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Maped Helix back National Stationery Week Maped Helix has been announced as a headline sponsor of National Stationery Week, set for October 1-7. Competitions will be launched as part of Maped Helix’s sponsorship of Get Crafty Day on October 6, one of the week’s Seven Days of Stationery. Maped Creativ and Color’Peps prizes will be on offer, providing everything children need to get drawing, doodling, colouring and making. Maped Helix marketing manager Lianne Fletcher said, “Get Crafty Day is all about getting hands on with stationery so it’s a natural fit for Maped Helix and our more creative product ranges. In this digital age it’s hard to overestimate the importance of spending quality time away from screens and National Stationery Week is a wonderful celebration of why we should all keep putting pen to paper, so we are proud to be supporting it.”
Autumn Fair Announce SuperSize #SBS Pavilion Autumn Fair has partnered with Theo Paphitis’ #SBS Small Business Sunday to bring back the #SBS Pavilion to Autumn Fair 2021 and have announced the six winners of this year’s competition. The #SBS Pavilion is dedicated to showcasing new and unique products from ambitious start-ups and small businesses. In partnership with #SBS Small Business Sunday, Autumn Fair run a competition to give the #SBS community a chance to compete for free exhibition stands at Autumn Fair. Managing Director, Retail & Fashion at Hyve Group plc, Julie Driscoll said, “We are incredibly pleased to continue our partnership with #SBS Small Business Sunday for Autumn Fair 2021 and support small independent businesses as they launch into the marketplace. Our shared values and vision with #SBS and Theo enable us to provide an incredible opportunity for start-up businesses, and I can’t wait to see our all winners at the show.” The 2021 winners are: Arcform, Leo
Charley & Me, Bring A Book to Life, RoseMay, Alexia Claire Ltd and KIND2. This year’s Autumn Fair is also welcoming 2020’s postponed #SBS Small Business Sunday winners to join the super-size #SBS Pavilion, totalling 15 inspirational winners across the home, gift, and beauty sectors, will receive a free exhibition stand giving them exposure and growth opportunity for their businesses. The 2020 winners are Canterbury Brewers, Cushy Paws, Give Gifts, Glamavan, Kate O’Brien Art, Life’s Little Bugs, Lizzie Martell Illustration, Photofinish Jewellery, Zac & Bella Fashion. Theo Paphitis said, “#SBS Small Business Sunday is all about giving small businesses and entrepreneurs opportunities and the chance to network and thrive. Our longstanding partnership with Autumn Fair is perfect for our community and offers these opportunities in bucket loads. I know that the #SBS Pavilion will be the biggest yet and that the #SBS winners will be an asset to the show.”
Consumer goods trade fair trio set for 2022 Messe Frankfurt are keen for the return of Paperworld, Christmasworld and Creativeworld from 28/29 January to 1 February 2022. Additional digital formats will also ensure international reach, new contacts and networking opportunities during the year. “Trade fairs have always been an instrument to revive the economy and trade after a crisis. Christmasworld, Paperworld and Creativeworld are making an additional contribution to the recovery after the Corona pandemic,” said Julia Uherek, Vice President Consumer Goods Fairs at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. Thus, the consumer goods sectors and Messe Frankfurt are optimistic about the coming year.
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The three trade fairs are being further developed after the pandemic experiences and are consistently thinking along the digital path. “The combination of the real trade fair with an additional digital offer provides both exhibitors and visitors with far-reaching new possibilities. For example, lectures or workshops can be viewed online afterwards and exhibitors are given the opportunity to present their products both analogue and digitally,” says Julia Uherek.
