All Outdoor Trade Show articles

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    OTS 2025 will be the largest yet

    30 May 2025

    The leading UK trade event for the outdoor industry is set to welcome over 140 exhibitors and packed programming in mid-June in Liverpool.

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    Aku launches rebrand and dealer program at OTS

    30 May 2025

    The Italian outdoor footwear brand unveils a new logo, strategy and product features to strengthen its market presence and expand into the professional sector.

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    Visitor registration now open for OTS 2025 in June

    4 April 2025

    Visitor registration is now open for the Outdoor Trade Show 2025, the UK’s largest outdoor trade show, returning to Liverpool with 130+ brands and new product launches.

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    UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2025: Winners announced

    20 March 2025

    The awards recognized outstanding products across ten categories, with the Rab Veil XP 30 named Product of the Year.

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    Recap: OTS 2024 Sustainability Breakfast

    25 June 2024

    The British Outdoor Trade Show summer event has copied the principle of the European Outdoor Group’s (EOG) gathering on the second morning of the show to get interested people in the same room to focus on a subject. Whereas OutDoor by ISPO has migrated to the whole reach of the ...

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    Trade show recap: OTS finds a long-term home in Liverpool

    25 June 2024

    Last week, outdoor brands, retailers, not-for-profit organizations, and journalists headed to Liverpool for the 2024 edition of the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which, after changing venues multiple times over the last decade, seems to have firmly made the Liverpool Exhibition Centre its home. Held over three days across one 8,100-sqm ...

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    Voting for UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2023 now open

    21 November 2023

    Online voting for the UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2023 is now open. Participating voters will also be in with a chance of winning either a £500 (€572) Ellis Brigham Gift Card, or a pair of £100 tickets for the 2024 Kendal Mountain Festival. The public vote is the final ...

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    Trade shows: “Sometimes the value cannot be beaten”

    23 June 2023

    After OTS in the UK, Charles Ross still sees value in trade shows. The best bring leadership, collaboration and are moving with the Industry.

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    UK Outdoor Industry Award finalists announced

    15 June 2023

    The finalists for the 2023 UK Outdoor Industry Awards were announced on June 14 in a presentation at the 2023 Outdoor Trade Show Social. All award finalists, including products from Silva, Berghaus, Ortlieb, Petzl, Edelrid, Montane, Picture Organic, Exped, Gruezi Bag, Goal Zero and TentBox, can be viewed on the ...

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    OIA Outdoor Industry Awards 2023 open for entries

    5 April 2023

    The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) has officially launched the UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2023, for which brands from across the industry can apply until May 6, 2023. All entries will again be exhibited at the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which takes place June 13-15, 2023, at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool. ...

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    Review: Slide/OTS Winter 2023

    30 January 2023

    With the flip of ISPO to before Christmas and much nearer the opening of the Fall/Winter 23/24 buying window, the British show acted more as a way to wrap up order-taking for retailers. ISPO also was reorganized to have Hall B2 as the center of conversations and thinking. Munich saw ...

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    Running Industry Alliance partners with OTS

    1 December 2022

    The Running Industry Alliance (RIA) has announced a partnership with the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) that includes a dedicated RIA Trail Running Area at next year’s show. OTS claims to be the U.K.’s only large-scale outdoor sport and leisure-focused trade show. Its 17th edition will be held at the Exhibition ...

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    Booth booking for OTS 2023 now open

    11 November 2022

    Following the success of the 2022 show, preparations are already underway for the next edition of the Outdoor Trade Show (OTS), which will be held again at Exhibition Centre Liverpool from June 13-15, 2023. The show is now accepting booking requests from new exhibitors who wish to participate. Prices start ...

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    U.K. Outdoor Industry Awards 2022 winners announced

    20 September 2022

    At its recent annual conference in Sheffield, the U.K.’s Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) has announced the winning products of this latest U.K. outdoor industry awards. This year, the categories have been expanded to include “diversity and inclusion.” The other categories are accessories, backpacks, camping equipment, climbing, clothing, tech accessories, footwear, ...

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    Opinion: What place do trade shows have in the future of the Outdoor community?

    1 July 2022

    As the debrief from the re-connection of the industry at OutDoor by ISPO continues, those responsible for the marketing budgets are debating whether the gatherings are still the best investment of resources. For those who did not make it to the Munich Order Center – you missed the energy and ...

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    OTS 2022 scores well with visitors and exhibitors

    20 June 2022

    The three-day Outdoor Trade Show (OTS) 2022 at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool attracted 829 visitors, a 17 percent increase from the previous year. Interestingly, visitor statistics indicate that buyers are spending more time at the show: A total of 1070 visitors (including repeat visitors) came over the three days, ...

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    Outdoor Retailer returns to Utah

    23 March 2022

    Outdoor Retailer is returning to Salt Lake City, Utah. The last show in Denver will be OR Summer from June 9-11, 2022.

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    OIA opens entry phase for 2022 UK Outdoor Industry Awards

    21 March 2022

    Returning on the stage as a live display at the Outdoor Trade Show, held in Liverpool in June 2022, the UK Outdoor Industry Awards will spotlight the most innovative products of the years in different categories. The products applied to the competition that is organized by the Outdoor Industry Association ...

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    Review: Slide/OTS Winter trade show 2022

    24 January 2022

    The British Snowsport Tradeshow happened in central England last week, on the Welsh border, to allow relatively easy travel for everyone to reach the event. Building on previous events, the exhibition had also combined with the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), so those outdoor brands had a chance to demonstrate their ...

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    Early-bird bookings for Slide and OTS close mid October

    14 September 2021

    The Slide and Outdoor Trade Show Winter, planned for Oct. 18-20 at the Telford International Centre, U.K., reports increasing demand for its exhibition space. According to the organizing company Rare Management, two-thirds of the space is already booked. For brands wanting to take advantage of reduced booking rates, time is ...