Source Home & Gift, which is co-located with Spring Fair at the NEC from 2 – 5 February 2025, has launched a new feature offering visitors 1-2-1 access to industry leading experts.
Making its debut at the February 2025 show, the new feature offers visitors the opportunity to book 20-minute sessions offering tailored advice and insights free of charge.
The experts will cover a wide range of key topics such as sustainable storytelling, building sourcing strategies, building private label, elevating social media strategies, legislation updates, and much more – to help you elevate your brand.
“The new Ask the Experts feature offers our visitor an invaluable chance to ask the questions that matter most to their business and gain actionable guidance and personalised advice to set their brands apart,” explains Suzanne Ellingham, event director of Source Home & Gift.
From 11am – 12.30pm on Sunday 2 February, people can book in to meet Anna Berry, co-founder and director, Retail 100, who can cover topics including buying, merchandising, sourcing and regional differences, brand development, sustainable storytelling and building a brand narrative, supply chain resilience and retail insights including future trends, consumer behaviour and in-store experiences.
Ami Rabheru, retail strategist from Retail Huddle, is available from 12.30pm – 2pm to discuss topics including seasonal buying strategies, the power of pop-ups for pure play online retailers, retail insights and trends, crafting profitable product strategies and driving sales and sustainable growth.
From 11am – 12.30pm on Monday 3 February, there will be a session with Hayley Shore, senior design manager at Pepsi Co, for insights into the fundamentals of building a sourcing strategy, understanding Pepsi Co’s strategy to creating sustainable merchandise, and packaging and project design.
Andrew Goodacre, ceo, British Independent Retailers’ Association follows at 12.30pm – 2pm offering a wealth of knowledge on aligning vision and strategy to create transformation, how to maximise brand growth through innovative strategies, achieve results from collaboration with other retailers and navigating the current trading landscape.
Tuesday February 4’s sessions kick off at 11am with Mike Coates, assistant director of the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA). He will be offering knowledge on upcoming legislation and regulatory changes, greenwashing advice and guidance, using appropriate language to avoid potentially misleading claims and some of the lessons learned from the fashion industry on sustainability guidance.
Visitors can also book sessions with Kat Graham, managing director of IT strategic consultancy Scout & Swan and on Wednesday February 5 with Sara Allbright from Retail 100.
Sessions can be booked by visiting www.source-homeandgift.com/ask-experts
Top: Among the experts holding 1-2-1 sessions at Source Home & Gift will be, from left to right: Anna Berry, Hayley Shore and Mike Coates.
