Curtain rises on soft furnishing rush

“Our clients and customers work in the city and have early indications of
what’s to come and naturally treat their shopping like a trade on the
markets. This is the first time though that we’ve seen such a broad range
of global activities, such as floods in Pakistan directly affecting our
business”

She adds “Of course, there is also the approaching VAT increase in January
which will add another 2.5 % to everyone’s prices so our astute clients are
coming now and ordering before anything else happens.”

Sandra and Peter, her husband and MD are keen to hold a sponsored walk in 2011. “We simply couldn’t benefit from this without giving something back”.