Welcome

What a year!

In no way could anyone have predicted what was in store for our industry – like many businesses, Reed Gift Fairs have had to challenge and push ourselves to continue to serve our customers in an unpredictable and inconsistent market.

Having been with you for over 50 years, this year wasn’t going to be the year we left our customers hanging. In lieu of being able to deliver a physical event, our team came together to shift our usual printed event guide to an online format that would serve the needs of our industry.

We introduce the: Big Book – Digital Edition

We hope this completed event guide, featuring a huge variety of brands including 246 exhibitor profiles, sets you up for sourcing over the next couple of weeks and is the quality resource you know and expect from us – with detailed exhibitor profiles, listed by alpha; plus supported by product category and brand indices for a more exact reference.

We value your time, so in addition to the exhibitor profiles, you’ll find helpful reads from our Speaker Series:with advice to help you navigate the way forward – content we hope is useful for your current situation, no matter what that be.

Build on this with direct tips and resources to leverage from Kate Carnell AO, the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman; who has the short and sharp answers to guide you through this tough retail climate.

Read interviews with some of our wellknown exhibitors on how the past few months have been for wholesale – including their predictions for our industry recovery.

Brand new for the digital edition are our Team Top Picks, where our staff highlight noteworthy products they have connected with that could potentially be your next bestseller.

Turn to the Ones to Watch to preview a selection of suppliers new to Reed Gift Fairs in 2020.

We’ve also introduced category highlights to further inspire you and draw your eye to products you may not yet have discovered – even more ways Reed Gift Fairs help you discover new products and suppliers every day.

Enjoy our video content series ‘The People of Reed Gift Fairs’ and feel a sense of nostalgia for the stories of those who have been in the industry for many, many years – and know that the retail world will continue to bounce back and evolve for years to come.

We invite you to refer to this as many times as you need and rest assured, we are fast working towards returning to the event format that will support the reset of the retail industry in 2021. Most importantly, getting back to what we do best – delivering a premium business platform for connecting the Australian retail community.

The Reed Gift Fairs team