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Clare Harris: Keeping the Table Talking for 25 Years
“I love bringing people together. So, what I was doing socially, with a table at the heart, is what I tried to do commercially," says Talking Tables’ founder, Clare Harris.
She’s reflecting on the business celebrating its milestone 25th year.
“They’re both about bringing together a group of peopl...
What's Hot: April
From a Stylist magazine favourite, to channelling festival fever - check out this month's top trending products.
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Why we are planting trees
Talking Tables is working with Ecologi, the carbon offset initiative, on tree planting. We’re already offsetting the paper we use in our napkins and games and we’re keen to do more.
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Talking Topic: Coming together this Eid
Taking Tables founder Clare talks to Zakera, founder of Peace & Blessings, about their joint love of being around a table with family, friends and neighbours:
I was introduced to Zakera Haq, by...
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Small Store Shout Out - March
Each month we like to show our appreciation for our small stores who create and post bright and beautiful displays of our ranges. We love to see how they display the products and hear which they an...
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Eco-taining with Talking Tables
Eco-taining, or planning a sustainable table as it’s more commonly known, is especially creative and rewarding and a great talking point for guests.
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Introducing Our New Range: Tilly & Tigg
Meet Tilly, the new girls’ party collection with a difference. It’s a collection for girls of today that’s also mindful of the future.
Tilly and Tigg is for girls with an adventurous and free spiri...
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Talking Topic: Becoming A Successful Sales Agent
I have a background in sales and I admire a great salesperson: it is a deceptively hard job, requiring many more skills than is first apparent. I was keen to talk to our long-standing and very succ...
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Our journey to becoming more sustainable
Sometimes it can feel like sustainability has become a business buzzword, so it’s important to us as a company that we're transparent about what we’re doing to reduce our impact on the planet. Fo...
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When is a paper cup recyclable?
Paper cups are paper and therefore recyclable right? Wrong. The vast majority of paper cups have a plastic lining and therefore can’t be recycled. Enter the Talking Tables totally plastic free, ...
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Small Store Shout Out
We see so many of our amazing customers tagging our products in their stores, with the window and table displays always looking bright and inviting. We want to acknowledge some of our favourite tag...
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Hello 2022! Our Eco Year
At Talking Tables we wanted to create something visual to illustrate the eco journey we’ve been on for the last few years. Not just to celebrate what we’ve already achieved but to also highlight ou...
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Chelsea Flower Show 2021 - 5 Trends I expect to filter through to tables and gatherings by Dan Cooper
The Chelsea Flower Show is where horticultural trends have been set since 1913. It’s the gardening equivalent of London Fashion Week and the most prestigious flower show in the world. Big-budget sh...
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Where To Get Your Table Setting Inspiration
You can find a lot of the tablescapes we have created over on our Instagram, as well as our Inspiration page. Here the team details what theme was chosen and why, the products used, brand collabora...
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Talking Topic: Staying Successful As An Independent Retailer
Edinburgh is the city I went to school in so is close to my heart.
A favourite shopping area is Stafford Street, and a great store for cards and gifts is Paper Tiger managed by Michael Apter. Pape...
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TT Festival Of Freedom: Keeping It Eco
For the Talking Tables’ Festival Of Freedom we are excited to have partnered with some fun and delicious drinks brands, including Sibling Gin – a local family-run gin distillery. We shall be making...
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Talking Topic - Being an independent store in 2021
This week Talking Tables' Founder Clare took a visit to sunny Scotland...
'When I visit my parents and family home in Fife, Scotland, I make a visit to the retailer Loch Leven’s Larder. The setti...
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Talking Topic: The reality Of Brexit
The last few years have certainly thrown some curveballs at UK businesses, most notably in the form of Brexit and a global pandemic. Brexit forced businesses to change up and revaluate planning and...
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Talking Topics: Everywoman's One To Watch
We are proud to partner with Everywoman, an organisation that celebrates and advances women in business – one of Talking Tables’ key pillars. Not only that but Everywoman also champions one of our ...
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We Are Collaborating With The National Garden Scheme
We are excited to be collaborating with the National Garden Scheme this year. As they kick off their Great British Garden Party fundraising campaign 2021 together we’d like to encourage people to ...
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Our Eco Journey: The Next Big Step
Today is Earth Day - a day promoting clean living and a healthy, sustainable world. As you know we are pleased to have made substantial moves into becoming more sustainable and eco-friendly as a b...
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Our Top 5 Virtual Selling Tips
With the whole world embracing taking business virtual we have learnt a lot in the last year. As with every product-based business a big part of Talking Tables is speaking to existing and potentia...
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