Sponsorship Opportunities

Childcare Expo is your best opportunity in 2012 to meet and do business with key decision makers from the childcare, early years and nursery sector.

The exhibition offers extensive opportunities for you to generate new business and increase brand awareness of your products or services amongst all of our visitors.

Visitors attend Childcare Expo in order to network with existing and new suppliers, to source new products, attend educational seminars, keep up to date with industry developments and mix with industry peers.

Why Sponsorship?

Showcase Product Attributes:

Promote and highlight the unique selling points of your company’s products and target buyers looking to source new products.

Heighten Visibility:

Stand out from your competitors and attract attention from the relevant people with one of our unique sponsorship opportunities.

Brand Awareness and Market Penetration:

Communicate your core brand values both prior to the show and at the show to a dedicated target market all of whom are interested in finding out more about your product.

Drive Sales:

Your ultimate objective is to increase revenue for your company. Sponsorship will allow you to stand above your competitors and ensure that you generate top-of-mind awareness among potential buyers.

Main Sponsor

Known as the UK's leading childcare insurance specialist, they have been arranging childcare insurance for over 45 years and are renowned for their tailored policies, excellent service, competitive premiums and fantastic extra benefits available via the Morton Michel ChildCare Club.

They expertly insure childminders, nannies, day nurseries, pre-schools, parent and toddler groups, out of school clubs, holiday play schemes, mobile crèches, toy libraries, indoor play centres, sporting and educational groups and children's homes. Morton Michel are also providers of motor, minibus and household insurance designed for childcarers.

The main sponsor has the maximum amount of exposure before and during the show. This is through all print promotion, delegate bag, the Childcare Expo website and social media.

Visit www.mortonmichel.com for further information on how Morton Michel can help your childcaring business.

Childcare Expo Associate Sponsor

Branding:

• Use of the Childcare Expo logo on your own marketing materials.
• Display of your logo on signage arranged in prominent positions within Ricoh Arena.
• Display of your logo alongside the exhibition logo on all exhibition printed literature, publicity materials and direct mailings.

Advertising and promotion:

• Opportunity to provide inserts for delegate bags (one A4 leaflet max)
• Display of your logo and a company message with contact details in the Visitor Showguide.
• Display of your logo on the homepage of the Childcare Expo website.
• Display of your logo, company message (500 words), contact details and a hyperlink through to your website on a page within the Childcare Expo website.
• Associate Sponsor will be mentioned in all Childcare Expo press releases.
• The associate sponsor can also provide roller banners which will be placed around the exhibition

Pre Show Opportunities

Newsletter Sponsorship

One of our biggest outlets for advertising Childcare Expo is our email campaign. We send out regular emails to our vast database of contacts both before and after the show. The Newsletter offers informative, event related news and will help visitors to plan their time more effectively. Our database is made up exclusively of early years settings and so this is a great vehicle to use as a means to reach an interested audience. This will also include a link to the sponsor’s website and can be purchased for the whole campaign or on a per email basis.

Registration Page Sponsorship

Most of our visitors will register online so this is a great way to benefit from ongoing association with Childcare Expo both before and during the show. The page will feature your logo as sponsor with link to your website. Exclusive to one sponsor only.

At The Show Opportunities

• Carrier Bags
• Visitor Bag Insert
• Branded Pens
• Logo on Visitor Badges
• Lanyards
• Registration Area
• Promotional Character
• Logo & Enhancement on “You are here” Boards
• Floor Tiles

Other Opportunities

Seminar Theatre

Many delegates attend Childcare Expo in order to visit our exclusive seminars on topics that are important to their childcare or nursery business.

Sponsorship of the seminar room allows you to brand the seminar theatre however you see fit. Your logo will also feature on the seminar page on our website and in the showguide and will also be displayed on selected electronic mailings. At the show your logo will be display alongside all signage for the seminar theatre.

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