The place can retailers discover women-owned, mission-oriented manufacturers at summer season markets?

HIGH POINT — Worldwide Market Facilities and the digital JuniperMarket will debut a showcase of women-owned life-style manufacturers on the upcoming Atlanta and Las Vegas markets in July. The 17 female-led manufacturers, collectively referred to as Rise, are a part of IMC’s ongoing efforts to help girls and values-based commerce and convey new gamers and views to its bodily and digital markets.

“Our aim is to carry new voices to wholesale by empowering retailers to inventory their cabinets with merchandise from women-owned companies,” stated Vanessa Bruce, vice chairman of social influence for Juniper by IMC. JuniperMarket is IMC’s B2B on-line answer supplier.

With a rise in shopper issues about the place merchandise are sourced, how they’re made and what an organization values, IMC is working to make it simpler for consumers to supply values-based manufacturers by way of its collaboration with Rise. “Some 80% of the manufacturers featured within the inaugural Rise showcase are helmed by girls of shade,” stated Bruce.

Rise options manufacturers that could be cruelty-free, eco-friendly, handmade, vegan and extra. The manufacturers shall be introduced collectively as a store inside the Atlanta and Las Vegas markets as momentary reveals. Thus far, 17 manufacturers are confirmed, and IMC is engaged on including to its roster.

Firms exhibiting at Atlanta embrace: 700 Rivers, which makes all-natural soaps ethically handcrafted by Bangladeshi artisans who’ve escaped human trafficking, and JJ Paperie and Firm, an eco-friendly stationery and residential merchandise firm that includes hand-drawn designs.

Las Vegas Market introductions embrace Amy Zhang, a stationery and items firm that includes authentic illustrations with 100% of proceeds from choose merchandise going to the ACLU, and Fashionable Concept, a maker of eco-friendly, ethically handmade candles with a portion of its gross sales donated to social causes together with girls’s rights and healthcare.

Bruce will lead a panel dialogue concerning the significance of weighing a manufacturers’ ethics and values when sourcing new distributors and merchandise. “Commerce For Good: The Significance of Values-Primarily based Sourcing” shall be held at 10 a.m., July 16, throughout Atlanta Market and at 2 p.m., July 24, throughout Las Vegas Market.

On the Atlanta Market, Rise shall be positioned within the Constructing 3 Atrium, July 13-17. On the Las Vegas Market, Rise is positioned within the Expo at World Market Heart Las Vegas, July 24-27.