Tower Systems yesterday completed its third Gift Fair trade show this year. What has been extraordinary to us is the number of newsagents now attending these events. Gifts is clearly one of the fastest growing categories in newsagencies – if the number of newsagents spending money at the trade show which ended yesterday in Sydney is anything to go by. This is great to see. Expanding into a new category such as gifts is vitally important for newsagents. There are new skills such as ranging, pricing and displaying to learn which are unique to the category. There is also the responsibility for firm sale ordering – with much of what newsagents sell out of their direct control, those playing in gifts will be well skilled for a good future.