ANNOUNCEMENT: The Merchandise World September Show is Changing

The Merchandise World exhibition to be held in Milton Keynes on Wednesday 10th September 2025, will have a new environmentally friendly product focus, a new unique format, and a new name, Sustainable Merchandise World.

Sustainable Merchandise World in September will continue as it always has, as an exhibition for professional trade distributors to discover new products and to meet with trade suppliers.

In addition, the revamped show will now also provide the opportunity for distributors to invite a selection of their own clients to the show for a nominal cost. This will create a unique experience for the personally invited clients and show them a window into the professionalism of the promotional merchandise industry.

The September show will also exclusively feature speakers on sustainability issues and opportunities.

Who is invited?

As always, all management and teams from professional distributors are warmly welcomed.

Many distributor clients highly value the expert advice, support, and service they get from distributors, and have no interest in going direct. Having a reliable distributor with the expertise to generate ideas and to administer orders across a myriad of suppliers is something many clients value. These would be ideal people to invite.

The concept of inviting clients to directly meet the exhibitors means that they will see, and through quality conversations, learn more details about the products that are of interest to them. In turn, the host distributor will generate sales enquiries they may not have expected.

Sustainable Merchandise World provides a unique experience for distributor clients, will create business for everyone, and is the perfect place to reinforce relationships with important clients.

Only invited and pre-registered distributor clients will be admitted in September (Not January). Their identity will be protected at all times. General end-users will not be able to gain entry to any show.

Procedures

Strict procedures and rules apply for both distributors bringing clients and exhibiting suppliers.

The written procedure and rules ensure that all transactions are ethical, and that trade distributors visiting without clients do not have their experience affected by the distributor client guests.

To view the procedure for distributors, and to see how the day will work: please click here. – Exhibitors: please click here.

Products

The Sustainable Merchandise World exhibition will feature environmentally friendly promotional merchandise, but not exclusively, as all best-selling quality promotional merchandise will be of interest to all trade distributor visitors and distributor client guests.

Sustainability Speakers

The show will for the first time have professional speakers, who will educate and inform on important sustainability issues and opportunities.

The sustainability speakers will be courtesy of the industry’s trade association, and joint owners of Merchandise World, the BPMA (British Promotional Merchandise Association).

IMPORTANT NOTE

Merchandise World held in January each year is the largest promotional merchandise trade exhibition in the UK, and this will not be changing in any way.

This highly successful January trade exhibition will always remain exclusive to qualified professional trade distributors.

For more information, please contact:

The Merchandise World Team 01252 224191 – or – info@merchandiseworld.co.uk