The Fashion & Jewellery Exchange Ireland

Thursday 28th September - Virtual event - Enterprise Nation
If you're looking to start or grow a fashion or jewellery business, this online event is for you!
Industry experts and successful entrepreneurs will be on hand to provide top tips for growing a great brand and considering sustainability for your business. Buyers will also share how you can pitch your products.
You will enjoy a programme of business advice and four attendees will have the opportunity to pitch live to a buyer on stage. Exchange events put you in touch with large brand buyers looking for products just like yours.
Speakers include:
- Alec Tubridy, industry engagement executive, GS1 Ireland
Alec supports GS1 members in the design and development of supply chain solutions, collaborating with industry specialists from GS1 Ireland’s user community to support the implementation of solutions to meet business needs. Alec works as a liaison between industry and GS1 and supports initiatives to bring GS1 standards-based solutions to market.
- Sarah Blake, director, Earthology
Sarah is enthusiastic about communicating sustainability practices to businesses and individuals in a straightforward way, through talks, workshops and strategy. She believes that putting sustainability at the heart of what your business does will increase revenue, drive staff retention and reduce risk.
- Danielle Gerry, fashion brand adviser
Danielle offers a straight-talking business strategy for emerging fashion brands that want to overcome their sales struggles and build a profitable business.
- Aoife McNamara, founder, Aoife McNamara Clothing
Aoife McNamara Clothing is a luxury sustainable fashion brand that creates unique garments inspired by nature, to protect nature. Founded in 2019, the brand reimagines the future of sustainable design by reconnecting the fashion industry to the natural world. It values creativity and beauty, people and the planet, quality over quantity, and aims to create beauty not destroy it.
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