Independent Garden Center (IGC) Show - WOW!
I have had a chance to decompress after attending the IGC show, www.igcshow.com at the Navy Pier in Chicago August 18-20. The vibe and atmosphere at the show was unlike any I have seen at our gift/home shows over the past 3 years. Buyers were excited, have had good selling seasons, and in general were very up beat. This show focuses on the Garden Center and has vendors from high end pottery to seed and mulch vendors. NAPCO, www.napcomarketing.com really stood out here as we showed most of our resin statuary collection which was very well received.
The management team did a phenomenal job of getting the buyers to visit the "new resource" vendors in a TEMP section as they had to walk through our room to attend the many seminars that were offered.
Overall, a great success with lots of orders and many leads for our sales team to follow up on. We have already received residual orders from the show and reps have booked appointments from the leads we provided to them. See you at IGC 2010. JM
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