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Merry Christmas from all of usat The Marketing PeopleWe will close on Wednesday 23rd December for ourChristmas break and will reopen on Monday 4th January
As we know you’ve all been good boys and girls this year, we thought we would reward you with some Christmas facts that you can use on your social media, on your own blogs, or to impress your family and friends with your festive knowledge. We normally reserve our statistic skills for websites, SEO and AdWords, but Christmas called for something a little more.
If you want more Christmas stats, as well as tips for your Christmas marketing, take a look at our 12 Days of Christmas blog collection.
From the full team (dogs included) we wouldlike to wish you all a very Merry Christmasand a successful New Year.If you’d like to do a little more with your marketing next year book in for a consultation in 2016.
The tallest ever Christmas tree was a whopping 67.3m high, and was on display at the Northgate Shopping Centre in Seattle in 1950.
The tallest ever snowman was a pretty scary 34.4m high, and was built in Maine in America.
The biggest Christmas cracker was recorded at 62.1 metres long, and 4 metres wide.
The longest ever stocking was 32.56 metres in length and almost 15 metres wide. That may change your stocking fillers …
83 square km of wrapping paperwill end up in UK rubbish bins.
We hear that’s enough to
wrap the island of Guernsey!
6 million rolls of cellotapewill be sold in the UK in the run up to Christmas.
Averaging at 66m a roll, that’s a whopping 396 million metres. That could get you to the moon!
John Lewis can go rescue the poor guy they left stranded now.
FOOD & DRINK STATS
CHRISTMAS RECORDS
PRESENTS & WRAPPING STATS
SUPER SANTA SPEED
370 million mince pies
being bought over the Christmas period. That’s an average of 27
mince pies each.
In the UK, we will drink the equivalent to
57 Olympic sizedswimming pools in beer
57x
2,340,000 mph is the speedSanta’s sleigh would need to travel if he were to
reach every home in the world on Christmas Eve and he would
have to visit 822 houses every second
to make sure everyone got their presents. Beat that Amazon!!
750,000 letters being sent toSanta just from British children each year.
Meaning he would be a super speed reader!
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