suppliers.

Making good use of balloons and the newsXpress collateral, the display is designed to draw attention from people in the Top Ryde City shopping mall.

newsXpress Cooma has a wonderful range of Valentine’s Day gifts on show on their dance floor.

From plush to gifts to cards, Cooma locals have everything then need to say I Love you this Valentine’s Day.  The display is underscored with the newsXpress Valentine’s Day collateral as shown in the photo.

newsXpress Woden is promoting Valentine’s Day from the front off the store and deep into the business., drawing shoppers in with gifts, plush and cards.  Click on the image for a larger version.  You can see the depth of range and the effective use of multiple displays promoting Valentine’s Day.

newsXpress Gatton is promoting Valentine’s Day in the front window using newsXpress marketing collateral and a range of product from newsXpress preferred suppliers. Showing a good range of gifts, the window is designed to get customers shopping this Valentine’s Day. The area surrounding the newsXpress Gatton store was severely hit in the recent floods in Queensland with many customers affected.the store is responding to this by promoting seasons like valentine’s Day on a business as usual approach.

Parents and students living in or near the Roselands Shopping Centre have access to a comprehensive Back to School outpost in centre court being run by newsXpress Roselands.

Vinay and the team have an extraordinary range of products on display, offering excellent value to their shoppers.  Their offer demonstrates that smart newsagents can compete on range and price with the big end of town.  They back up their range of products with competitive pricing and excellent customer service.

Outposting is a key element of the newsXpress retail strategy for shopping centre based newsagents.  Thanks to preferred supplier relationships, newsXpress is able to source products at competitive prices to help stores mak the most of the opportunity.

Well done to everyone at newsXpress Roselands. Your Back to School outpost is amazing!

newsXpress Macarthur Square has put on a terrific and large Back to School promoting with an outpost in the shopping centre.  Packed with excellent deals tailored for the families in the area, this outpost is a credit to all involved on the newsXpress Macarthur Square team.  It generates excellent business, promoted the retail store in the centre and promotes the newsXpress brand. Well done!

newsXpress Southport Park, like many newsXpress stores, was busy promoting Australia day in the lead up to the big day earlier this week.  The promotion included a table of items with while Southport Park customers could help celebrate the day.  newsXpress provides access to this and other seasonal promotional material through a supportive preferred suppliers.

newsXpress Glendale is promoting Australia Day with this terrific display facing customers as they enter the business.  Getting in early and strongly for a short seasonal opportunity like Australia Day is vitally important.

The newsXpress National Merchandise Team provided newsXpress members with access to an excellent array of Australia Day collateral last year from newsXpress preferred suppliers.

This Australia Day promotion at newsXpress Glendale will feed in very nicely to the promotions which will be run by newspapers for the national day.

newsXpress Castle Towers is running a big and bold outpost for Back to School 2011.  Offering an excellent range of products and backed by friendly and knowledgeable service, this outpost is great for the business and a wonderful promotion of the newsXpress brand.

With an excellent range of Back to School product for students of all years for various schools and colleges around the Castle Towers Shopping Centre.  The store also does bagged year-level packages for students of one local school.

The newsXpress Castle Towers outpost is a testament to excellent work from the entire team in the business.

newsXpress Singleton Heights is promoting Back to School packs for specific years with this terrific poster.

Back to School is different between newsagencies.  Some stores offer packs, as they are doing at newsXpress Singleton Heights, others offer a generic yet broad range which competed with the majors while others offer supplementary products of products not commonly part of the BTS offer in majors – like the Crocodile Creek range.

newsXpress supports members engaging with back to School in the way which is most appropriate for their local community.  We will and do support our members in this endeavor in any way possible.

The poster being used at newsXpress Singleton Heights is, in our view, a great example of best practice promotion of a localised Back to School offer.   Well done to everyone involved.

newsXpress Wetherill Park has a terrific Back to School display in-store as well as at an outpost within the shopping centre.

Offering a broad selection of school supplies on compelling displays and using professional marketing collateral – the Back to School offer at Wetherill Park is sure to be a hit this year.

The display in the photo is a small part of the overall Back to School offer at Wetherill Park.  It shows the energy being created for the season at the entrance to the store.

newsXpress Orange has an attractive and extensive Back to School display on show now at the front of the busy store.

Located in the Orange City Shopping Centre, newsXpress Orange is the go-to place for Back to School supplies this year in Orange, NSW.  Their broad range of Back to School product and excellent visual merchandising displays show the GNS / newsXpress relationship working.

newsXpress supplements the GNS Back to School range with a selection of adjunct products with which newsXpress members can extend the appeal of Back to School.

Paul and the team have a wonderful newsagency.  They Back to School display demonstrates their professionalism an their commitment to customer service.

newsXpress is proud to welcome newsXpress Runaway Bay to the group.

This new newsXpress store opened for trading on Sunday after a couple of weeks of intense activity bringing the business to life.

In the photo, left to right, we have Greg (Team member) Sam (Owner) Tom (Sam’s brother) Melissa (Team member) and Justin (Team member).  Welcome everyone, newsXpress Runaway Bay is open for business.

Ian ‘Macca” McNamarra from ABC Radio’s Australia All Over visited newsXpress Toronto on Thursday promoting his latest book – Say G’Day.  The Lakes Mail newspaper had the story and a couple of photos.

Macca’s visit was a coup for newsXpress Toronto and generated plenty of trafffic for the store and kudos for the newsXpress brand.  Well done to Andrew and the team for organising this.

newsXpress Whittlesea is promoting the Junior MasterChef mook along with the range of Junior MasterChef cooking kits.

This display is situated next to the main newspaper stand, attracting maximum eyeballs and driving good impulse business.

The newsXpress merchandise team sourced the Junior MasterChef cooking kits along with the cut-through display stand and stock of the Junior MasterChef mook for newsxpress members – to leverage the maximum opportunity flowing from the high rating TV series.

newsXpress is the only newsagency marketing group to leverage the MasterChef brand since the magazine first launched months ago – creating excellent exclusive opportunities for our members.

newsXpress Roselands is running a HUGE and successful outpost at Roselands Shopping Centre.  Featuring the full range of Hallmark Christmas product and plenty of wonderful Christmas gifts and decorations, this outpost is a testament to excellent work from Vinay and the team at newsXpress Roselands.

newsXpress proactively supports outposting as an excellent strategy for extending revenue in shopping centre situations at major seasonal times like Christmas.

newsXpress Noosa Heads is another newsXpress location enjoying success with the Junior MasterChef range sourced for newsXpress members by our national merchandise team.

The Junior MasterChef range is delivering excellent margin dollars to newsXpress members.

We are the only newsagency marketing group with the product – further demonstrating the commercial value of newsXpress membership.We have backed the product with Visual Merchandising ideas as well as tactical placement ideas.  newsXpress isnot onyl delivering great product but also showing our members how to leverage the opportunity to the max.

The Junior MasterChef cooking sets are a wonderful and ideal complement to the Junior MasterChef mook which is also selling very well in newsXpress stores.

newsXpress Buderim is having a good Christmas with a range of games sourced through one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers.  The display in the photo is a hit with customers at Buderim.

The range of popular games is available at very competitive prices while retaining a good margin – for newsXpress members.

newsXpress has been helping members right across Australia source great Christmas gifts like these games. They make an ideal and easy purchase this time of the year.  We’re having a great Christmas 2010!

Congratulations to newsXpress Wetherill Park for winning the Stockland General Retailer of the Year Award.  Great kudos for a wonderful team … doing the newsXpress brand proud.