For newsagents wanting to break into calendars, I can recomment Bartel. Their range of Australian calendars sells well in each of my newsagencies. We go out early (September) and achieve good sales from people sending calendars as gifts overseas. I especailly like that they offer regional calendars – Mornington Peninsular for example for our Frankston newsagency. Newsagents can deal direct with bartel. They offer end of season deals to their regular customers.
In my own experience, the Bartel range has performed better than Steve Parish.
The time to plan for calendars is February and no later than March.
Thanks for posting this info, Mark, it is good to know not only the suppliers we can deal with, but the popular brands/styles to try out.
Do you order as early as Feb/March?
Wen, no later than the end of March. Mark