Thank you for being part OPEN Portland Supply – a first-of-its-kind virtual trade show created in partnership with Candid Wholesale.
Enclosed are various marketing materials and programming details for the 100 Portland sellers participating in this 4 day online event.
Send a personal note to your buyers letting them know about your participation in this trade show and remind them to register to make access and purchasing easier.
Sample email:
Please join me September 1-4, 2020 for OPEN Portland Supply, a curated virtual wholesale trade show where you can shop new items from my Fall/Winter 2020 line as well as explore 100 other Portland brands.
Portland Supply is an OPEN on Candid event which is a new discovery experience that features intuitive search functionality, and easy wholesale ordering through the wholesale e-commerce platform of Candid Wholesale.
In addition to the online shopping experience, there will also be live programming September 2nd and 3rd.
To make accessing the trade show and placing orders even easier and faster, make sure to register for the event.
Make sure to tag @aop_portland, @portland_made and #portlandsupply in any of your promotional posts so we can share them.
On September 2nd and 3rd, we hosted live virtual events to get to know the Portland-made products and the makers behind them better. If you missed them, or want to view again, all of our live presentations were recorded and available to watch:
APPAREL & UNDERGARMENTS
featuring Michelle from Changewear and Jennifer from Handful
WATCH
ATHLETIC & OUTDOOR ACCESSORIES
WATCH
CANDLES
WATCH
HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORIES
WATCH
VERY PORTLAND
WATCH
PROSPER PORTLAND
EDUCATIONAL SESSION
Learn about economic development opportunities, like Mercatus and Portland A&O.
WATCH
KELLIE HOLLOWAY, USCS
EDUCATIONAL SESSION
Learn about new export opportunities from the US Commercial Service.
WATCH
GREETING CARDS
WATCH
PETS & HOBBIES
WATCH
GREETING CARDS
WATCH
LITERARY FOCUSED
WATCH
ATHLETIC & OUTDOOR
WATCH
JEWELRY
WATCH
PERSONAL CARE
WATCH
CANDID WHOLESALE EDUCATIONAL SESSION
Learn about this unique wholesale platform.
WATCH
PORTLAND MADE
EDUCATIONAL SESSION
Learn about this local resource and community.
WATCH
Prosper Portland creates economic growth and opportunity for Portland. Our vision is to make Portland one of the most globally competitive, healthy, and equitable cities in the world by investing in job creation, encouraging broad economic prosperity, and fostering great places throughout the city. We aspire to be a workplace of choice with passionate staff excelling in an open and empowering environment and sharing a commitment to our collective success.
OPEN on Candid is a virtual trade show platform that arose in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As real-world trade shows have been canceled or postponed, we created OPEN as a collaborative and free solution to help like-minded groups of brands open up, support each other, and build online communities of engaged buyers.
During each OPEN event, buyers have time-based access to a curated selection of brands, with the ability to make introductions, begin placing orders right away or schedule appointments for later. Brands have access to powerful tools for reaching new buyers and building orders faster.
Candid Wholesale is a B2B ecommerce platform that helps brands, retailers and showrooms manage and optimize their wholesale operations. The Candid web app makes it easy to buy, sell, and pay for wholesale, with a strong focus on building relationships rather than pushing through one-time transactions.
Basic features are free forever, and all brands exhibiting at Portland Supply will receive Complete-level features at no cost for 12 months following the show.
Portland Made is a membership organization that supports emerging makers in Portland, Oregon by making space for creatives to meet their peers, learn, collaborate and share their stories.
Mercatus elevates the unique and universal narratives of entrepreneurs of color in Portland and connects the city and region with local talents, businesses, services and products that come from the ethnically diverse entrepreneurs in the city.
