{"id":26107,"date":"2011-10-24T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26107"},"modified":"2011-10-24T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:24:47","slug":"launch-another-west-coast-trade-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26107","title":{"rendered":"Launch: Another West Coast Trade Show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/29287979?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=4cf0dc&amp;autoplay=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Editor <strong>Josh Hunter<\/strong> is now directing Southern California&#8217;s latest action fashion trade show for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glmshows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GLM Shows<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfexpo.com\/\"><strong> Surf Expo&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> parent company<strong>)<\/strong>. It&#8217;s called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.launchshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Launch<\/a><\/strong> and it sounds a lot like a more corporate version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agendashow.com\/\"><b>Agenda Show<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;juried show&#8221; will be held July 25-26, 2012 in Santa Monica, California&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/barkerhangar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barker Hangar<\/a><\/strong>. It appears that Launch has lined up a few fashion hitters to help kick things off. For more background on Launch check out an interview with Hunter at <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/75816\/features\/surf-expos-parent-announces-new-trade-show-launch-la\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/em><\/strong> or follow the jump for the official word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.launchshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Launch Show<\/a>] <\/strong><!--more-->Santa Monica, CA (October 24, 2011)\u2014LAUNCH LA will be held at the historic Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on July 25\u201326 in order to provide a select group of design-driven brands, influential buyers and media a needed alternative to the trade shows currently available on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a departure from the conventional concept of trade shows, offering the press and key retail buyers a distilled, first look at game changing products at the true beginning of the buy\/sell cycle. LAUNCH LA will present those offerings in a way that\u2019s evocative and easily digestible, enabling attendees to quickly discern apex items and brands that lead the market<\/p>\n<p>LAUNCH LA is a juried event and our panel of experienced and influential experts will screen each company based on quality, design and originality in order to ensure the best product assortment from leading men\u2019s and women\u2019s contemporary fashion labels, footwear and accessories brands, lifestyle and action sports lines, as well as swim, apothecary, and technology collections.<\/p>\n<p>In order to offer a level playing field for young designers and emerging labels, each exhibitor will be limited to either a single or double studio space where they can create enticing, unique environments to display their brand\u2019s highlighted product and company DNA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market is rich with fresh creative talent, and that\u2019s exactly what this show celebrates,\u201d explains Josh Hunter, Head of Sales and Marketing at LAUNCH LA. \u201cWorking as a magazine editor for six years, I covered countless trade shows and realized that ultimately each brand\u2019s collection could be defined by one or two directional items. With LAUNCH, we encourage our exhibiting brands to distill their presentation down to these pinnacle items in a manner that caters to time-pressed media and retail accounts looking to identify leading trends at the very front end of Spring\/ Summer selling cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first five LAUNCH LA jury members to be announced are Gotcha Founder Michael Tomson; Saturdays Surf NYC Co-founders Morgan Collett, Josh Rosen and Colin Tunstall; and Jeff Yokoyama, who founded Maui &#038; Sons, Pirate Surf, Modern Amusement, and most recently Generic Youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you bring to the table that is substantially different?\u201d asks Tomson, who has been an advocate for innovation in the surf lifestyle market for decades. \u201cYou have to do one thing better than anybody else. That\u2019s critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on LAUNCH LA, contact Josh Hunter at (910) 200-0454 or jhunter@launchshow.com. Visit the Launch LA Web site at: launchshow.com<\/p>\n<p>For Every Great Product There Is A LAUNCH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Transworld Business Editor Josh Hunter is now directing Southern California&#8217;s latest action fashion trade show for GLM Shows ( Surf Expo&#8217;s parent company). It&#8217;s called Launch and it sounds a lot like a more corporate version of the Agenda Show. This &#8220;juried show&#8221; will be held July 25-26, 2012 in Santa Monica, California&#8217;s Barker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26107"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26118,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions\/26118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}