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2022 Valentine's Day Toolkit

Posted on in Business News , Cycles News , Creative News

The 2022-GCA-Valentines-Day-Toolkit-LANDSCAPEGreeting Card Association (GCA) have created the 2022 Valentines Day Toolkit full of resources to help retailers promote Valentine's Day in their stores and online.

The GCA are a member of the Independent Retailers Confederation (IRC), a well-established organisation representing c.100,000 independent retailers throughout the UK.

What's Included

On the GCA website here you can download print and web ready files for Point Of Sale and online promotion of Valentine's Day 2022. Thank you to Belly Button Designs for creating this year's artwork.

The downloads include:

  • jpg versions of a portrait and landscape poster for use on your website and Social Media.
  • PDF versions of the artwork, both landscape and portrait that can be printed out in-house. Alternatively you can get them printed at a local high street printer, or approach one of our Printer supplier members. These files are ready to be printed up to A3 size, and can be downscaled to print at A4 if you prefer.
  • An email signature image to attach to your current Email signature.

If you require the artwork in any other format, please contact the GCA.

Access the toolkit now

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