Newsletter 9AM - 5PM 10TH MARCH 2014, WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON UK
WWW.SMMEXEVENT.COM
Dear Colleague, With a few weeks 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. Alternatively call us on +44 (0)20 7821 8221. We look forwward to welcoming you to Wembley Stadium on 10th March 2014!
The Smmex Team
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Ties International
Total Displays
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Mask-Arade
OppoSuits
STAND 105
Retail & Sports Systems
STAND 96
EDIS Spa
Since 1986 Publicalco dedicates its activity to the decoration of porcelain items, ceramics and glass. Over the last decade, they have focussed on sports merchandising licenses and also the exclusive manufacture of official products for club shops.
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Publicalco - Fontanals & Vinyals
ANIMMAT® Barcelona is a young and dynamic company, which has developed a new concept of promotional fashion consisting of customised glasses for parties, merchandising, matches and any kind of event, which are 100% made in Barcelona – Spain. They adapt your logo, image or text directly into the frontal area of the glasses, providing them with a very original and funny style, and what’s more, with a great advertising power. Their glasses offer great visibility and they are really attractive and flashy. Not only they can be fully customised, but also the colours in the front and side parts of the frame can be combined in many ways, right from the first unit!
STAND 89
Animmat Barcelona
Retail & Sports Systems provide Fully Integrated Web Based Systems for Online & High Street Retailers & the Sports Industry. Their experience has resulted in a powerful user friendly system that has been proven to increase sales whilst reducing costs. Since installing the first system at Sheffield United Football Club in July 2010, it is now being used by 5 football & 2 Rugby Clubs as well as by other online retailers. Because no two clubs are alike and have their own preferences for Ticketing, CRM and Loyalty, the Retail & Sports application can be integrated into your preferred system, integrations are already in place with Ticketmaster, Green4, Teamcard and Fortress. EDIS is one of the biggest European independent manufacturers of trading cards and sticker collections, packaged collectible and promotional products such as in-pack premiums and promotional gadgets. For more than 40 years, EDIS has been producing trading cards and self-adhesive sticker collections for the best known publishers and for merchandising and loyalty agencies. Furthermore, many of their products are used by supermarket chains for special promotions, food and beverage companies (fresh and frozen foods, cereals, chips), magazines, petrol stations, fast food restaurant and many more.
Club Row Creations
STAND 47
Club Row Creations are a long established, friendly, professional company with over 20 years experience in producing quality printed and embroidered, corporate and casual clothing. Their expertise enables them to undertake anything from simple line prints to complex full colour process designs. They work with a fully comprehensive range of promotional clothing and accessories from the leading names in the industry and having an in-house designer allows them to provide an artwork service capable of creating wholly new designs from concept to completion.
Love Rugby League
STAND 217
Love Rugby League is a dedicated rugby league news, information and stats website driven by an enthusiastic team of staff to provide rugby league fans with the best coverage of the greatest game. Their primary coverage is of Super League, Championship, Championship 1 and the NRL, although they aim to cover the international and amateur game in as much depth as possible. They provide the latest news and views from the world of rugby league, as well as in-depth statistics from the four main leagues.
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.
Euro Sports Merchandise
STAND 3
Euro Sports Merchandise can offer you the total package for all your merchandise needs. With both UK and overseas manufacturing they’ve got it covered – their stand at SMMEX is definitely worth a visit.
The Fanfin has been designed for fans. The areas of application are extensive thanks to its attractive appearance and 3 super-strong magnets for a secure hold on the car. The fins offer companies with their own vehicle fleet an ideal branding platform. They are weatherresistant, made from special plastic and leave no damage to the paintwork. The elegant fin design fits to the aerodynamics of the vehicle and the product is “Made in Germany”.
STAND 30
Fanfin
STAND 90
Medoc Computers
See them on stand 30 at SMMEX
Medoc was formed in 1981, to provide solutions retail and they specialise in fashion, sport and foreign exchange. They are an independent software development company committed to the provision of quality solutions. For over 30 years the business has developed solutions for a wide commercial base.
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www.footballtradedirectory.com ‘Where football meets business and business meets football’. Their main objective is to create an online environment where clubs can meet business and vice-versa. By combining over 2,000 businesses involved in football with clubs and associations from the Premier League to Grass Roots they have created a unique business community.
STAND 115
“We are especially pleased to be involved with SMMEX for what will be our seventh year. It is one of the highlights of the year for us and we are looking forward to another busy event.”
Nunettes are brand new to SMMEX this year! They specialise in branded Sunglasses as a merchandising article. A fast growing company, their partners currently include the NBA, FC Barcelona and Bundesliga clubs like Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04, 1 FC Köln, Borussia Mönchengladbach. You may have seen their products on celebrities like Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt or Rihanna. Visit them on stand 30.
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Fobeal Alu-schild
STAND 103
Fobeal are a small company specialised in printing and manufacturing anodized Aluminium. Their products are durable and individual. Using undereloxal printing they can re-create your own design and produce something entirely unique. Leave a lasting impression with Fobeal!
Publitalia S.r.l
STAND 61
Publitalia was founded in 1979 as a simple “supplier” of promotional items and gifts operating in the B2B sector of the Italian market. Since then, the company has steadily developed and transformed its business expanding its services to promotion and branding. It is now the perfect partner for companies seeking to leverage marketing tools to incentivise sales, increase customers’ loyalty or simply boost brand awareness and identity. Thanks to the wide range of products, that goes from electronic to leisure, and thanks to an ample variety of service, Publiatalia is able to satisfy customers’ needs with solutions created “ad hoc” for particular situations.
Fritsche Accessories
STAND 67
Fritsche will be displaying a range of their bespoke knitted products including scarves, bomber hats and gloves.
PaperTrix
STAND 29
PaperTrix was established in 1996 and since the very beginning, the company has been specialising in offset printing and finishing of advertising materials made of paper. In a very short time, its scope of operations has covered the whole territory of Poland. In 2005, the company launched the sale of unusual, dynamic and spatial paper products – trixes. And so the brand of Paper Trix was created. At present, the Proma Group specializes in the production of: trixes- dynamic paper products for direct mailing, POS materials (stands, dispensers, wobblers), paper advertising bag from 100 pieces, packaging, wall and desk calendars.
Paul Lamond will be showing their range of Subbuteo products. Along with the main game and accessories they have fully licensed team sets available including Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea, Celtic and Rangers. Paul Lamond will also be launching the superb Nanostad range of model replica football stadiums. These fully licensed, fantastically detailed models include Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, The Emirates, Anfield and The Etihad. To compliment these ranges they will also be showing a range of fully licensed Rubiks Cubes featuring Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City. They look forward to welcoming you onto the stand.
STAND 87
Paul Lamond Games
Innovative Adhesives offer collegiate licensed products under the Fan-A-Peel™ brand as well as hunting camouflage systems under the ThinSkin™ brand. Their versatile, waterless, peel and stick tattoos can be fun for family and friends, make your stuff look great and/or serve as tools for advertising and brand awareness. All of their tattoo/sticker products are produced in the USA using 3M™ hypoallergenic medical tape, patented state-of-the-art digital printing and sophisticated die-cutting techniques to produce the highest quality product.
STAND 222
Innovative Adhesives
Afford Awards have an extensive range of Trophies, Awards, Medals and Glass & Crystal Awards & Trophies for all Events, Sports and Occasions. They offer FREE Engraving on all their Trophies and Awards plus FREE delivery Nationwide on orders over £90. They pride themselves on great customer service, supplying a great range of Trophies & Awards and providing a quick turn around time for those urgent Trophy orders. They offer an express Trophy ordering service where you can receive engraved Trophies within 48 hours. See them at SMMEX on stand 12.
STAND 12
Afford Awards
The Sports Licensing and Tailgate show is held annually in Las Vegas each January. It is an event dedicated to the overall sports market. It is internationally acclaimed and carries all the major sports leagues, international sports leagues as product categories. The event is geared toward retailers who are looking for the hot new licensed products to sell in their stores. Licensors and Licensees of all the major teams, leagues and agents are represented. The 2015 Event is dated for January 14-16, 2015 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
STAND Sports Licensing and Tailgate Show 226
BrandArt Ltd
STAND 14
BrandArt is a global supplier of promotional products and branded merchandise. At BrandArt, one unique concept of range has been developed after 15 years of focused experience. For next season BrandArt offers you a complete process in your journey from initial interest right through to your own co-ordinated product range. Renowned for unique and innovative products their ranges cover many categories including medals, keyrings, badges, stationery, drinks bottles and lanyards.
Stadium Sweets
STAND 55a
Stadium Sweets Limited is a company specialising in supplying sweets of high quality to sporting venues. The presentation of their sweets is key to the business and they have unique display units at point of sale. Their aim at Stadium Sweets is to offer various options to you to “Enhance the experience” of the clientele at your venue.
Sphere Time s.a
STAND 66
Sphere Time specialises in the designing, production and distribution of watches and clocks for promotion purposes. They offer a large choice of models (sports, classic, trendy…) from basic styles up to exclusive high class models intended for different audiences that can be completely personalised with your logo or design. Sphere time work closely with their customers to understand their specific needs and uses only high-end parts ensuring that all timepieces will be of the highest quality. Stylish quality timepieces are consequently created increasing the reputation and raising the awareness of the brand.
Clipper Retail LLP
STAND 13
With over 35 years experience in serving the retail, pharmaceutical, and supermarket industries, Clipper Retail are one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of shop equipment, shopfittings, point of sale units, labels, packaging to the UK and Europe. Clipper offers impeccable value for money on over 1,500 products. Backed by a knowledgeable team enthused to deliver fanatical customer service. Clipper also offer a 100 day money back guarantee along with lowest delivery price guarantee on every order.
iSportconnect is a private network for sports business professionals.
iSportconnect
Digital: iSportconnect.com is the one stop platform for members of the sports industry with all the latest news, features, community discussions, jobs & market place opportunities. Events: iSportconnect Directors’ Club and iSportconnect Masterclass are exclusive, members only events consisting of high level sports business individuals who run & finance the sports industry in major cities in the world. Business Solution: They use their expertise in Translation, Capital and Media Training to provide high level solutions. SW Group of Co are a sports goods manufacturing company producing a wide range of top quality, all-weather, waterproof, hand-stitched footballs, rugby balls, mini-balls, handballs and volleyballs. They are known for quality material, durability, workmanship and excellent performance. Every product is processed through strict and vigilant quality control at every stage. Visit them on stand 2 at SMMEX 2014.
STAND 2
SW Group of Companies
2014 sees FCBusiness celebrate 10 years of publishing. Serving as a practical guide to those involved in the business of running a football club at every level they will continue to bring you exclusive interviews, insight and comment on all aspects of the game.
STAND 99
FCBusiness Magazine
Forever Collectibles makes over 150,000 different items, ranging from holiday ornaments to reusable bags to bobbleheads. The company’s goal is to keep producing exciting and amusing memorabilia that can put a smile on anyone’s face. Regardless of what your favourite sport or team is Forever Collectibles has something for everyone.
STAND 15
Forever Collectibles
From home textiles including duvets, fleece blankets, curtains and cushions to ceramics, stationery, luggage and lunch boxes. See a sample on stand 15 at SMMEX.
Spionkop Shop
STAND 34
E-Sebio Online Shop is an internet store where you can shop for all your soccer gear. They offer both the official merchandising items of your favourite clubs, as well as custom creations and gadgets you will not be able to buy elsewhere. They also design and manufacture merchandising for all clubs, fan clubs, associations, such as pins, scarves, hats, flags, t-shirts, or whatever you can think of and they always offer top quality at the most affordable prices!
Storm International
STAND 25
Storm International specialises in own design products supplied directly to the leisure industry. They are proud to be the official licensee for many of the largest clubs in the world including Man Utd FC, Liverpool FC, Chelsea FC, Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, Man City FC, Everton FC, Newcastle FC and Aston Villa FC to name a few. With their UK based design team they can ensure the highest standards of design and packaging. They bring new and innovative products to the market year on year.
Great Plate Mate
STAND 244
Great Plate Mate is a UK leader in digitally printed number plate surrounds. Their digital printing system allows full colour printing in fantastic detail. Any image, logo or colour can be faithfully reproduced onto the wide base strip of their number plate surrounds which fit standard UK & European number plates. Great Plate Mate can also offer fully branded packaging with low MOQ’s.
Team Tots Clothing
STAND 201
Team Tots Clothing is a fully integrated clothing manufacturer. They offer a wide range of services dependant on customers’ requirements. They offer a total package of individual design to your colours and requirements. They have a close relationship with their printers, embroidery and fabric manufacturers.
Brand Licensing Europe 2014 is the definitive event for the European licensing industry. Taking place from the 7th-9th October 2014 at Olympia, London, over 280 leading brand owners will showcase over 2,200 of the latest brands, characters and images to thousands of retailers, licensees and sales promotion professionals. If you are looking for new partnerships that could transform your business, visit them on stand 238 to find out how BLE 2014 could help you.
STAND 238
World Centre Ltd are one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of official football jewellery including: rings, pendants, earrings, dog tags, cufflinks, body bars, bracelets, tie slides, pin badges and key fobs. Manufactured in stainless steel, silver and gold as well as silver & gold plated. They also provide a range of silicone jewellery products including wristbands, necklaces & bracelets. They are proud to say that they work with over 50 football clubs in the UK and some in Europe, to create customised ranges of jewellery for sale within the clubs’ own stores, mail order catalogues and via their websites.
STAND 48
World Centre Ltd
Brenta design and produce products from plastic. They manufacture and also print onto sports bottles.
STAND 98
Brenta d.o.o
Expand International design, manufacture and print high quality and innovative event displays. Their comprehensive selection of displays are suitable for a variety of different events, from trade shows and exhibitions to interior design for restaurant or retail. They understand that it can sometimes be time consuming to find the perfect display, they assign an account manager to each brief, enabling them to choose the correct product to suit the brand and budget. Visit them on stands 110 & 111 at SMMEX 2014 to see some of their latest event display solutions.
STAND 110 & 111
Brand Licensing Europe
Expand International
STAND 51
New to SMMEX this year, F.C Industries will be displaying their extensive range of sports merchandise. Their products include soccer balls, polo shirts, accessories and sportswear. See them on stand 51.
Genesis Sports
STAND 118 & 119
Genesis Sports are a top international supplier of own brand apparel and accessories to leading Sports organisations and are also the Licensee for PUMA team sports in the UK and Ireland. They have grown organically, expanding through word of mouth, built by their strong reputation. They’re passionate about sport, are relationship builders and they deliver on our promises. They promise to provide quality product, conveniently and reliably with a keen focus on delivering first class customer service.
Total Licensing
STAND 237
Total Licensing publishes worldwide magazines, including Total Licensing, Total Licensing New Europe, Total Licensing Italy, Total Licensing Australia, and Total Licensing UK, as well as Total Art Licensing. As of 2014, a new title Total Brand Licensing is being launched, looking at the global world of the business of brands. With a readership of over 80,000 readers in 104 countries, Total Licensing truly gives global coverage to the licensing and brand industries.
mail-sports Ltd
STAND 108
mail-sports Ltd is a young company, which successfully works particularly in the areas of sports & fashion wear, sports bags and accessories with well-known brands. They develop individual collections with innovative design and functional materials. Their cooperation with first-class international partners in the areas of creation and production enables them to offer quality products at fair prices.
F.C Industries
OppoSuits is a fast-growing and unique concept within the fancy dress industry and has now set up a division (OppoSuits Custom-Made) whereby it produces bespoke yet affordable ‘fan’ suits for sports clubs to offer to their fans as a merchandising product. The suits retail around a price mark of £60-70 (including the tie) making it a very affordable merchandising product for sports fans to support their team in style. Being worn to be wild, OppoSuits are extremely suitable for sporting events and makes fans stand out from the crowd.
BagFlag is one product designed for use as either a promotional Bag or branded Flag. BagFlag simply converts to one or the other by use of a built in pole. Push the pole for a Bag, Pull the pole for Flag. It’s the clever way to deliver your message on the move. Carried or waved, BagFlag, from The BagFlag Company is a unique promotional product that will take your brand to higher places. BagFlag can be custom printed to display your: brand, message, corporate identity, emblem and sponsors. The possibilites are endless making BagFlag an ideal promotional item to get your brand noticed.
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.
STAND 122
OppoSuits Custom-Made
STAND 212
The BAGFLAG Company
STAND 57
Dizayn Etiket A.S
STAND 32
Total Displays Ltd
Dizayn Etiket 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.
Pure360
STAND 72
Pure360 is an email & SMS marketing provider who specialise in helping businesses get the best results from their campaigns. Pure360 work with over 1000 organisations including brands such as Rightmove, Virgin and innocent drinks. You won’t find a team more passionate about improving results together. Their customers stay with them through choice, not contract, and they tell their friends about them – but never their competitors. Members of the DMA, they’ve recorded a 10% higher open rate for our customers than the DMA average, leading to higher clicks and conversions for your email marketing campaigns. Pure360 – improving results together
Mask-Arade
STAND 27
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.
Brightways manufactures, imports and supplies a variety of outdoor sports playing equipment and promotional merchandise to numerous trade customers in the UK, Europe and the US. All the bespoke branded merchandise that they provide is made to customer specification and is designed for maximum brand awareness. Sourced and manufactured ethically, their product range includes footballs, rugby balls, basketballs, sweat bands, keychains, promotional corporate merchandise and advertising products.
STAND 31
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 products, on-time logistics and an online ordering system they are the go-to company for fully tailored-to-fit car mats. Their mats for every make and model and personalisation is available as a drop shop 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
Rainbow Productions, supplier of the walkaround mascots to London 2012, specialise in the design and manufacture of mascots, which can be used to entertain fans before, during and after games as well as head up Junior Supporters Clubs. Their clients include The British and Irish Lions, Arsenal FC, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games 2013 and the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. They also represent under licence 100 children’s characters – such as Peppa Pig, Dennis the Menace and Mike the Knight - and supply these famous brands for personal appearances at match days and other live events.
STAND 28
Rainbow Productions
Brightways
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.
Re-launched in July 2011 as an on-line resource for business decision-makers in both codes of rugby in the UK and Ireland, Running Rugby produces their own content, round up the news and direct readers to relevant feature articles and research published elsewhere. A weekly email bulletin is sent to 2500+ registered users and host one-day events for the rugby business community.
Running Rugby
Ties International
STAND 93
Ties International offer a full range of bespoke neckwear. Designed to your specifications to include, crest/logo and company/clubs colours. New packaging to compliment all products with the option to include your design requirements. New materials with the latest European designs are available now. Ties International offer the largest Premier league licensed Tie range in the UK. Official endorsed ties from major clubs in Europe are available now. Increase your profit margins and profile to include our fantastic range of Official Merchandise available now
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.
STAND 23
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.
STAND 92
J & K Henderson
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 73
Pollards Print
STAND 104
Gorenler
SoccerBuddies
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
Arena Imaging return to SMMEX to exhibit their extensive range of photographic products and solutions for the sporting industry, including: Framed Shirts, Framed Panoramics, Canvas, Framed Memorabilia, Fridge Magnets, Framed Photographic Prints, Greetings Cards, Keyrings, Acrylic Products, Mugs and Jigsaws to name a few! Also on display will be official licensed photographic products of Arsenal, Fulham and UEFA.
Retail Focus provides high-quality editorial content to the retail design community. Each month, it offers an insightful and timely mix of news, projects, opinions, interviews and feature articles for those professionals working in this highly innovative and creative sector.
Retail Focus
British Ice Hockey
STAND 217
A leading ice hockey website in the UK.
JWP Ltd
STAND 26
The 3D Deco Lights are comforting, cordless, decorative night lights that are loved by children and adults. The first of their popular designs is a regulation sized soccer ball that gives the playful appearance that is has been kicked to the wall. With a simple switch the light provides a soothing glow. The packaging can also be customised in your club colours to appeal to your fans.
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.
British Sports Museum offer eye catching hand signed items of sports memorabilia and framing services. Their products are hand signed by sporting legends from the world of football, cricket, rugby, golf and boxing amongst others. All items are authenticated and offer unique opportunities for retailers, galleries and Clubs wishing to extend and develop their men’s gift, sporting or corporate ranges. They are also able to tailor ranges to suit your target market and work with you to enhance your memorabilia range. British Sports Museum also have a wealth of experience in the field of Charity auctions and are happy to discuss how they can help you make the most out of your fundraising activities.
STAND 106
Fanart
STAND 11
British Sports Museum
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.
STAND 62
Passamar
Information on the Merchandise Exhibition in Hamburg will be available on stand 204.
STAND 204
HSV
Your Personalised Gift Shop provides professional sports clubs with their own fantastic FREE online shop enabling you to generate extra income by selling personalised gifts to supporters. Their shops are visually stunning, user-friendly and accept secure payments online. They stock and personalise the products at their expense, they design and build the online shop for you with no financial commitment from your club. They fulfil the orders for you and handle customer service. You can find them on stand 7 at SMMEX 2014.
Your Personalised Gift Shop
STAND 7
Prodir
STAND 44
Prodir have been leaders since the Seventies in the production of customised pens and writing instruments for use as advertising media. They manufacture them themselves exclusively in Switzerland. Their Swissness is your guarantee of high quality standards. Attention to every detail and multiple award-winning innovative design go hand in hand with environmental sustainability. They offer a vast array of customisation options to support your images, because a promotional writing instrument must represent your brand values and contribute to your credibility. They will be displaying a selection of pens at SMMEX this year – head to stand 44 to find out more.
SportBox Media & Marketing
STAND 217
Sportbox offers a range of web, media and communications services to the sports industry.
STAND 10
New to SMMEX this year, Bear Dream will be displaying their modern, promotional towels, made of 100% cotton and produced within the EU. You can count on high quality material, custom production, fast deliveries, and quantities starting from just 100 pieces.
Bear Dream
They help their clients increase their brand awareness and ultimately generate revenue, helping clubs, brands and organisations to reach out to their audience.
The eye-catching NCase range has the latest Apple and Samsung devices covered! They provide a premium quality smart phone case range for the UK’s best selling mobile devices. 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.
STAND 109
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. They are the Official Scarves licensee for Manchester United, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid CF and Galatasaray SK, Fernerbahçe SK, Besiktas JK, Trabzonspor AS, Bursaspor One of Europe’s biggest and leading fun scarves, badges and pennants manufacturer. They are working with lots of the clubs are monthly capacity are 250.000 scarves and pennants and 20 million for the badges. They also provide a range of mini scarves and mini pennants for cars.
STAND 9
Mayatki
GB eye Ltd is a long term licensing partner for many of the biggest football clubs in the UK and Europe, producing posters, merchandise, ready to hang art, canvas and memorabilia and bespoke framing. They can can also offer your images on any of their products with low minimum quantities and great prices. Their memorabilia and bespoke framing service allows them to create beautiful, unique pieces of art from shirts, gloves, caps, bats, prints and more. To find out more visit them on stand 35 at SMMEX.
STAND 35
GB Eye Ltd
NCase
Thermopatch
STAND 40 & 41
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
STAND 78
Work Me Out is a fresh, online company providing customers with personalised fitness plans. Customers choose where, when, how often and for how long they train – then Work Me Out provides a fitness plan to accommodate these variables via email or post. All plans are six weeks in duration with unique plans for each individual.
Novatex Gmbh
STAND 101
BABY-NOVA is a brand of the NOVATEX GmbH company. They provide products for the little fans! Their decades of experience go into the material and finishing of each and every one of their products. Soothers, feeding bottles, bottle teats and creative toys are just a small selection of their range of innovative products.
Fan Ink
STAND 86
“Fan Ink” is introducing to SMMEX the exciting Officially Licensed FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil™ fan wear products, including tattoo sleeves for Adults and Kids, multi-functional head tube and stockings available in your favourite country.
Appearing at SMMEX for the first time, Brazier & Co has been producing bespoke soft toys and PVC items such as keyrings, fridge magnets, beanies, figurines and more to the trade for the last 10 years. The advantage of ordering a bespoke product is to create an exact replica of a mascot character complete with crests and logos to actively promote your club or brand without compromise. Find them on stand 54 where they will be looking forward to meeting new clients as well as catching up with existing clients including Motorola, football clubs, RBS, Virgin and Sony.
STAND 54
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.
STAND 43
Woodland Global are global sports logistics specialists. Their focus is delivering a safe, cost effective service, caring for your shipment minute by minute. At Woodland they recognise the ever changing needs of their customers. With more than 550 highly trained, committed and dedicated staff strategically based around the world, with the technical expertise and depth of industry knowledge to deliver solutions tailor made for you, encompassing core values with focus and emphasis on delivering the highest degree of customer service, Woodland is a brand to be trusted.
STAND 37, 38 & 39
Save & Raise have developed an innovative fund raising vehicle for Sports Clubs worldwide. It’s a unique physical photographic montage for the supporter to represent their team in pictures. A proven model that will create interest and funds for your club. Amazing financial opportunities can arise from promoting Save & Raise.
STAND 5
Brazier & Co
Roy Lowe & Sons
Woodland Global Sports Logistics
FansWall
STAND 4
3T
Drew Pearson International Ltd
STAND 49 & 50
Tomadex
STAND 106
3T are 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 migration and is great for all sports. Both elastic and soft heat transfers have been awarded the highest worldwide certifications for safety and ecology. 3T can also provide next day delivery to the UK.
Drew Pearson International (Europe) Ltd are the UK headwear and accessories licensee for Manchester United, Chelsea FC, Arsenal FC, Liverpool FC, FCB Barcelona, Celtic FC and most recently Tottenham Hotspur FC. Along with football they are also the exclusive headwear and accessories for WWE Wrestling, American Freshman, Lee Cooper, Lonsdale, No Fear, Karrimor and many other properties too. The above licenses include all types of baseball cap, knitted beanie, scarf and gloves for men, ladies & kids too. They also specialise in designing, developing and manufacturing private label headwear for most of the UK high street multiple fashion retailers including NEXT, River Island and Top man as well as making headwear for a number of global brands. TOMADEX Company, existing since 2004, is currently one of the largest manufacturer of accessories for fans in Europe. Acquired during two decades of business experience, modern machinery and qualified personnel enable them to offer a wide range of quality products at reasonable prices. Products on display will include: jacquard scarves, winter hats, bronx hats, printed scarves, printed T-shirts, HD knitted scarves, printed cups, bandanas, balaclavas, printed pillows, pennants, printed minishirts, printed car scarves, fleece gloves, MMA shorts, ice hockey sublimated jerseys and socks, lanyards and printed flags.
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Providing photographic products and solutions to the sports industry PANORAMICS
Our panoramic images look stunning utilised on various products
FRAMED MEMORABILIA
We can produce a vast array of framing solutions for all types of sporting memorabilia
GIFTS & CARD PRODUCTS Budget beating solutions including magnets, greetings cards, key rings, mounted photos and postcards
OFFICIAL LICENSEE FOR Arsenal & Fulham FC UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League
FRAMED PRINTS & CANVAS Various designs and styles from contemporary to classic
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