spring fair Spring Fair returns with new additions
Spring Fair returns to the NEC Birmingham from February 5-8, 2023 hosting an even more dynamic and inspirational offering.
destinations across 8 halls – Home which includes Living & Décor, Housewares, Everyday, and The Summerhouse, Gift including Christmas, Floral and Seasonal Decorations, and Moda fashion featuring its own Catwalk as well as Jewellery & Watch, Womenswear, Fashion Accessories,
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lmost 90% sold out across the show, Spring Fair encompasses 14 sectors within four
and Footwear, and the newly launched responsible sourcing show Source Home & Gift - all offering thousands of much loved and established favourites alongside an array of sustainable and new brands showing for the first time. The show creates a compelling and unmissable platform for buyers to touch, feel, and experience the latest products, trends, and innovations.
Nicola Meadows, portfolio director, Spring Fair, said: “All of the team at Spring Fair are very excited about opening the doors to the next Spring Fair in February 23. We are all committed to offering our visitors, thousands of the UK’s brilliant retailers, the most accessible, diverse, and inspirational marketplace for discovering their shop’s bright new finds. The show offers an incomparable destination for sourcing newness, innovation, and your next best-sellers. Our vision for discovery builds on the show’s heritage as a trusted platform for buyers and adds an improved layout and unparalleled opportunities for cross-buying and creativity.”
Source Home & Gift Source Home & Gift, the only international sourcing platform of its kind in the UK, will be launched at Spring Fair to unite the best manufacturers from key sourcing regions around the world with retailers, brands, contractors, and interior designers who are looking to find new suppliers or explore private label opportunities. Housewares Magazine spoke to Suzanne Ellingham, sourcing director for Hyve UK, about what visitors can expect.
Housewares Magazine: What is your background in the industry? Suzanne Ellingham: Suzanne Ellingham, sourcing director for Hyve UK. After spending four years as head of content across Hyve’s retail portfolio, Spring and Autumn Fair, Glee as well as Pure and Moda. During this time my job was really to get to know retailers and their challenges and use this not only to design live and digital content, but to feed this insight into the shows directly to impact the customer experience. Having this understanding of our customer’s needs, and challenges the
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market faces, meant that when we saw an opportunity to launch Source Home and Gift it was something I felt passionately about and had to be involved with. The opportunity to build a fantastic show that meets a genuine need, and a chance for us to build a truly responsible sourcing show is very exciting.
HM: Source Home & Gift is the only international sourcing platform of its kind in the UK. How did the idea for the show come about? SE: Coming out of the pandemic, life has changed within retail for retailers and
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wholesalers. Research by the economist in November 2021 shows that 93% of companies involved in retailer were actively looking to transform their country sourcing strategy, and that 92% were transforming their supplier relationships. Reading between the lines, companies were burnt with supply chain disruption and increasing costs, and where they can, they are simply de-risking their supply chain by diversifying their county spread which makes complete sense. However, if you layer over this that
buyers simply don’t want to spend as much time on a plane, and desire more
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