Christmas Cards on the BBC The GCA gained some excellent television coverage for Christmas cards and the greeting card industry yesterday. Sharon Little, GCA CEO, took part in three live interviews with Stephanie McGovern, two on BBC Breakfast and one on the BBC News...
Prize Winners from the 2014 Thinking Of You Week competition.
Press release unveiling the UK’s inaugural National Thinking of You Week.
The GCA launches the 2014 Thinking of You Week toolkit.
Huge congratulations from the GCA to all the nominees! The Henries Finalists 2014 Most Promising Young Designer or Artist 2014 Rebecca Crouch from Raspberry BlossomDimitria Jordan from Love Faith and HopeYasmin Rahmatullah from YTR DesignsTamsin Seed from Studio...
Announcing the launch of Thinking Of You Week.
The announcement of the Card Factory flotation has sparked lots of positive interest in the greeting card industry in the press with all the major newspapers covering the story. The GCA has played its part by providing supporting information on the industry (some...
How do you go about getting involved in the greeting card industry? Find out by listening to this podcast with Sharon Little, GCA ceo, being interviewed by Ekta Bajaj of member publishing company, Karmic Creations. The 40 minute podcast covers lots of issues...
The GCA is delighted to partner with Get Britain Writing and National Stationery Week to promote the benefits of handwriting for people of all ages. The Greeting Card Association is delighted to support this important campaign to encourage more people to put pen...
Are you excited yet? Here's a lovely new poster to help promote what you have planned on this special new sending day to your staff. Remember, we have a prize for the best photo of this event posted on our Facebook page!
Download it here! We've received so much interest in our Festive Friday initiative that we thought it would be fun and useful make our lovely flyer available as an A4 poster! So here it is! Download your very own Festive Friday Poster here. Many thanks again to...
A new card sending day for the greeting card industry Friday 29 November is the day for the whole greeting card industry to get together and send our cards to start the Christmas sending season with a bang. Our aim is to have a sparkly snowstorm of lovely Christmas...
This popular event is your chance to socialise with other members, see an array of prestigious speakers, enjoy a delicious lunch and explore our historic livery hall venue, Ironmongers Hall, in the City of London. We have not one, not two but three exciting launches:...
The GCA will be opening its doors to a wider membership after members voted resoundingly in favour of introducing an Associate Membership category at its EGM last week. The members voted in favour of the resolution by 40 votes for to five against including votes by...
The Oscars of the greeting card industry! Organised by Max Publishing, the publishers of our official magazine Progressive Greetings, The Henries recognise and reward the wonderful creativity of our industry. The Henries Awards are free to enter and the form is very...
The GCA warns members of upcoming regulations EU Timber Regulations set to affect imports of giftwrap and tags, paper giftbags and boxes This applies to publishers bringing giftwrap and tags, gift bags and boxes into the EU. Greeting cards with their envelopes are not...