June fairs do nothing to cheer the middle market
THE long-suffering middle and lower ranges of the trade can take little solace from business patterns at the June fairs in London, the hub of the capital’s most intense dealing period. With a total of some 500 professional dealers exhibiting at the major fairs, it was those with the rarer, better quality stock who were making sales, despite high price tags.
Business even at the preview of Grosvenor House proved very encouraging for the upper end of the tra…