Welcome to Landscape Ontario’s EXPO 2012!
If you purchase, approve, design, or merchandise for the green industry, then you should attend EXPO Garden and Floral Show.
At EXPO 2012, Garden & Floral Expo, the spotlights will be brightly focused on the plants, flowers, exquisitely merchandised displays and educational opportunities that will capture your imagination, excite your senses and provide you with the retail marketing inspiration to adapt them to your store or garden centre. The Landscape Ontario EXPO Garden and Floral Expo is the venue where people from every aspect of the floriculture/horticulture industry come together to network, learn and do business together. It’s the perfect place to find the new ideas, products, tools, services and connections you need to build and grow your business!
Here is where you will find the products, services, knowledge base and educational streams required for a lasting and positive impact on your sales revenues and profits.
The Growing Green theme for EXPO 2012 is about cultivating sustainable thinking and practices. We invite you, the business owner, to look at your business processes and think about how to be more cost-efficient, effective and relevant while encouraging environmentally sound operational and management practices. Growing Green at EXPO takes a collaborative approach, bringing retailers, suppliers and industry experts together under one roof to meet, network, discuss and develop strategies for addressing these challenges.
Your Invitation to Innovation
At EXPO 2012, you will meet our industries leading suppliers who will showcase their new, improved and more effective products, services, technologies and creative ideas, all with the goal of helping you grow both your business and bottom line. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, it pays for floral and garden centre retailers to be aware of new emerging trends and to engage the innovations that can propel their businesses to new heights competitively, financially and environmentally.
Your Invitation to Inspiration
At EXPO 2012, you have a once a year opportunity to surround yourself with your peers, suppliers and leading industry authorities with the ideas, vision and knowledge to get you, and keep you, inspired. Be part of the burst of creativity that results from this interactive collaboration and learn the strategies and tactics to harness this inspiration and profitably incorporate it into your business.
Your Invitation to Investigation
With over 200 exhibitors, all under one roof, a visit to EXPO 2012 is time well spent! Whether you’re there to meet with existing suppliers, or to research and engage new ones, the show offers a one stop shopping destination for all the exciting new products and services available to your business. Use the unique advantages of face-to-face interaction on the trade show floor to network, research, learn, and ultimately earn more for your business. Join us at EXPO 2012 to meet growers of distinctive flowers, trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, ground covers, indoor tropical plants and all the collateral products and services that will drive sales and increase store profits.
Your Invitation to Rejuvenation
New ideas + New products+ New ways of doing things = New customers.
In today’s competitive and fast paced business environment, staying relevant means recognizing and capitalizing on your successes while letting go of the old habits and processes that hinder the growth of your company. Learn from experts the ways and means to keep your business more focused, more energetic and more relevant in the eyes of a changing customer demographic.
Your Invitation to Education
Attend the horti/floriculture industry's leading education programs. The show will host a variety of dynamic networking and professional development sessions, designed, developed and hosted by a number of Landscape Ontario’s sector groups. Industry experts will be sharing their knowledge, compassion, skill, creativity and commitment to innovation along with effective sustainable techniques and best practices. Buyers, designers and merchandising teams will learn about the latest trends, customer service ideas and consumer research that will help increase in-store sales and keep customers coming back for more.
Details on the conference schedule, speaker profiles, Awards of Excellence Ceremony and registration fees will be posted soon.
PLUS! Now featuring MORE design demonstrations, NEW "Destination Inspiration Theatre" educational sessions and adjusted show hours
Exhibiting at EXPO 2012 puts you face to face with close to 2,500 of Canada’s leading independent retail garden centre owners, floral retailers and buyers from some of the leading mass merchant operations that feature outdoor and live good categories. Your market penetration and sales potential in Canada’s largest horticultural market place will expand when you exhibit at EXPO 2012.
SHOW DATES & HOURS:
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
North Building, Hall I & J, Toronto Congress Centre
650 Dixon Rd
Toronto, Ontario M9W 1J1
CONTACT US:
Head Office Telephone: 905-875-1805 x2366
Toll Free in North America: 1-800-265-5656 x 2366
Show Office Telephone: 416-848-4141 – October 15 – 18, 2012 only
WHO EXHIBITS AT EXPO:
EXPO offers growers, manufacturers and distributors an optimally timed event to showcase their horticulture and floriculture related products.
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WHO ATTENDS EXPO:
66.4% are decision-makers
11.5% are members of a buying team
13.0% recommend products and services
50.1% made a purchase between $100 - $25,000 at Expo 2011
1.6% made a purchase greater than $25,000 at Expo 2011
Delegates spending plans for the three months after the close Expo 2011:
13.4% plan to spend $1000
18.1% plan to spend $1001 - $2500
8.7% plan to spend $2501 - $5000
14.2% plan to spend $5001 – $25,000
15.7% plan to spend $25,001 - $100,000
4.7% plan to spend over $100,000
61.8% of EXPO 2011 delegates plan to attend Expo 2012
70.7% of EXPO 2011 delegates plan to recommend Expo 2012 to colleagues
SHOW BUSINESS, EVENTS, FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS:
Breakfast Event
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Hosted by Landscape Ontario’s Garden Centre Sector Group
TICKETED EVENT – Details coming soon.
Welcome Party - (
trade show badge required for entry)
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Networking reception, hosted by the show committee, to connect vendors and delegates in a lively show environment.
Breakfast Event Thursday, October 18, 2012
Hosted by Landscape Ontario’s Interior Plantscape Sector Group
TICKETED EVENT – Details coming soon.
Destination Inspiration Theatre
October 17 – 18, 2012 Show Hours
An exquisitely designed educational platform and peer meeting centre.
Floral Displays
October 17 – 18, 2012 Show Hours
Landscape Ontario Resource Centre
October 17 - 18, 2012 Show Hours
To learn more about the association visit booth 648. Get updates on the new retail certification program and the retail garden centre employee manual that can be customized for your store. Discover the rewards of being a member of Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association.
New Product Showcase Show Hours
October 17 – 18, 2012
For many delegates, the New Product Showcase is the number one reason to visit EXPO. You’ll see new varieties of plants, and products. You’ll also have a chance to vote on the Peoples’ Choice Award.
SHOW COMMITTEE: Experienced and Trusted Advisors
Landscape Ontario’s show committee collaborates with staff to share ideas and insights guaranteeing that as producers of EXPO 2012 we understand your needs. They evaluate services, operations, sales and provide awareness of market trends so that you are better served.
Beth Edney, CLD, Show Committee Chair, Designs By The Yard,Toronto, Ont.
Terry Childs, Show Committee, Vice Chair, Expo, Nature’s Way Landscaping, Gananoque,Ont.
Brian Cocks, CLT, Vice Chair, Congress, Brian Cocks Nursery, Winona, Ont.
Scott Beaudoin, Manchester Products, Cambridge Ont.
David Braun, LO Provincial Board Liaison, Braun Nursery Limited, Mount Hope, Ont.
Doug Coote, D.G. Coote Enterprises, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Paul DeGroot, Connon Nurseries/NVK Holdings Inc, Millgrove, Ont.
Barry Dickson, B.R. Dickson Equipment, Burlington, Ont.
Nathan Helder, Gelderman Landscaping Ltd, Waterdown, Ont.
Michael Laporte, CHT, Clearview Nursery Ltd, Wasaga Beach,Ont.
Brian Lofgren, Past Committee Chair, Horta-Craft Limited, Strathroy, Ont.
Bob McCannell, Georgina Garden Centre, Oakville, Ont.
Klaas Sikkema, Alumni, Fergus, Ont.
Nick Solty, Solty & Sons Ltd, Cookstown, Ont.
Jack Vanderee, CLT, Boot’s Landscaping & Maintenance Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ont.
Monica van Maris, Van Maris Holdings, Stouffville, Ont.
Evie Isenberg, Canadian Fence Industry Association, Toronto, Ont.