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Read more about Carrie's Welsh Woman Award, click HERE
Autumn 2009 Collection
The Autumn 09 Collection is full of the usual wide variety of fast-selling, accessible designs including warm sparkle, chunky frosted globes, new rainbow metallic’s and stunning, eye-catching ‘optical illusion’ beads. Carrie has also added three gorgeous new ranges to Opulence, our luxurious limited edition collection. The exclusive additions include fully-beaded pieces glittering with show-stopping, glamorous sparkle like ‘Stellar’ and the effortlessly chic ‘Rhapsody’.
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Gift of the year semi-finals
At this year’s Gift of the Year Awards event, Carrie Elspeth was shortlisted for the Mosaic Collection under the category of Fashion Accessories. The Gift of the Year Awards recognises and reward products of excellence within the industry and is brought to you by Giftware Association. The competition give the opportunity to showcase the best designs available in gifts, home and fashion accessories and brings tangible business benefits to both suppliers and retailers.
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Summer 2009 Anniversary Collection
This year Carrie Elspeth celebrates 10 years of supplying beautifully handmade jewellery to delighted customers all over the UK and Ireland, and to mark this milestone Carrie has designed an exclusive Anniversary Collection. The brand new collection will contain the usual variety of fabulous, fast-selling, accessible designs, in fresh summer colours and eye-catching styles.
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10th Birthday
party!!!
This April Carrie Elspeth celebrates 10 years of supplying beautifully handmade jewellery to delighted customers all over the UK and Ireland. Carrie’s childhood fascination with beads and making jewellery formed the foundation of her business, and she remains enthusiastically involved in the running of the company, continuing to design three new and exclusive collections each year. It has always been of paramount importance to Carrie that her jewellery continues to be handmade in the UK and that she provides an exceptional level of customer service to complement the high quality, fast-selling products. Her success at fulfilling these goals had led to numerous awards, including Welsh Woman of the Year Small Business Owner Award and 3 times nominee for Best Service to the Independent Retailer, at the prestigious Industry awards The Greats. As a thank you to Carrie Elspeth’s retail customers there will be an exclusive special birthday promotion, joining in with our celebration of a decade of supporting the UK gift industry.
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Spring 2009 Collection
For Spring 09 Carrie has created a wealth of designs using diverse beads in fresh, bright colours to add some feminine “wow” to your wardrobe. Stunning iridescent shell, shimmering handmade foiled glass and gorgeous Millefiore “daisy squares” all feature prominently in a variety of elegant and eye-catching styles. Due to the success of Carrie’s flagship pewter ranges she is also introducing sophisticated new Pewter Pebble designs incorporating pearls and black-diamond Swarovski crystals.
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Carrie Elspeth teams up with UK Gift Retailer of the Year so you can buy online
We are delighted to have joined forces with TemptationGifts.com, creating an exclusive online retail partnership. Temptation Gifts were voted UK Independent Gift Retailer of the Year at the 2008 industry awards 'The Greats'. A family-owned company just like ours, with high street stores in the Home Counties and 25 years' experience in the gift business, they have also been trading online for 8 years and have one of the most comprehensive gift websites online. Their recently revamped Carrie Elspeth section features almost 300 lines, including "Opulence", "Connect", and everything in our Autumn '08, and Summer '08 ranges. Every product has beautiful close-up photography and each item is described in loving detail: many of those descriptions feature personal comments and recommendations from Carrie herself! So click HERE to buy Carrie Elspeth jewellery online at TemptationGifts.com.
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Autumn 2008 Collection
Carrie’s new Autumn 08 Collection is packed with an amazing variety of eye-catching, sophisticated and classic styles using diverse materials from hammered pewter to sparkling crystals and glittering fire-polished beads. One exclusive design to look out for is the astonishing “Rainbow Metallic’s” which has got everyone talking! The 3-dimensional geometric forms of the glass beads used for this show-stopping range have a stunning metallic finish which shines in a myriad of bright striped tones.
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Summer 08 Collection launched
Carrie Elspeth’s new and exclusive range of designer jewellery for Summer 08 is just bursting with colour and shine! Using fun stripes, metallic shimmers and the sophisticated sparkle of crystals, Carrie’s summer collection is a sunny reminder of holiday ice-creams, beach-side deckchairs and the glow of warm evenings out. We defy you not to fall in love with our clusters of joyous hearts and be entranced by the show-stopping “wow” of our Glaciers: chunky resin rocks reminiscent of carved ice, available in two cool summer shades.
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Exclusive Autumn preview!
At Home & Gift (Harrogate July 13-17th 2008) Carrie is showing an exclusive preview of her new Autumn Collection, which will be launched in full in September. It includes her usual variety of eye-catching, sophisticated and classic styles using new and diverse materials from hammered pewter to geometric metallic's. Look out for Carrie Elspeth adverts in various trade publications which showcase the jaw-dropping “Rainbow Metallic's” range.
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Brand New Cufflinks
Another exclusive launch at
Home & Gift is ‘Connect’, Carrie’s flagship collection of pewter cufflinks,
also made in the UK. The dozen styles being
launched are a variety of striking, strong, yet simple designs using inlaid
black enamel which brings the patterns to life against the pewter. This
product departure for Carrie is something she is very excited about,
showcasing a new masculine edge to her repertoire. Each pair of cufflinks
will be beautifully displayed in a fabulous, branded box.
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Carrie Elspeth sponsors "The Greats" awards
'The Greats', a prestigious award ceremony organised and hosted by Progressive Gifts and Home are the only industry awards to celebrate the greatest in UK gift retailing. Now in its fifth year, these awards are a benchmark for excellence in the gift industry and Carrie is excited to be sponsoring the "Best Retailer of Jewellery" category. At a Champagne reception and Gala Evening in London on May 22nd 2008, Carrie will be invited to stage to announce the winner of the category and present their trophy. Carrie has always actively supported the independent retail industry so she is extremely proud to be part of such a high profile event. For more information, please follow THIS link.
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New Spring 2008 Collection
Carrie's new collection for Spring 2008was launched in January and has been flying off the
shelves with the usual enthusiasm that accompanies all her fresh ranges! This season Carrie has
created a new range of eco-themed jewellery, by using stunning recycled glass beads to make
show-stopping, rough hewn pieces. These sit side by side with an intriguing and evocative
collection of genuine semi-precious stones in five different colour ways. Carrie has also
juxtaposed the warm earthly tones and natural beauty of wooden beads with the shine of silver
cylinders, balls and cubes in an exotic range called 'Naturals'. In addition to these ranges which
celebrate the variation and beauty of natural materials, Carrie has created her usual array of
dazzling, pretty, party pieces and eye catching designs.
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Carrie Elspeth: Welsh Woman Of The Year!
At a glittering black-tie ceremony in Cardiff last night, Carrie was announced as winner of the Small Business Owner' section of the prestigious Welsh Woman awards. The panel of judges
were particularly impressed with Carrie's continued involvement in every aspect of the business
after eight years of trading. In front of an audience of 1000 fellow finalists and guests Carrie
was delighted to accept the award. "I never expected to win such an amazing award due to the
calibre of the other finalists and previous winners. I'm overwhelmed and delighted to accept this,
which is a reflection of the dedication and the fabulous support of the team around me. For
more
information, please follow THIS link.
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Carrie Nominated for Welsh Woman of the Year Award
Carrie is delighted to announce that she has been chosen as a finalist for the Western Mail,
Welsh Woman of the Year awards. After an extensive application process, Carrie was chosen
as one of three finalists in the 'Small Business Owner' category of the competition. She was
interviewed by a panel of judges and must now wait till the Presentation Ball to be held in
Cardiff International Arena on Friday 23rd November 2007.
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Expansion
Earlier this year Carrie Elspeth added an extra 2000 sq ft to its already bustling premises. Due to the increasing popularity of our jewellery we needed to expand into a whole new building to accommodate the extra growth! The new space is a welcome addition and has helped us to become even more streamlined in our daily running of the business.
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Spring Collection Launch
The Carrie Elspeth Spring collection is now on sale. Launched at Top Drawer Spring and the NEC Spring Fair the response has been phenomenal. All our existing customers will have already received a new catalogue automatically but to ask for another please follow the instructions HERE
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New for Autumn 2006
From September 1st the new Autumn/Winter collection will be on sale. This exciting new collection will be shown for the first time at the NEC Autumn Fair and Top Drawer London. All our existing customers will receive a new catalogue automatically but to ask for another please follow instructions HERE
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Carrie Elspeth Ltd: Officially “Great”
Competing against much bigger companies, Carrie Elspeth Ltd was recognised for their outstanding customer service by being voted 13th position of The Progressive Gifts “Greats Awards”. This is particularly special as it's voted for by the retailers of the country and by nomination only.
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Carrie meets the Queen
In late 2004 Carrie was invited by Her Majesty The Queen to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace. The reception was being given to mark the contribution made by the British Design industry to the life of the nation and to recognise excellence in teaching and practice of design.
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World Young Business Achiever Winner
In representing Wales at the finals of the World Young Business Achiever 2004, Carrie won the award for excellence in ‘Business Innovation and Creativity.’ The awards are committed to inspiring young men and women to become and enjoy being entrepreneurs. The World Young Business Achiever award was in its 10th year and the award was presented to Carrie at a gala event in Sofia by the Prime minister of Bulgaria.
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Western Mail Young Business achiever of the year
During May 2004 Carrie won the title of the ‘Western Mail Young Business achiever of the year award’ for Wales. The award was presented to Carrie at a star studded awards ceremony held at Cardiff International Arena. Carrie became the first woman ever to win this accolade.
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Display Competition – Jam
Carrie Elspeth recently launched an innovative new display pack incorporating a simple point-of-sale cube, striking posters and packaging which are available to all customers free of charge.
To put their retailers to the test, Carrie Elspeth set up a Display Competition giving a prize for the best presentation. They were inundated with examples giving them the difficult task of selecting a winner. But after much discussion and deliberation they were pleased to announce that the winner was Jam in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Jam was awarded the prize for their clever use of colour and the classic and simple way in which they presented their Carrie Elspeth jewellery.
Carrie Elspeth also ran a free prize draw for all customers that sent in a photograph of their display. Mungos in Wooton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire were delighted to be the successful winners.
