Bury Market received another national accolade yesterday when it was again crowned ‘Market Attraction of the Year’ at the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) Great British Market Awards. The awards were presented by Sean Wilson, former star of Coronation Street and now an award-winning cheese producer and chef. Graham Wilson OBE, NABMA’s chief…
At the awards ceremony today at Birmingham Council House, Oswestry Town Council was presented with a Great British Market Award 2015 as Oswestry Christmas Live won the category for Best Small Speciality Market. The Great British Market Awards are promoted by the National Association of British Market Authorities and each year nominations are invited from…
The winners of this year’s KPR Midlink ‘Great British Market Awards’ competition, organised by Nabma, were announced at the Nabma ‘Mission for Markets’ conference at the Council House, Birmingham on 29th January. The 13 categories were: ‘Britain’s Favourite Market’ (being the result of a public on-line vote and this year saw a record breaking 110,338…
What a great start to 2015. We had a wonderful Great British Markets Awards competition with over eighty entries in the various sections and a sold out One Day Conference to promote further consideration on Mission for Markets. This year we rebranded our market awards to follow the example of the Great British High Street…
With budgets and time getting ever tighter, as well as increasing legislation about how to manage markets, wouldn’t it be great if you could start the New Year off with a new, simple, easy to use piece of software which could help you manage all of this? The team at Bizaar is excited to announce…
East Herts Council are celebrating British Breakfast week at Hertford Market on Saturday 31st January with a gift voucher for all their traders giving them £2 off of a breakfast served at the market local café, The Hertford café. Café owner Adem will serve up breakfast throughout the morning or provide a take away for…
UK Markets to be joined by 15 other countries to celebrate Love Your Local Market 2015 Happy New Year to all the market operators, traders and market customers out there. It has been a busy season in the Love Your Local Market office keeping up with all the activity over the holiday season. So many of…
Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The closest tube station is Liverpool Street. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be…
With over 800,000 visitors expected to have come to the Belfast Christmas Market by close of business this Sunday, it looks like this year’s targets will have been exceeded, providing clear evidence just how popular the Christmas Market continues to be. The Lord Mayor of Belfast played host to market operators Market Place and an…
I cannot believe another year has passed. Perhaps it is a sign of increasing age but I swear this is one of the quickest twelve months I have experienced. The twelve months was put into a poignant context just before Christmas when I was asked, on behalf of the London Food Board, to present an…