After much consideration, and with the aim of providing our valued visitors and exhibitors with the best level of experience and return for their investment in time and support, the venues for the next two Merchandise World’s have been decided.

We hope you will find these venues as exciting as we do, and more importantly, we hope to see you there!

The industry’s best promotional products will be recognised with the Promotional Product Awards at the next Merchandise World at Stoneleigh (Wednesday 30th Jan & Thursday 31st Jan 2019).

New for 2019, BPMA members can enter their 1^st product entry into an award category FREE OF CHARGE.

Please click here for more information and the Entry Form

Please click here to download the Product Template Form

On 5th October 2018, Fluid Branding’s Manchester office attended the Dreams Come True 30th birthday charity ball at Manchester’s Hilton Hotel.
Fluid Branding were proud to be sponsors of the event for the UK children’s charity, whose mission is quite simply to enrich the lives of children and young people from 2 – 21 years old with serious and life-limiting conditions across the country by making their dreams come true.

With the industry’s main exhibition and networking opportunity, Merchandise World taking place in Farnborough on 12 September, it makes sense to use the gathering to share advice and air views on one of the biggest issues facing business in Britain – Brexit. The BPMA Brexit Summit takes place on the afternoon prior to Merchandise World. With Britain set to leave the EU on 29 March 2019, businesses have only six months to prepare for an event that still has many question marks around it.

Certified wholly women-owned business Outstanding Branding, a global distributor of promotional merchandise, revitalised its annual company conference this month and introduced their very first OBcon.

Held off-site at the impressive Devere Theobalds Estate for a full day and night, OBcon was designed to put the global team firmly in the centre and firmly in the picture – the morning session not only reviewed the previous year, but more importantly outlined the Directors’ vision for the next three years.  It also featured the management team presenting detailed plans of how the coming 12 months were shaping up, and how the goals were going to be achieved.

Following on from the award-winning success of 2017, last Thursday 12th July saw the 2nd Annual London Merchandise Show, this year hosted at Gabeto in Stables Market, in the heart of buzzing Camden.

Fluid spiced things up this year with a Cuban theme that was reflected in the branding, products, venue and even in the tropical weather! The aim of the event was to showcase branded merchandise in a relaxed yet inspiring environment with an abundance of creativity, making merchandise relevant and exciting.

The BPMA is bringing together an expert panel on the eve of Merchandise World to debate the impact of Brexit.

On 29th March 2019 the UK will leave the EU.

BPMA members are being encouraged to enter this year’s IPM COGS Awards, the celebration of the partners and agencies who make great campaigns happen.

Designed with service agencies in mind, the IPM COGS Awards encourage both members and non-members to show the world how their contributions have created world-class campaigns. Last year’s event saw BPMA member Pro-Ad picku p two awards (pictured).

This year’s BPMA student design award saw students from Nottingham Trent University tasked with devising a product that had an extended life cycle.

This year’s BPMA student design award has been won by Micael French of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), with a promotional product designed to exploit the burgeoning festival market.

An innovative campaign using contactless technology to give Lucozade customers free travel on London Underground picked up the Grand Prix Award for TBK Group at this year’s IPM Awards.

Lucozade was named as Brand Owner of the Year, after campaigns for sub-brands Lucozade Sport, Lucozade Energy and Lucozade Zero collected five Gold awards, three Silvers, as well as the Grand Prix. TBK Group also took two more Silver trophies for the ‘£10 million Giveaway for Carphone Warehouse’ campaign, helping it cement the title of Agency of the Year 2018.

Fluid Branding has added promotional merchandise show in London to its event schedule. The company has created The London Merchandise Show 2018, which will be held in The Stables Market in Camden.

Since the floorplan for January 2019’s Merchandise World was released in June, 125 Exhibitors have already confirmed their booking, with many more on the reservation list still to contact. More suppliers are joining all the time and backing the show.