67 GIVING & LIVING PREVIEW With Britain having enjoyed a belated Indian Summer, shops, galleries, garden centres, leisure destinations, hotels and other hospitality businesses have high hopes for a bumper ‘Golden Quarter,’ which beats the economic blues and delivers the goods in the run up to Christmas. Whilst times have been generally quite tough for high street retailers – especially with the increasing burden of crime – tourist resorts benefitted from another strong season and consumers are determined to support local indie retailers at every opportunity. This bodes well for Giving & Living, next taking place from 14-16th January at Westpoint in Exeter, which serves thousands of fantastic indie businesses through a unique mix of exhibitors and product categories. Show features Features at next year’s show will include the Coastal Path, Designed & Made in Britain and Naturally, reflecting the significant growth areas for retail and the locally-made, sustainable ethos that drives the independent trade. Retailers can look forward to seeing Westpoint filled with exceptional suppliers who cross the board from souvenirs, toys, homeware, gifts and greetings cards to handmade crafts, fairtrade gems, fashion accessories, confectionary, crystals and ice-cream. As an added bonus, the beautiful city of Exeter and historic Exmouth are there to be explored, within easy distance of the show. As the first show in the exhibition calendar, Giving & Living has the prime position when it comes being first in the queue in the ordering books of favoured suppliers. This means that if you’re keen to get a head start on the hottest trends for 2024, there’s no better place than this to stake your claim on must-have merchandise. Visitors should keep an eye out for the Pantone Colour of the Year, which for 2024 is Apricot Crush, a warm and versatile colour which works well on home interiors and points to a renewed Mediterranean influence that has already been coming through in the outdoor living sector over the past few seasons. Tourism Heartlands For suppliers who want to reach further into the tourism heartlands than other exhibitions can offer – and for a fraction of the price – show organiser, Hale Events, will welcome you with a smile and that all-important personal touch which means so much to independent businesses. Giving & Living offers a prime opportunity to tap the riches of the South-West trade, which has some of the most iconic leisure destinations, countless wonderful hotels and incredible independent retailers and galleries within its catchment area. Hale Events Managing Director, Mike Anderson, said: “Now there are signs of inflation slowing down and that the economy will stabilise, we are looking forward to another great show in the New Year. The British tourism sector continues to boom and the South-West region has particularly benefitted from the rise of staycations and renewed enthusiasm for holidays closer to home. “Much as this part of the country has its own micro climate – not to mention such treasures as the Eden Project – so do we have a particular local economy which benefits as much from the spring seasons and summer as it does Christmas. Suppliers who join us in January will be able to reach a unique audience which incorporates buyers from hospitality and leisure as well as the independent giftshops and galleries which help make this such an interesting region. We have a great community spirit and all are welcome to join us!” For more information about Giving & Living call T: + 44 (0)1934 733 433 email mail@hale-events.com or visit the website: www.givingliving.co.uk/ SERVING THE SOUTH Giving & Living serves thousands of fantastic indie businesses through a unique mix of exhibitors and product categories IN BRIEF: WHO: Giving & Living, www.givingliving.co.uk WHERE: Westpoint, Exeter WHEN: 14-16 January, 2024
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