LOCAL ENTERPRISE SHOWCASE 2025 - RDS, DUBLIN
Dates: 19th to 21st January 2025
Applications are now OPEN!
Showcase - Ireland’s Creative Expo® is now the foremost place for retailers to discover unique, design-led fashion and knitwear, jewellery, craft, gift and interiors. The show attracts buyers and press from Ireland and around the world looking for unique, design-led products in fashion, knitwear, jewellery, crafts, gifts and home accessories.
Running for over forty years, Showcase has an impressive track record in attracting Ireland’s most talented makers and designers, along with buyers from over twenty countries.
It offers the chance to explore the best of Ireland's creativity from over 450 exhibitors including leading Irish designers and manufacturers and the very best emerging home-grown creative talent.
Showcase is a B2B opportunity for clients who are wholesale ready. The Local Enterprise Clients are located in Hall 3 (The Serpentine Hall),on 19th to 21st January 2025, and this hall is called the Local Enterprise Showcase
Each Local Enterprise Office has been allocated three stands at the Local Enterprise Showcase.
Overview of Client Offering:
- Stands are 2 x 2 Metres
- Space as per allocation
- Name Plate
- Spotlights x 2
- Client Training Sessions which will be delivered in person on 1st and 8th of October 2024 (Clients must attend one session). Please advise your clients that attendance at this session is compulsory.
- A series of short online one hour training courses to help prepare the client pre and post-Show (dates and times to be confirmed)
- Access to 1-1 mentoring in key areas such as pricing, trading terms, etc
- Access to PR Opportunities co-ordinated by the LEO Communications Office
- The cost per stand to the client is €800 and there is no contribution from the LEO Offices for same. Please note there is no VAT applicable to the client element of the stand fee of €800.
- The client contribution will be collected by LEO South Dublin upon confirmation of the application and will be payable online by the client. The clients’ payments for Showcase Stands are due by Thursday, 26th September 2024. Approved Productions will issue the payment link on behalf of LEO South Dublin directly to the clients at the time of confirmation.
Selection of Clients:
Showcase is broken down into four main strands:
- Home & Gift
- Fashion
- Jewellery
- Wellbeing
The aim of the Local Enterprise Showcase is to showcase the best clients countrywide.
The clients should be at least 12 months trading and they should represent the best of your clients. The aim of the Local Enterprise Showcase is to showcase the best the LEOs have to offer nationwide representing the Irish Craft and Design sector.
Each applicant should:
- Be trading for more than 12 months
- Have a product that is suitable for wholesale and will have the capacity to deliver on orders received at the Show
- Be financially aware of the wholesale market and its expectations
Applications are invited from clients in the following craft sectors: fashion and knitwear, jewellery, and home and gift crafts. Applications from food and drink producers are not eligible.
To apply, go to this link below on the National Submit platform,
https://submit.link/2Ho
The Deadline for Applications is Monday 1st July, at 11.55pm.
Best of luck!
