The Game Fair, the UK’s largest countryside festival, has launched a new online marketplace selling the event’s latest products.
James Gower, MD at The Game Fair, said: “ShowShoppa is the ideal platform for us to add value for many of our exhibitors who rely on our event to generate sales for them. Creating The Game Fair Shop on our website, where our exhibitors can trade all year round, has huge advantages for us as an event organiser, because we are continuing to connect our visitors to hundreds of small businesses and generate much-needed revenues for them.”
The Game Fair Shop sells a selected range of merchandise to country pursuit enthusiasts from across the UK including: Shooting & Fishing, Food & Drink, Gundogs, Garden & Home, Jewellery, Books & Magazines, Artworks, Clothing & Footwear and much more.
Gower added: “Using ShowShoppa also has the added benefit of keeping these exhibitor relationships buoyant and creating a new resource of product imagery for our marketing teams too.”
The Game Fair online marketplace, using the ShowShoppa marketplace platform for event organisers, will be supported by a marketing campaign consisting of weekly newsletters to its 60,000 buyers, and a social media campaign reaching an average of 250,000 customers every week.
ShowShoppa CEO Brenda Hobday added: “We are so pleased to be able to support this essential UK industry by creating an enticing shop using our platform. The Game Fair attracts many affluent buyers who thoroughly enjoy their country pursuits, and now we can ensure that they have a dedicated place to buy products from an established brand that they trust.”
The organiser is also planning to use the ‘active buyer’ data captured through their shop transactions to market the main event.
Celebrating field sports and country life, The Game Fair boasts a comprehensive itinerary for the whole family, including gundog handling and international competitions, clay shooting, archery, fishing, game cookery, falconry, gamekeeping, ferreting, gardens and much more in between. The Game Fair is the largest festival of the countryside in the whole of Europe, visitors can also enjoy a host of food, drink and shopping stalls, as well as outdoor activities including off-road driving. The wide range of products available on The Game Fair Shop are a reflection of the live event. Small artisan producers and globally recognised names sit comfortably together making The Game Fair shop the perfect online retail destination.
The Game Fair has been affectionately referred to as ‘Glastonbury for the green welly brigade.’ The three-day festival of the countryside makes a much-anticipated return to the familiar surroundings of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire on Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th July 2021. The 3.5 miles of stands and additional interactive features and displays attract around 115,000 visitors and 1000 exhibitors.
Visit: https://thegamefairshop.com/
About The Game Fair
Editor’s notes
- The Game Fair is organised by The National Game Fair Ltd.
- The National Game Fair Ltd took over running the event from the Country Land & Business Association in 2016.
- The Game Fair has been running since 1958.
- 2021 will be the fifth time the event has been held at Ragley Hall in recent years.
Tickets for 2021
Tickets for The Game Fair 2021 are on sale now via www.thegamefair.org Advance tickets for one day cost £29 for an adult and £10 for a child (aged 8 to 16). Advance three-day tickets cost £58 for an adult, £54 for concessions and £20 for children (aged 8-16).
An advance family ticket for two adults and up to three children costs £69 for one day or £140 for all three days. Concessions are available for senior citizens (60+), students and military personnel. On the gate, adult tickets cost £35 and child tickets £10 for one day. Accompanied children aged 8 and under are free. All members of the British Association of Shooting & Conservation are entitled to complimentary entry for all days of the event.
Visitors are encouraged to take advantage of the ‘covid VAT rate reduction’ and pay less for Camping and Enclosure Packages if booked before January 12th 2021.
About ShowShoppa
ShowShoppa is the event industry’s leading marketplace platform for event organisers. ShowShoppa is a new, curated, year-round shop that enables event organisers to connect buyers with exhibitors 365. It provides an additional revenue stream for event organisers and exhibitors by charging commission on every sale made through the marketplace, and it helps to increase exhibitor engagement through event brands and expand an event’s database. To find out more about ShowShoppa visit: www.ShowShoppa.com
