If stores are to capitalise on the post-lockdown opportunity to grow vape sales, a focus on display and merchandising is paramount, says Duncan Cunningham, corporate affairs director at Imperial Tobacco and Blu Display has a particularly...
Vape stores in England and Wales are celebrating opening their doors to customers for the first time since January and December respectively. Dan Greenall, managing director of Oxford Vapours, said “We are so pleased to be...
As the world creeps back to normality, Vape Business has relaunched as a standalone title. Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski explains why it is another sign of the bright future ahead for the category Last week, we launched first...
Wholesale giant Unitas has confirmed that the vape category in convenience stores benefited from the closure of vape stores during the pandemic. Jim Brown, senior trading controller at Unitas told Vape Business: “Independent retail sales...
Up to £9,000 available to stores forced to shut by third lockdown The vape industry has welcomed the latest support package for retail businesses shuttered by the latest national lockdown measures but called on government to...
Doug Mutter explains why government action is needed to stop another health crisis We have been consistent in our arguments since the pandemic began that vaping retailers are essential services, and our own data showed smoking...
As the retail world splutters back to life, there is a lot of hard work to be done if this category is to fulfil its potential in 2021, says Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski The vape category has not...
Vape Business speaks to UKVIA director John Dunne about how the vape category has fared in a difficult year and what it needs to do to come back stronger What has been the effect of lockdowns...
Just because your competitor has closed their doors doesn’t mean the return of lockdown restrictions should be celebrated, says Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski Here we are again. After the Welsh ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown saw vape shops close once...
Specialist vape shops across Wales will close their doors for a second time after the Welsh government announced a “fire break” short-term lockdown. From this Friday (23 October) at 6pm, all ‘non-essential’ retailers will be mandated...
IQOS sales grew five-fold in the past year according to brand owner Philip Morris’s latest quarterly results. The figure compares IQOS sales in the UK during the second quarter of 2020 with that of the same...
The UK Vaping Industry Association is urging stores to follow government guidance in the weeks ahead as vape specialist stores prepare to open their doors again. John Dunne, director of the UKVIA said: “The vaping industry...
Success comes after last-minute move due to lockdown Stop smoking campaign VAPril is to last into June and May to assist the vaping industry during the lockdown and help more smokers to switch away combustible tobacco....
A vape shop owner in Liverpool has been pinned to the floor and arrested by police for not following government guidance to close ‘non-essential stores’. According to the Liverpool Echo, Ian Grave, 45, refused to close...
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