SHOWPREVIEW
Show essentials
Spring Fair International 2010 is the UK’s largest and most
comprehensive retail exhibition and is the key buying opportunity
for retailers in the home & gift, greetings, toy and jewellery sectors.
The show runs between February 7-11 2010 at the NEC,
“The Greetings & Stationery
Birmingham (Volume Hall opens one day earlier).
sector at the show has held
Opening Times:
Volume Hall from Saturday February 6, 10.00 – 17.00
up brilliantly throughout the
Main show: February 7 – 10, 9.00am – 6.00pm and February 11,
9.00am – 4.00pm.
economic downturn and the
The exhibition incorporates ten product categories, including: Art
industry itself has shown
& Framing; Fashion Accessories; Festive & Floral; Gift & Home;
Greetings & Stationery; Kitchen, Dining & Housewares; Toys &
impressive resilience over the
Party; The Jewellery Show; Volume Gift & Home and Wellbeing.
past year”
Spring Fair International 2010 will see the launch of around 270,000
new products.
500 new exhibitors and 500 overseas suppliers will be present at
Spring Fair International 2010.
trading climate is still volatile and Fedrigoni London.
The show is attended by buyers with a combined budget of £12
some of our customers are fi nding it One of the most exciting new
billion, who place £2 billion-worth of orders at the show.
tough, but the home and gift industry initiatives for the greetings sector at
has been resilient and surprisingly Spring Fair International is Fresh!
The event is open to trade buyers and suppliers only and entry is
optimistic in 2009 and companies at - a beautifully edited collection of
FREE for those who have pre-registered at
www.springfair.com.
Autumn Fair wrote record orders. gifts, greeting cards and jewellery.
“We have been working hard The Fresh! area has been specially
Entry to Spring Fair International 2010 is £30 for visitors who have
during our preparations for Spring designed to replicate the look and feel
not pre-registered.
Fair to give exhibitors the best of a high-end gift shop.
possible return on their investment Exhibitors here will automatically To register or for additional information visit
springfair.com
in a show that will make the industry be entered for the Fresh! Awards
proud.” – Best New Product, Best New
The Cards for Gift Shops area of Company and Best of Fresh! – which
Hall 3, which caters specifi cally for will be announced at an informal
SPRING FAIR INTRO
smaller and niche publishers, has drinks gathering at 6pm on the Sunday CONTENTS LIST
been a great success since its launch of the show in the Fresh! area.
in 2006. Sarah Watts, director of Fresh!
Exhibitor listing and fl oorplan 42-46
Companies new to Cards for Gift exhibitor Two Little Boys says:
Shops at the 2010 show include: “Spring Fair is very diverse and to
Brainbox Candy, The Heart of a be amongst like-minded and talented
Spring Fair exhibitor profi les 48
Garden, Penny Lindop and Gifted-in. companies in one area just makes it
Highlights of what retailers can expect in Halls 3 and 4
Among the suppliers joining them will a little easier for buyers to fi nd us,
be Art File, Jobsworth Cards, Five which is, after all, why we are there!”
Gift goldmine 70
Dollar Shake, Alex Clark, Country The company has plundered its Crossover ideas for contemporary gift lines
Cards, C-Maw, Leonard Smith extensive photo library to produce
Publishing, Carte Postale, Tracks three games of snap, with the titles
Get Fresh 72
Publishing, Vivid Wrap, The Greetings of Flowers, Christmas and French.
A new section of Spring Fair brings together design-led products
Factory, Brainbox Candy, 28 Celcius, The award-winning yearbooks,
Big Fish Little Fish, Rachel Ellen camera playpacks, activity books and
License It 82
Design, The Heart of a Garden, Dean extensions to their ‘I’m going to …’
The meeting point for artists, designers, art buyers and agencies
Morris, Ocean Pearl, MGA, Over the notebooks will also be available.
Moon, Little Snoring Cards and Jean Visitors to Hall 3 will also have the
Barrington. chance to peruse the latest offerings
Cardgains Focus 86
New companies in the main body in the Cardgains Village, which for
GT talks to the man with the plan for independent retailers – Chris
of card exhibitors include Hallmark several years has been a key feature
Dyson of Cardgains. Plus we look at what buyers can expect from
Gold Crown, BGC Studios, Blueprint of the show, located at the heart of the this year’s Village.
Collections, UK Industrial Tapes and Greetings zone.
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