Childrens fashion trade news statement from Playtime re next editions just released and reproduced below.
We are living in the most uncertain of times, nobody knows how long the current circumstances will last but this is an offering towards returning to commerce which we will have to just wait and see how things are towards the summer months.
I’ve reproduced the email in full below.
“PLAYTIME– Press release
We are living in exceptional times – we have never experienced anything like this in the past – and no one is able to say exactly what the results will be. At this point, we know that almost all businesses will suffer from it, that many retailers will have to face at least two months without business, and that some brands will not be paid for deliveries already made, nor will they be able to pay their suppliers.
It is evident from this point on that almost all the sectors of the economy will be impacted.
Numerous brands have already signed up for the next edition of our trade shows. However, we have decided after much deliberating, that in good conscience, we cannot accept that a business would profit from the losses being felt by everyone else as we suffer through these exceptional times.
Playtime is a small family business that has always been devoted to all the individuals in this profession, and a small business has a soul! Perhaps this is the time to reach out even further to each other and engage in a new type of relationship in which we don’t just work as individual entities, but rather all together as parts of a whole.
For all these reasons, we have decided to conduct ourselves this season as a non-profit business.
We are making this choice so that everyone can survive through this period and we will continue to support it until the economy is stable again. We are aware that this is placing us at risk, but aren’t we all at risk at the moment?! Let us act together and refuse the “survival mode” that pushes people to grab all the pasta from the shelves in the supermarket in order to survive alone!
Specifically, we are doing the following:
1. A discount of 20-25% on all booths in Playtime Paris and New York* (for Shanghai, we are working on a financial help for international exhibitors who must travel)
2. A discount of 50% for a subscription to the Playtime digital platform (