The Right Honourable Michael Portillo will be the opening speaker at Sourcing City Marketplace next Wednesday. (9.15am Wednesday 25th September at FIVE in Farnborough.)

Michael will be speaking on the political events of the day and how they affect our businesses. Anyone who has watched Michael in his regular weekly guest slot on ‘This Week’ on BBC1, will know that his views are powerfully insightful.

Sourcing City Marketplace is an established and universally acclaimed industry VIP Networking Event. The two day trade event is appointment based and exclusively for individually invited promotional merchandise industry VIP’s.

This is the place to meet both new potential suppliers, and your existing suppliers by appointment. The environment is relaxed, and conversations are focussed on the event theme of ‘Let’s do business’. You will hear about the suppliers’ added value services, late season new products, product range overviews, and you can develop & review your individual trading partnership plans. VIP’s make appointments for supplier meetings prior to SC Marketplace, and suppliers can also contact top distributors to make key appointments prior to SC Marketplace.

To ensure that all invited VIP’s can have quality conversations with the suppliers’ full attention, it is necessary to limit who is invited to SC Marketplace. VIP’s are invited from distributor companies which have a turnover of promotional merchandise sales of between ?10m+ and ?500k pa.

All invited VIP’s enjoy Free Pre-Show Speakers, Free Breakfast, Free Roving Tea Trolley, Free Lunch & Drinks, Free Crepes & Smoothies, Free Sweets, Free Drinks Reception, Free Parking, Free WiFi, Hotel Vouchers, Travel Vouchers & Free Transfers.

Distributor VIP’s from ?500+ companies are also invited to either the ‘Platinum Networking Dinner’, or ‘Diamond Dinner’, hosted by a group of sponsoring suppliers on the evening of Day One at SC Marketplace. The evening provides further opportunities to network, and to meet & build relationships with suppliers and fellow VIP’s.