Theo Paphitis’ #SBS Teams with Autumn Fair for 2020 show
#SBS Small Business Sunday, the online business community founded by entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, has announced that it will again team up with Autumn Fair for 2020, following successful partnerships with the show in 2018 and 2019.
#SBS began in 2010 and has seen hundreds of small businesses tweet Paphitis every week to gain access to the supportive small business network. Every Monday, six of these businesses are invited to become part of the #SBS community, benefiting from boosted publicity and attendance at a yearly #SBS conference with access to motivational speakers and workshops.
As part of the partnership with Autumn Fair, 12 members of the #SBS community will be offered free stands at the season’s number one buying marketplace for home and gift retail. Between now and Friday 1st May, #SBS’s 3,000 members will all be offered a chance to put themselves forward for the competition, with the winners being judged on their uniqueness of product, innovative contributions to retail and viability of business plan.
Previous winners have spoken about how important winning the competition and exhibiting at Autumn Fair has been for their business. 2019 winner Michelle Davies, founder of Ascent Bath & Body, said of her #SBS Autumn Fair experience: “It has been such an amazing and thought-provoking experience. I have gained so much valuable knowledge and information from fellow exhibitors that I can’t wait to implement when the show has finished. Autumn Fair has elevated my business to the next level.”
Fellow winner that year, Howard Carter, founder of The Smokey Charter, speaking about their show experience said: “It’s great to meet fellow traders and new customers – we have 5 new stockists who’ve placed orders in our first two days at the show.”
This year’s winners will be selected in June by a panel of retail experts from Autumn Fair organisers, Hyve Group. At the show, the lucky #SBS exhibitors will take centre stage at the Fair and gain access to tens of thousands of visitors and buyers ready to order products ahead of the busiest retail period of the year – the Golden Quarter.
