Autumn NEWS 9AM - 5PM 10TH MARCH 2014, WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON UK
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Dear Colleague, With over 3 full months still to go until the show we thought we would give you just a small taste of what you will be able to see at SMMEX 2014 - The Sports Merchandise & Marketing Exhibition at Wembley Stadium on Monday 10th March. From personalised car mats, to retro kit and customised watches, from sports bottles to point of display item, SMMEX 2014 has something for everyone. If you are looking for something new for your club or brand you will find it at SMMEX 2014. Log on to the website today at www.smmexevent.com for more information and to register for your FREE ticket to next year’s event. Alternatively call us on +44 (0)20 7821 8221. We look forwward to welcoming you to Wembley Stadium in March 2014!
The Smmex Team
They make suits. Outrageous ones. All but standard off-the-shelf suits that you normally see in the tube during rush hour. Instead, they have come up with stylish suits made out of ridiculous and unusual patterns in a well-fitted design. Let’s call them Mental Suits as they are the exact opposite of regular business suits (apart from the quality and fitting).
STAND 122
Mental Suits
STAND 212
The BAGFLAG Company
STAND 57
Dizayn Etiket A.S
STAND 32
Total Displays Ltd
Mental Suits have now introduced a ‘bespoke’ merchandising line whereby they work together with major sports clubs to create a bespoke design in club colours and logo’s for their fans for an affordable RRP of 59.95 GBP / 69.95 EUR. If you don’t believe them then visit Stand 122. Simple, memorable and different. Team up with THE BAGFLAG Company and really get your message moving. One Product, Dual Purpose, High Impact, Maximum Brand Exposure. Simply two products in one, the BAGFLAG is able to easily transform between being either a promotional Bag or branded Flag. Custom printed with your Brand logo or message, it gives you multiple applications for use in both promotional and retail situations. Featured on their stand, this rare product will give you the opportunity to promote your Brand identity inside and outside of the Event, Stadium or Arena, before, during and long after your event has finished. Come and see them at Stand 212 on Level 2. Dizayn Etiket was established in Turkey in 1992 as a woven label and patch manufacturer. They have continually invested in advanced technology and qualified personnel in order to provide a better service to their customers. Having developed an in-house production capability to supply a full package service, which includes woven labels, care labels, heat transfer labels, swing tags, POC tickets, screen print and leather labels. Dizayn Etiket A.S will be returning to SMMEX for 2014. Showing their broad range of high-quality woven labels and printed fan scarves you can find them on Stand 57.
Total Displays Limited is an award winning company and a one stop shop for all your display and exhibition needs. They are specialist suppliers of exhibition stands, portable displays, outdoor displays, literature print and promotional merchandise & gifts with options to suit all events and budgets. With more than 3,000 products available in their portfolio, they have many options to suit your display or exhibition requirements. Rated 5 stars by their customers on Trust Pilot their dedicated sales and service team are ready to help find a solution.
3T
STAND 4
Mask-Arade
STAND 27
3T are the producers of names, numbers, sponsor logos and badges that can be applied to replica sportswear. The product that they will be exhibiting is produced responsibly on all fabrics, is highly resistant to anti-migration and is great for all sports. Both elastic and soft heat transfers have been awarded the highest worldwide certifications for health and ecology. 3T can also provide next day delivery to the UK.
Since their appearance on Dragons’ Den in 2009, Mask-arade are celebrating their fifth anniversary as the worlds leading producer of licensed celebrity face masks & cut outs. We now have a range of over 300 celebrity masks to choose from including our latest licenses from Chelsea FC, One Direction, Only Fools & Horses, Family Guy and many more.
Source Lab
STAND 21 & 22
Source Lab was established in 2005 and since then they have gone on to achieve a great reputation for consistently returning impressive sales for their carefully selected licensors. The company is now firmly established as a number one supplier of fan apparel and accessories to major football retail operations the length and breadth of the country. Source Lab also continues to supply the majority of the UK’s largest national retail and ecommerce companies. A significant achievement in an increasingly competitive market. To hear more about Source Lab or would like to discuss source, supply or licensing visit them on Stands 21 & 22.
VGL
STAND 8
Driven by technology. Powered by hands-on experience. VGL is a family run screen and digital print company with a reputation for quality and innovation. Their continued investment in the latest technology keeps our clients one step ahead of their competitors. Specialising in large format production they can work with stadium and sports event organisers to design, produce and install external and internal branding. Take the time to visit their stand at SMMEX so they can run through the scope of their services to gain full potential from any branding opportunities.
STAND 31
Brightways
Car Essentials is one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of automotive car mats. Offering universal fit car mats for retail Club shops, low minimum order quantities, fast lead time, high profit margin product, on time logistics and an online ordering system they are the go-to company for fully tailored-to-fit car mats. Their mats fit every make and model and personalisation is available as a drop ship service under license under their Official car mats brand. New licenses are very welcome.
STAND 6
Car Essentials
Pet Rebellion produces practical and eyecatching pet rugs and mats for the pet industry; these are fully machine washable and absorbent. They have now turned their hand to the football market supplying over 12 top clubs stylish rugs for the home. They are also working on a pet range to introduce into the market. All of their rugs are fully machine washable with a full gel grip backing.
STAND 213
Pet Rebellion
Exhibiting at SMMEX 2014 are Rainbow Productions, supplier of walkaround mascots to London 2012 and specialists in the design and manufacture of sports mascots which can be used to entertain fans before, during and after games as well as head up Junior Supporters Clubs. Mascots can also act as the focal point for developing a range of merchandise and will also help promote existing lines of merchandise through personal appearances within venues such as club shops. Their clients include The British and Irish Lions, Arsenal FC, the Rugby League World Cup 2013 and the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
STAND 28
Rainbow Productions
Brightways manufactures, imports and supplies a variety of outdoors sports playing equipment and promotional merchandise to numerous trade customers in the UK, Europe and the US. All the bespoke branded promotional merchandise that they provide is made to customer specification and is designed for maximum brand awareness. Sourced and manufactured ethically, the product range you will see includes promotional footballs, keychains, promotional corporate merchandise, and advertising products.
Piglets Pantry
STAND 231 & 232
Piglet’s Pantry was born out of a desire to create food they could be proud of that would change eating at football forever. Good quality handmade pies; bespoke recipes, made for the fans using local sources and UK great quality produce. Provenance for them has always been a given, but add into that a local ale – one that could be used in a sustainable way and suddenly you can create something very special – Job Done. Piglets has grown to include: The Ryman’s League, Sussex County Cricket Club, The Royal Palaces in London, Goodwood and soon to be at The Oval.
Twocan
STAND 245
Since its inception in 1994, Twocan has evolved into a creative force with a growing reputation. Passionate and professional their experienced team combine fresh ideas with creative diversity to ensure total customer satisfaction and cost effective solutions. Twocan presents True Colours to SMMEX 2014, bespoke merchandising including annuals, calenders, greetings cards, postcards and more. Contemporary graphics for the beautiful game.
Tomadex
STAND 106
Tomadex is returning to SMMEX 2014 to showcase it’s new range of knitted and woven fan scarves, hats, printed sportswear and gadgets. Established in 1997, the company mostly operated in Poland, shortly afterwards they expanded their scope and are extremely successful across the European market. The company is characterised by its reliability, creative team, proactive customer care and the highest level of quality across all their goods. Tomadex enjoys its reputation as one of the biggest companies in the manufacturing field. They offer a wide range of products such as scarves, hats, caps, printed banners, T-shirts, sweatshirts to Sports Fans, Clubs and Centres.
Ties International
STAND 93
Ties International have been designing and supplying custom ties to Sports Clubs, Businesses, Schools and Associations for over 30 years. They pride themselves on the quality of the product they offer, the quality of service they give and the exceptional value for money their customers receive. They have supplied to organisations including Chelsea Football Club, Arsenal, Liverpool FC, BMW, Mercedes and invite you to see them on Stand 93 and take a look at their new range of ties along with new packaging with bespoke branding available.
Debut Sports & Leisure work with the major UK retailers across their sports and toy product ranges. Established in 2004 Debut has a broad portfolio of sports and games equipment supplying many of its customers own label brands, in particular Argos, with over 70 products in the current catalogue. SoccerBuddies is Debut’s latest product offering of key rings and air fresheners, which are stylised images of Premiership football players. Having already achieved national distribution with many of the key high street retailers, SoccerBuddies will be exhibiting at SMMEX for the first time in 2014.
J & K Henderson are Europe’s leading watch manufacturer and distributor and are currently manufacturing watches under license for many well-known Football Clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Sunderland, Blackpool and West Ham United. They offer very competitive prices with retails starting as low as £10.
Pollards are pleased to be exhibiting at SMMEX as the show is particularly exciting for them as they will be demonstrating their new Web to Print and Online design Software called “GoDesignOnline”.
STAND 23
Debut Sports & Leisure
STAND 92
J & K Henderson
Approx Stand dimensions 30x 18x 20cm
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STAND 74
Pollards Print
STAND 104
Gorenler
This market leading system has been designed as a powerful tool to enable marketing professionals to produce highly targeted marketing collateral. Linked to an express digital printing service, it provides a highly effective method of rapidly getting targeted print to customers.
Pinpointed as one of Turkey’s most important manufacturers of labels and promotional goods, Gorenler will be displaying a complete range of promotional items from cushions and pennants, bags, badges, flags, and scarves to gloves and labels. Commitment to what they do along with passion, experience and the desire to provide the best service distinguishes them from the rest.
Arena Imaging
STAND 20
Drew Pearson International Ltd
STAND 49 & 50
Arena Imaging are continually expanding the range of products that they can offer you. At present their substantial product range includes: Framed panoramics, Shirt framing, Postcards, Greeting Cards, Framed photographic prints, Panoramic Key Rings and Fridge Magnet, Canvas and much more. They can also offer a market leading e-commerce platform to sell image related product. Find them at SMMEX Event 2014 to learn more.
Since last year’s show Drew Pearson International (Europe) Ltd has gone from strength to strength, adding a number of exciting properties to their established headwear and accessories license portfolio! To add to Manchester United, Chelsea FC, Arsenal FC, Liverpool FC, and England RFU, they have now signed FC Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Celtic FC, The Brasil National Team and Welsh RFU. The above licenses include all types of baseball cap, knitted beanie, scarf and gloves for men, ladies & kids too.
TrusCo Merchandising Ltd
STAND 1
TrusCo Merchandising Ltd will be exhibiting a large range of their fantastic products, including the wooden, hand made and hand painted birdfeeder – a favourite with Liverpool Football Club. This particular product for LFC is the first they have introduced into the UK market. They are also very well known for their range of customised Garden Gnomes.
JWP Ltd
STAND 26
JWP are committed to creating fun, functional, inspiring and safe products for all ages. The product they will be exhibiting at SMMEX 2014 is a fantastic 3D light in the form of a football mounted to a wall on top of a crack sticker, making it appear like the object has broken through the wall.. Looks awesome both on and off. The packaging can be customised in your club colours to appeal to your fans. Their product is safe, cordless, never gets hot, energy efficient, fun, convenient and practical.
FANART by Adelaar are an exclusive distributor for all the Tomadex products. Tomadex is one of the biggest European manufacturers. They will be back at SMMEX to showcase knitted and woven fan scarves, hats, printed sportwear and gadgets.
At the British Sports Museum they work with clubs to develop a range of signed memorabilia not only to suit every pocket, but also to suit every generation.
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Fanart
STAND 11
British Sports Museum
STAND 62
Passamar
STAND 5
Save & Raise
Working with club legends to utilise their appeal to fans, the British Sports Museum focuses on historic matches and memorable moments and look at how they can transform them into a signed piece that can live forever on someone’s wall. Whether it be a cup final victory, an amazing win over a local rival, or a league title triumph, there are plenty of moments that fans would love to reminisce over in their homes and offices. Come and relive some of these legendary sporting moments at their stand. Passamar, Passamanarias Martins Lda, is a Portuguese company dedicated to the production of sports merchandising. Their core-business is the manufacturing of personalised scarves, in any required quantity, under the available technologies – Woven 100% Acrylic, High Definition, Printed and Circular Knitted Scarves. Printed and woven labels, graphic products and PVC products are also part of our own production. Our portfolio also includes lanyards, pennants, flags, pillows, hats, caps, PVC products like key rings, bracelets and much, much more.
Save & Raise is a unique and brilliant concept designed for the sports fan. It’s a unique physical photographic montage for the supporter to represent their team in pictures. A proven model than will create interest and funds for your club. Amazing financial opportunities can arise from promoting Save & Raise.
Your Personalised Gift Shop STAND 7
Your Personalised Gift Shop enables customers to create a personalised unique gift online in seconds, through your very own online shop. Their shops are visually stunning, user friendly and accept secure payments online. Your Personalised Gift Shop provide your club with a free online personalised gift shop enabling you to generate extra income by selling personalised gifts to supporters. They stock and personalise the products, they build an online shop for you, there is no financial commitment from your club and they fulfil the orders for you and handle customer service. You can find them on Stand 7 for more information.
Prodir
STAND 44
Prodir have been international leaders in the production and distribution of customised pens since the mid-1970’s. Their success is due to the combination of award-winning design, Swiss-made quality and constant investment in technology and eco-sustainability.
Euro Sports Merchandise
STAND 3
Euro Sports Merchandise can offer you the total package for all your merchandise needs. With both UK and Overseas manufacture they’ve got it covered - their stand is definitely worth a visit where you can appreciate the range in its entirety - They value your custom.
Bear Dream
STAND 10
A digitally printed towel or blanket by Bear Dream catches a lot of attention. You can count on high quality printed material, fast delivery, quantity from 100 pieces onwards and 100% cotton made in the EU.
STAND 109
NCase
At Taylors Football Souvenirs they provide the independent retailer with one of the largest range of Official Football Souvenirs worldwide. Badges, Soft Toys, Clocks, Footballs, Clothing, Car Accessories, Hats, Posters, Homeware, Money banks, Stickers, Stationary to name just a few of the products they provide. They have it all and are able to offer a fast and efficient service to all their customers whether they are based in the UK or overseas.
STAND 79
Taylors Football Souvenirs
Mayatki will be exhibiting at SMMEX to show their diverse range of Woven Scarves. Official licence holders of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Besiktaş, Trabzonspor and Bursaspor, to name a few. Their products are of the highest quality as is the fantastic customer service they offer.
STAND 9
Mayatki
GB eye is a long term licensing partner for many of the biggest football clubs in the UK and Europe, producing posters, prints, badges, stickers, temporary tattoos, ready to hang products and much more. They can also offer your images on any of our products with low minimum quantities and great prices. Their memorabilia and bespoke framing service allows us to create beautiful unique pieces of art from shirts, gloves, caps, bats, prints or many other types of memorabilia. To find out more come and visit their stand.
STAND 35
GB Eye Ltd
The eye-catching NCase range has the latest Apple and Samsung devices covered! You cannot help but notice their range of personalised IPhone 4, IPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III cases. They understand just how important it is for any items that represent your brand to be produced to the highest standard. Choose from an iconic image, a high quality reproduction of your club crest or anything else you can dream up – the only limit is your imagination! See for yourself on Stand 109.
Thermopatch
STAND 40 & 41
Work Me Out
STAND 78
Thermopatch will be exhibiting on Stands 40 & 41 with their range of labelling and marking products. Established in 1934, Thermopatch is able to provide intuitive and innovative customer driven product developments for garments operating in all environments and supply a complete solution for all needs, whether that is barcode labels and tapes for industrial workwear through to emblems, badges and heat seal transfers for corporate clothing and sportswear. Their garment decoration and identification products are all easily applied using their range of manual and air-operated heat seal machines and presses.
Work Me Out is a fresh company led by Loughborough University student Alex Pycock. This online company provides customers with personalised fitness plans. Customers choose where, when, how often and how long they train - then Work Me Out provides a fitness plan to accommodate these variables via email or post. All fitness plans are six weeks in duration, with unique plans for each individual based on their demographics and choice of emphasis (cardio, circuits, weights etc). Alex has recently employed seven members of staff having begun a mass expansion scheme with the intended re-launch in early 2014. To learn more, visit them on Stand 78.
Novatex Gmbh
STAND 101
With 30 years of experience the Germany based company NOVATEX GmbH manufactures and offers high quality baby products, such as pacifiers (soothers) and feeding bottles. Their baby products are being distributed worldwide and of course each of them comply to the European Safety Standards.
Fan Ink
STAND 86
“Fan Ink” is introducing the exciting and eye-catching Officially Licensed FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil™ fan wear products at SMMEX 2014, including tattoo sleeves for Adults and Kids, multifunctional head tube and stockings available in your favourite country.
Appearing at SMMEX for the first time, Brazier & Co has been producing bespoke Soft Toys & PVC items such as Keyrings, Fridge Magnets, Beanies, Plush, Figurines and more to the trade for the last 10 years.
STAND 54
Brazier & Co
STAND 43
Roy Lowe & Sons
The advantage of ordering a bespoke product is to create an exact, economic replica of mascot, bear or other character complete with crests/ logos to actively promote & re-enforce your club/brand without compromise. Find them on Stand 54 where they are looking forward to meeting new clients as well as catching up with their existing clients, which includes Football Clubs, Motorola, RBS, Sony and Virgin. Roy Lowe & Sons are now manufacturing back in the UK. Their main UK range, which they will be exhibiting at SMMEX 2014, comprises of technical sport and design socks based around the brand ‘SockMine’. They now also carry an extensive range of design socks for the top premier league football clubs, this includes Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and more.
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