Sally Matson, owner of multi-award-winning greeting card retailer Red Card in Petworth, has just opened a gift store in the same West Sussex town.
She told Gifts Today: “Over the past three years, Karen West – the store manager of Red Card who has worked with me for 10 years – and I have been planning another store, as we kept seeing fabulous things at trade shows that needed a different environment and a larger selection of stock to succeed.
“The idea was to create a more luxury gift shop with a limited number of brands but an extensive selection of each”
“We looked at several premises in Petworth but couldn’t find one that felt right – until I had a chance encounter with our current landlord who had his shop up for sale, but agreed to lease it to me.
“At 500sq ft, it’s much smaller than Red Card (which measures 1,000sq ft and is located 150 metres away) but it’s a very beautiful listed building with a rich history: it has been a retail premises for over 150 years. Our new venture is called Little Red and we opened on October 15.
“The original Red Card has more than 170 suppliers, the bulk of which are card companies. Little Red has only 14. The idea was to create a more luxury gift shop with a limited number of brands but an extensive selection of each.”
You can read the full story of Little Red in the November/December issue of Gifts Today.