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Garden centre chain Dobbies has collaborated with Matt Hopkins, founder of IND!E Pop-Up, to provide independent brands with a showcase of their products Dobbies Garden Centres Matthew Hopkins IND!E #retail #popup #gifts

🌟 10,000 Popup Shops - Done 🌟 This is a huge milestone for Matthew Hopkins and the IND!E team, working towards our mission to empower SME Challenger brands, delivering tread-led products, bringing diversity, localism and much more to major retailers. Our unique models, amazing brands and close retailer partnerships make this happen. This week our SME network hit a whopping 16,500 brands, well on our way to our target...! 💪 Thank you to everyone within the IND!E community. Thank you to all our retailers including John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose & Partners, Boots UK, Dobbies Garden Centres, Harvey Nichols, Morleys Department Stores Limited for supporting us along the way and our rapidly growing SME Network. Here's to the next 10,000 🥂 #smallbusiness #popup #retail #sales #missiondriven #trends #retailtrends

🌟 10,000 Popup Shops - Done 🌟 This is a huge milestone for Matthew Hopkins and the IND!E team, working towards our mission to empower SME Challenger brands, delivering tread-led products, bringing diversity, localism and much more to major retailers. Our unique models, amazing brands and close retailer partnerships make this happen. This week our SME network hit a whopping 16,500 brands, well on our way to our target...! 💪 Thank you to everyone within the IND!E community. Thank you to all our retailers including John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose & Partners, Boots UK, Dobbies Garden Centres, Harvey Nichols, Morleys Department Stores Limited for supporting us along the way and our rapidly growing SME Network. Here's to the next 10,000 🥂 #smallbusiness #popup #retail #sales #missiondriven #trends

Throwback to Speciality & Fine Food Fair last month where we launched our partnership with Ocado Retail and hosted 2 x Pitch Lives where we searched for the best new thing in food and drink! 📣 The winners of the food & drink pitches won a space on the IND!E Shop-in-shop on Ocado! We are now busy behind the scenes working on launching the IND!E Shop-in-shop with Ocado before Christmas. We are still on the hunt for new and emerging brands in all product categories so if you want to be part of this exciting ongoing venture with Ocado then please do register your brand via the link below: https://lnkd.in/gE_V-PnU #ocado #retailtrends #tradshow #popupshops #retailinnovation

A webinar not to miss! In this webinar with GS1 UK discover how pop-up shops can be a game-changer for SMEs and much more with an expert panel of judges including our very own Matthew Hopkins. Register your place below!

🎉 Calling Small Businesses. 🎉 Do you want to pop-up in leading retailer Dobbies Garden Centres? Meet new customers, test your products and boost your sales in Q4. Our Christmas calendar is open and we’ve just added 15 NEW locations to the list so we can offer as many brands possible a store near them!   There is so much happening at Dobbies Garden Centres across the UK this Autumn and Christmas making it a popular shopping destination where you could meet lots of new customers. Events include Pumpkin picking and Halloween family fun, Santa’s grotto and their pet loving Santa Paws where furry friends can meet Santa. So far, we’ve seen some brilliant pop-ups and we can’t wait to see more.   Click on the link below to register your brand for a pop-up in Dobbies this Q4 and the team will be in touch. https://lnkd.in/eFNHy4vV #popupshops #independentbrands #indiepopup

🎉IND!E Pop-Up 🎉 Amazing to see Ayshea McCormack from The Small Home in John Lewis & Partners Peter Jones this week. This brilliant brand was one of 3 winners of the John Lewis International Women's Day female creators search and won a pop-up shop in partnership with us at IND!E. The Small Home is on all of our Christmas Lists here at IND!E. They are experts in the art of nesting, The Small Home create pure and natural products for harmonious living. Their sheepskin slippers are a particular favourite of ours. Brilliant to see a visit from Rosie Hanley from John Lewis & Partners yesterday who has been a fantastic supporter of this campaign to support small brands and women in business. #indiebusiness #popupshops #supportsmallbusiness #womeninbusiness #womenowned #johnlewispopup

🎉 Exciting news for small businesses! 🌟 We have opened up 15 new pop-up shop locations within Dobbies Garden Centres just in time for the festive season! 🎄✨ After launching our pop-up shops with Dobbies, IND!E brands have done brilliantly and we’ve had requests for further locations. We are pleased to be able to offer more businesses a pop-up shop near them. This is the perfect opportunity for small businesses to showcase their products and connect with shoppers looking for unique gifts this Christmas. Dobbies have so many festive activities in store – it’s a super busy time of year for them. Check out the locations in the post and get ready to meet new customers and Christmas shoppers. 🎁❤️ #PopUpShops #ShopLocal #DobbiesGardenCentres #SupportSmallBusiness #popupretail

📽️ What an engaging session! 📽️ We have just ended another fantastic discussion with Retail100 Consulting as part of our learning series with them. We talked about HOW and WHAT small brands are doing to revolutionise retail. Thank you to everyone who joined us. If you missed it, please email info@popupindie.com and we can provide you with the recording. Big thanks to Sara Allbright Anna Berry Elaine Hooper and Neil Armer and our very own Matthew Hopkins. #smallbrandgrowth #supportsmallbusiness #smallbiz

🏅 🏅 In store this week at John Lewis Partnership Oxford Street until 13th October🏅 🏅 Small Fries Games and their fabulous range of Children's games are one of three brands who won an IND!E Pop-Up in support of John Lewis & Partners International Womens Day campaign. We are delighted to support John Lewis Partnership with this initiative and to enable more brands within our network brilliant retail opportunities. #sme #newbusiness #sales #smallbusiness #letsgrow