The Midwest Pantry Local Food & Gift Show is a private event, designed to connect wholesale buyers with qualified, professional, local producers. Taking place twice each year, the Local Food & Gift Show has proven to be a time and cost effective way for local producers and retail store owners and wholesale buyers to establish business relationships that benefit both businesses and our local economy. Locally sourced products continue to be a fast growing sector in both gift and grocery, yet finding store ready products available in wholesale quantities can be time consuming. The Midwest Pantry Local Food & Gift Show is a private event, designed to connect wholesale buyers with qualified, professional, local producers.

1. Hello, we’re Midwest Pantry!

2. We are a collective of local food
producers from America’s Heartland.

3. We created the
Local Food & Gift Show

4. Which showcases Midwest-made
products to be sold to wholesale
buyers from across the region.

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The Local Food & Gift Show is a little
different than the average tradeshow.

6. It’s an intimate experience…

7. Crafted to connect quality producers
and motivated wholesale buyers

8. To establish business relationships
that benefit both businesses.

9. We know wholesale buyers are busy.

10. Even as we are growing, we know we
must make it worth the buyers time

11. So, we vet producers at our Shows:
1) They must be licensed & insured

12. 2) They must be unique;
we minimize dupes to maximize variety

13. 3) They must be shelf-ready,
with great packaging & a UPC Code

14. We’ve been doing this for a while…
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15. We started organizing groups at the
Food & Wine Show here in Mpls...

16. And at one of the expensive
tradeshows in Chicago...

17. It worked…
!
We saved $$ and proved a group of
producers can attract attention!

18. So we grew, starting a “pop-up” show

19. It worked!
So…

20. We grew again, securing the Grain Belt
Bottling House and assembling 35-40
local producers, and attracting over 100
buyers…twice in 2014!

21. It’s working.
We’re turning heads...

22. We’re attracting media...

23. We’re attracting buyers…
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24. We’re attracting local producers…

25. It’s working.
Business relationships are forging...

26. It’s working for new producers...
“Including new accounts landed at the recent Fall Show, a full 60% of Cool
Jerk’s wholesale accounts have been acquired from Midwest Pantry’s Show”
-- Owner Mali Kouanchao, Cool Jerk

27. It’s working for experienced producers
“The costs of most wholesale shows run in the thousands of dollars,
making it difficult for smaller producers to attend and get access to
large groups of buyers. We need a show like this in Minneapolis.”
-- Owner Michael Sedlacek, WorkerB

28. …and it’s working for show sponsors
“We are a small business disrupting a
entrenched industry with similar values [to
Midwest Pantry]. As Johnson-Turner works
to make the practice of law more accessible
to businesses and people in our region, we
are finding tremendous value by placing our
brand at Midwest Pantry’s shows.”
-- Owner Erin Turner,
Johnson-Turner Law

29. It’s working.
We continue to build & grow.

30. Together we can grow the local food
community in America’s Heartland.

31. Together we can return local food to
the mainstream & make it sustainable.

32. Our next get together…
Local Food & Gift Show
Monday, March 16th, 2015
Minneapolis, MN

33. We’re Midwest Pantry

34. Grow with us!
!
midwestpantry@gmail.com

35. !
!
Thank you