Spring Fair preview

Bright new finds for 2023

Get the date in your new diary for 2023’s Spring Fair - offering an inspirational collection of cards, stationery and gifts to fill your shelves and delight your customers “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 bestsellers’’

Nicola Meadows portfolio director Spring Fair

Spring Fair, the UK’s leading marketplace for wholesale Home, Gift and Fashion, returns to the NEC Birmingham from February 5-8 2023, hosting an even more dynamic and inspirational offering.

As the biggest showcase for greetings and stationery in the UK, the Greetings & Stationery sector at the show goes from strength to strength and the renewed trend for writing cards and stationery items continues. A vibrant collection of every kind of greetings and stationery, look out for the most creative, fun and colourful greeting cards, wrapping papers, stationery, gifting and paper decorations.

From pen to paper to partyware, it’s all here, with VENT for Change, Cardgains, Ling Designs, The Great British Card Company, The Art File, Wrendale Designs, Dandelion Stationery, Museums & Galleries, Paper Salad, Louise Tiler, Emotional Rescue, Five Dollar Shake, Out of the Blue Studios, The Seed Card Company, Crumble and Core, Dyson Designs, and many more showcasing their latest designs. The Greeting Card Association Debut edit returns with a host of new exhibitors including black & white illustrations from Wildlines, and eco-friendly collections from The Little Green Paper Shop. As the largest and most accessible ‘shop for shops’, Spring Fair is the UK’s trusted platform for discovery and innovation, putting the most sought-after products, bright new finds, and industry-leading creative thinkers, under one easy-to-navigate roof while giving retailers unparalleled cross-buying opportunities.

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Almost 90% sold out across the show, Spring Fair encompasses 14 sectors within four destinations across eight halls – Home which includes Living & Décor, Housewares, Everyday, and The Summerhouse; Gift including Christmas, Floral and Seasonal Decorations; Moda fashion featuring its own catwalk as well as Jewellery & Watch, Womenswear, Fashion Accessories, 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.

What: Spring Fair When: February 5-8 2023 Where: NEC Birmingham Web: www.springfair.com