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UK Retailers and Publishers work to make this this biggest Thinking of You Week yet!
Paperchase, Card Zone, Asda, Sainsbury’s, and Card Factory are some of the major multiple retailer names to have pledged their support for this year’s Thinking of You Week.
GCA members show the power of keeping in touch with cards during lock-down
Award winning artists, and Greeting Card Association members, Lanther Black, have written and produced a film for the Greeting Card Association illustrating the joy of receiving a card. GCA members, ranging from artists, publishers, retailers through to suppliers and...
Letters from Lockdown – ITV reflect on the importance of sending cards
In week 8 of lock-down ITV news reflected on the important part card sending is playing during the Corvid 19 lock-down, and how the card industry is playing it's part in raising morale and supporting the NHS. ITV regional news across the country talked about the...
Thinking of You During Covid 19
Thinking of You Week officially starts on 21st September 2020. But in the midst of the current coronavirus outbreak every week is an opportunity to bridge the physical distance currently between us and our loved ones by sending a card. We have created a Gallery of...
Send a card deliver a smile – Bridging the Social Distance
Thinking of You Week officially starts on 21st September 2020. But in the midst of the current coronavirus outbreak we think every week is an opportunity to bridge the physical distance currently between us and our loved ones by sending a card. GCA members across the...
Coronavirus and the power of greeting cards
Please let’s all send cards to loved ones and neighbours who are self-isolating and alone Receiving a greeting card creates a powerful connection between people. At times like this, particularly for those who are at home on their own, the connection of receiving a...
The greeting card industry retailer awards – the RETAS!
Without top retailers displaying quality greeting cards well, the UK greeting card publishing industry would simply wither and die. The Retas programme aims to recognise and celebrate the best purveyors of greeting cards whether they be specialist card...
The Annual Greeting Card Industry awards – HENRIES
The Henries are the greeting card industry ‘Oscars’ organised by Max Publishing, the owners of Progressive Greetings. Every October for the last 23 years, a minimum of 650 industry members have attended a glittering awards evening at a top Park Lane Hotel to discover...
GCA new email addresses and Dragon’s Booking Form
We have emailed booking forms for Dragon's Speed Dating to all publisher members. If you have not received it please email us As part of our ongoing IT project we now have new email addresses: hello@gca.cards, admin@gca.cards, amanda@gca.cards. Please can you add...
Guardian Newspaper reports on how Greeting Cards are surviving the smartphone era
The Guardian newspaper visited the Spring Fair at the GCA's invitation and have written a lovely piece on card sending. Guardian journalist Amelia Tait contacted the GCA in January to ask if the British still send Valentine's Day cards. Amanda Fergusson, GCA ceo,...
Scam Email Warning
Scam emails have been sent out to some members, and others in the industry, pretending to be from the GCA and requesting payment. Please ignore this if you receive it. Many thanks to those of you who have brought this to my attention, allowing us to immediately notify...
Dragons Speed Dating Event, 1pm-5.15pm Monday 16th March: Booking opens Tuesday 18th February 2020
Bookings now open for the 4th Dragons Speed Dating event
Greeting Card press coverage Christmas 2019
Greeting cards have had a fantastic amount of press coverage in the run up to Christmas 2019; GCA activity and news stories about card sending potentially being in decline (which of course it's not!), has led to 51 media interviews since the middle of October. We have...
100 years of Cards – The GCA’s 100th Anniversary Exhibition
The GCA’s Centenary Exhibition of 100 years of greeting cards is available for members to borrow, to share with their staff and/or use for PR initiatives. Launched at the GCA’s 100th Anniversary Conference and AGM in October 2019 the display consists of two large...
#cardtokeep press campaign – to remind and encourage people about the importance of sending cards
In celebration of the GCA's 100th Anniversary the GCA stated a campaign to collect images of cards that had been kept and the stories behind them. Text version of #cardtokeep press release for you to use in the members library; Add your own images and then use this...
GCA 100th Anniversary Isle of Man Stamps
To celebrate the Greeting Card Association Centenary the Isle of Man Post Office have produced these wonderful Christmas stamps, using greeting card artwork from GCA members GCA Members were invited to submit designs to the IoM PO who selected these ten greeting cards...
PRESS RELEASE: #cardtokeep campaign: harnessing the emotional power of greeting cards!
Attached is the press release the GCA sent out to consumer media for this campaign. Launched on 25th Nov 2019 with 9 BBC Radio stations this is now generating interest across the country.
Festive Friday 2019 – New Toolkit!
Festive Friday, 29th November 2019, is the special day for everyone in the card industry (and all lovers of cards) to send their personal Christmas cards. This is to create a great first wave of beautiful cards arriving in early December to get the nation in the...
Thinking of You Week 22nd -28th September 2019
Thank you to all of you who have been in touch to share your Thinking of You Week plans Now in its sixth year, Thinking of You Week (Sept 22nd-28th 2019) inspires people to create a wave of love, caring and happiness by sending greeting cards to...
100th Anniversary Celebration Conference and AGM – Looking to the Future
Booking now open for the 100th Anniversary AGM and Conference
100 years of the GCA – The Exhibition
In our 100th year we want to collect together a digital card archive to celebrate our vibrant innovative industry. As part of this archive, we’re planning an exhibition display to show the range of designs on the market today, look at the trends and changes over the...
100th Anniversary #cardtokeep Instagram campaign
Thank you to those of you who have already posted their #cardtokeep. To celebrate our 100th Anniversary we are running an Instagram campaign to collect photos of special cards that people have treasured and why. We all know greeting cards play an important part...
New 100th Anniversary logo sign for trade shows
The GCA has a lovely new gold logo ‘card’ to celebrate our Centenary. This will replace the old-logo plastic signs. We will be handing these out to all PGLive exhibitors at the show. We will also be handing them out at Harrogate, Autumn Fair and Top Drawer. If you...