Grow your business with SDEA...

SDEA works tirelessly to drive sales leads your way. It invests in a variety of high quality printed and digital media, user friendly, online search facilities and ‘over the phone’ advice to help buyers and specifiers source all manner of retail display. In addition, SDEA organises frequent and invaluable networking events where many new business links are forged.

See how SDEA can increase your sales:

SDEA Directory
Traditionally, more members join SDEA to appear in our prestigious annual Directory than for any other reason. It has proved to be an excellent marketing tool, attracting substantial sales leads from the UK and overseas. Your company will be entered in all five sections and you have the opportunity to enhance this further with a full colour showcase or advertisement. Click here for more about the SDEA Directory.

SDEA website
More and more of us now do our sourcing online, and our website has proved just as successful as the Directory for putting members and buyers together. Your listing on our site includes all your contact details and most importantly, a hyperlink to your own site. Once again increasing your exposure and your opportunity for sales. You can update your entry at any time, highlight which of the 400 product lines you specialise in and enter all the keywords which define your offer.

The website attracts over 130,000 unique visitors every year - that's over 10,000 a month.

Red hot sales leads
Our telephone information service, is constantly busy with buyers’ calls. We will pass these and online enquiries straight to you via telephone or email. All sales leads are passed on within minutes of receipt.

SDEA marketing
Our targeted public relations, editorial, advertising and direct mail campaigns in a variety of digital and traditional media mean that thousands of retail display buyers are exposed to our promotion every month, keeping SDEA at the forefront of retailers' minds.

SDEA App
The SDEA App is an industry first, giving members contact details, news and more to the users fingertips.

Creative Retail Awards
We organise an annual awards ceremony for everthing involved in retail design and display.

Bringing together the whole industry, the Creative Retail Awards is a new type of awards ceremony that blends networking with an informal party atmosphere celebrating the diversity in our industry. The awards recognise talent across the full spectrum of retail design and display in a broad range of awards categories, encompassing store concepts, visual merchandising, POP, lighting, signage and much more.

Networking
We organise business and social events that act as excellent opportunities to network and do business. Joining the Executive Council which meets bi-monthly and oversees the running of SDEA can also have its rewards.

Inter company trading with our free Member Matching Service - m2m
Regularly updated, our Member Matching Service pairs what members are seeking to buy with another member who can supply.  You will find that by being involved with SDEA you will begin to trade with other members. We will also market your business to other members by emailing your brochures and publicising member to member discounts in the 'members only' area of the website.

Databases
We hold a number of databases, which can be bought at extremely competitive prices. You may like to target the SDEA ‘top 800 retailers’, 300+ department stores or 200+ retail trade publications with your next new product launch or marketing campaign.

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