Focus on Fashion is designed to provide retailers with an optimal buying experience. This order writing show offers a distinctive selection of apparel and accessory lines, including fresh, new resources, unique merchandise, and an excellent mix of price points. Presented in an open booth setting under one roof, Focus is a professionally run, well organized market that is easy to shop, affords greater line visibility, and allows for efficient use of buying time.

Known for its friendly, courteous, and professional staff, Focus strives to make your buying experience a pleasant one! Show amenities for buyers are numerous, hotels are within close proximity to the market, hotel rates are reasonable, and our tropical climate allows you to combine business with pleasure year round.

Join us at our October 18-20, 2008 Focus on Fashion Ladies’ Apparel & Accessories Show, our most important show of the year, which offers a wonderful assortment of lines that include many new resources! Delivery will be early spring as well as some immediate for holiday.

SHOW HOURS
Saturday, October 18 - 9:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, October 19 - 9:00am-7:00pm
Monday, October 20 - 9:00am-5:00pm

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Focus on Fashion is aWHOLESALE, ORDER-WRITING market produced for the fashion retail trade. THIS SHOW IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. To enter, you must be affiliated with a business that resells product represented in the show. Invoices may be required to verify that your business resells such product. Complete credentials must be presented in order to register and be badged. Focus reserves the right to refuse admission to any person other than those individuals approved for entry.

Focus requires that businesses provide the following credentials for admittance:

All of the Following:

  • Current Business License or Resale Tax Certificate
  • Imprinted Business Check
  • A recent Vendor Invoice or Purchase Order for finished fashion-related products purchased within the last year.
  • Mail Order Companies must provide a catalog.
  • Online businesses must provide an active website through which the business can be validated.
  • Personalized Business ID (one per Buyer required) which can be any of the following:
    • Personalized, imprinted business card
    • Cancelled company payroll check or pay check stub
    • Company credit card with employee’s name and company’s name
  • Photo ID (one per buyer)

    Plus One of the Following:
    - Executed Sales Tax Return
    - White or Yellow Page Business Phone Listing
    - Lease Agreement for Commercial Space

Since this is a wholesale market, open to the trade only, buyers are requested to bring guests ONLY if essential to their business at the show. (Maximum 2 guests per business). Guests will be admitted at Show Management’s discretion and must register on site with a qualified buyer.

Non-exhibiting manufacturers, importers/exporters and wholesalers will NOT be granted admission.

To maintain a business-like atmosphere, no carriages, shopping carts, pets or children under the age of 12 permitted in the show. Children under the age of 18 are not issued “Buyer Badges.”

Focus reserves the right to request additional buyer credentials if we deem it necessary or to deny admittance to any individual or group that it deems inappropriate for its shows.

ON-LINE REGISTRATION FORM
Qualified individuals may pre-register by downloading the Focus Registration Form, filling it out completely, and faxing or mailing it to Florida Fashion Focus along with the required credentials.

Fax to: 305-718-4323
Mail to: Florida Fashion Focus, Inc.
1717 N.W. 79 Avenue
Miami, FL 33126

Pre-registration forms for our October 18-20 show must be received by the Focus Show Office no later than Monday, October 13, 2008.

Focus does not mail buyer badges. If a new buyer has submitted a Registration Form as well as the required credentials, all that must be done to receive a badge upon arriving at the show is to present a photo ID at the Buyer Registration Desk. A badge will be printed on-site.

SHOW POLICIES
THERE IS NO SAMPLE BUYING AT Focus as it is a respected industry event. Guards will stop anyone carrying merchandise out of the exhibit area. The buyer will be required to return the merchandise to the booth from which it came.

Neither buyers nor exhibitors are allowed to photograph any booth except with the express approval of the exhibitor whose lines are to be photographed. (This rule does not apply to show staff. Show staff periodically use photographs of show participants in promotional material. By virtue of your attendance, you automatically agree to usage of your likeness in promotional material.) Unauthorized photography should be reported to the show office.


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