Shops fare well in Christmas period (From Essex County Standard)
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Shops fare well in Christmas period
1:43pm Friday 18th January 2013 in News
FASHION shops and jewellers were the winners in the Christmas and sales period.
Shops in Colchester had varied trading success during December according to shopping centre managers.
Both Derek Ashbee, manager of Culver Square, and Paul Bentham, manager of Lion Walk shopping centre, said shops enjoyed a mixed bag of figures but the feeling was not bad.
