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Music Festivals Boost Local Retail

It's Festival season and the biggest of them all is at Glastonbury this weekend. Independent retailers close to the festival are being urged to make the most of the opportunity for the extra sales as thousands of festival goers descend on the area.

Music Festivals have never been so popular and there are new ones appearing every year. Glastonbury has been running since 1971 but The Latitude Festival started in 2006 and already attracts over 25,000 people to Southwold in Norfolk. Independent retailers Chris and Kate Woodruff run a Service Station five miles from the site and have noticed that the festival brings in a "surge in business".
Sales of their home made sandwiches rose from typical sales of 120 to 450 last year.
Minutes from the V Festival in Weston Park Staffordshire, Geeta and Charanjit Doal run a Lifestyle Express store in Wheaton Aston and they expect to see a 15% increase in takings.
Geeta Doal commented:
"We have three chilled food deliveries a week from Kerry Foods and during the V Festival we ask for more than double the amount of sausages, bacon, sandwiches, pies and pasties and we use a chiller in the back to keep up with stocks."

Music Festivals have never been so popular and there are new ones appearing every year. Glastonbury has been running since 1971 but The Latitude Festival started in 2006 and already attracts over 25,000 people to Southwold in Norfolk. Independent retailers Chris and Kate Woodruff run a Service Station five miles from the site and have noticed that the festival brings in a "surge in business".

Sales of their home made sandwiches rose from typical sales of 120 to 450 last year.

Minutes from the V Festival in Weston Park Staffordshire, Geeta and Charanjit Doal run a Lifestyle Express store in Wheaton Aston and they expect to see a 15% increase in takings.

Geeta Doal commented:

"We have three chilled food deliveries a week from Kerry Foods and during the V Festival we ask for more than double the amount of sausages, bacon, sandwiches, pies and pasties and we use a chiller in the back to keep up with stocks."

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