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Notonthehighstreet.com comes to Bristol
Leading curated online marketplace notonthehighstreet.com will be hosting an event at M Shed on September 8 in a hunt for the best new creative talent from the region.
One of tour of four major UK cities, Pitch Up provides small creative businesses with the opportunity to pitch their business and products to notonthehighstreet.com’s experts in the hope of joining the site as a seller.
Attendees will also be given free advice to help with the development of their products and businesses and a fifth are anticipated to be signed up as partner sellers on the day. 75 of the company’s current partners were discovered through Pitch Up events.
“Pitch Up has proven to be a great initiative to find and nurture new creative talent so I am delighted to be taking the event to Bristol as we hunt for creative talent there,” commented CEO Simon Belsham. “Of the 5,000 Partners notonthehighstreet.com currently works with, more than 100 are based in Bristol and the surrounding areas. Over the last year, 17 of our Partners sold over a million pounds with us and I’m hopeful that we’ll find the next million pound Partner at our first regional Pitch Up event in Bristol this week!”
Based in Bristol, The Spicery is one of the website’s most successful food and drink partners. Founded by chef James Ransome in 2005 in a spare bedroom with £5,000 of his savings, the company, which started trading at a weekend market in Bath, grew by 49 percent year on year in its first year of trade with notonthehighstreet.com.
Notonthehighstreet.com is home to 5,000 professional designers and makers – from potters to poets and painters and cocktail pastille makers – and achieved gross sales of £158 million in the year ending March 2016.
The event runs from 10am to 5pm. For tickets, visit www.notonthehighstreet.com/pitchup#book.
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