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Sorry its taken us a few days to get this post up - time is flying by at the moment!
Just a little follow up on our #PitchUp to the John Lewis Buyers last Friday, 1st August.
All the businesses pitching in the morning were asked to arrive at 830am to the John Lewis Head Quarters at Victoria, London. PopUp Britain the organisers, greeted us and we had a quick briefing session and were introduce to the two Heads of buying and they were nice! Not scary at all... well not really..! Our pitch went well - you will see the photograph above of us in the pitch. There were 5 buyers in our pitch including the Head of Children's buying across the categories and also the head buyer for childrenswear. We had 30 minutes altogether to talk about SquidLondon and the new SquidKids range we are bringing out and to show off all the cool products! It was good fun, once you start you are fine as you know the business inside out so there are no trick questions that can not be answered.
All the businesses pitching in the morning were asked to arrive at 830am to the John Lewis Head Quarters at Victoria, London. PopUp Britain the organisers, greeted us and we had a quick briefing session and were introduce to the two Heads of buying and they were nice! Not scary at all... well not really..! Our pitch went well - you will see the photograph above of us in the pitch. There were 5 buyers in our pitch including the Head of Children's buying across the categories and also the head buyer for childrenswear. We had 30 minutes altogether to talk about SquidLondon and the new SquidKids range we are bringing out and to show off all the cool products! It was good fun, once you start you are fine as you know the business inside out so there are no trick questions that can not be answered.
We stayed for lunch so we could meet the other businesses and also a guest speaker was to join us, Ed Vickers from Jollie Goods who last year, after a successful #PitchUp was granted a mentor and shelf space for his awesome socks! Every pair that you buy, a homeless person in the vicinty of were you purchased your socks receives a pair for free. A great inspirational speaker and all round awesome guy.
Excitingly we have contacted by the head of chlidrenswear to be our mentor and have a meeting in 2 weeks!! Fingers crossed - we would just love to be stocked in John Lewis and hope they think the same too.
Speak soon,
The Squidders xx
The Squidders xx
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