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MAY<br />
<strong>2024</strong><br />
<strong>Tackle</strong><strong>Trade</strong><br />
www.tackletradeworld.com<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Editor:<br />
John Hunter<br />
04<br />
+44 7990 542958<br />
john.hunter@dhpub.co.uk<br />
A journalist all his life and with 20-plus years<br />
of international business magazine experience,<br />
John was the founding editor of TTW and has<br />
now returned to the helm. He has helped<br />
many brands launch and grow over the years<br />
through B2B publications and via his own<br />
consultancy business.<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
North America:<br />
Bart Manganiello<br />
+1 914 722 7601<br />
bartalm@optonline.net<br />
For over 38 years, Bart has been working with<br />
trade magazines, 34 in the tackle industry.<br />
Since 2001, he has been TTW’s North American<br />
Director, providing the best communication<br />
programs to companies, helping them connect<br />
with current and prospective trade partners<br />
around the world.<br />
Rest Of The <strong>World</strong>:<br />
Guido Knegt<br />
+39 3475036436<br />
guido.knegt@dhpub.co.uk<br />
A born and bred Dutchman, he spent five<br />
years travelling the world as a scuba-diving<br />
instructor and English teacher before settling<br />
down in Sardinia. Guido previously worked for<br />
TTW between 2014 and 2017.<br />
China: Robert Li<br />
Li Ziwei<br />
+86 13451914155<br />
robert.li365@gmail.com<br />
Li Ziwei (Robert) has been working as news<br />
editor for over 20 years. He founded the most<br />
influential Chinese fishing forum in the Straits<br />
and successfully organised many industry<br />
events. His love for culture and tourism has led<br />
him to devote his entire life to the exchanges<br />
between China and southeast Asia.<br />
Magazine Manager<br />
Justin Fox<br />
+44 7813 327966<br />
justin.fox@dhpub.co.uk<br />
A hugely experienced communicator with<br />
more than 20 years at parent company DHP,<br />
Justin knows what it takes to grow brands<br />
and businesses across the tackle sector.<br />
Sub Editor: David Haynes<br />
Art Editor: Paul Evans<br />
Editorial Design: Brad Sharp<br />
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www.tackletradeworld.com<br />
THE SUMMIT OF<br />
OUR BUSINESS<br />
EXPECTATIONS<br />
It seems that angling summits are the latest<br />
‘thing’ doing the rounds in the tackle trade.<br />
We can’t move for them!<br />
While the American Sportfishing Association<br />
has been running its Sportfishing Summit in the<br />
USA for over two decades to great acclaim, the<br />
concept is a little newer for two other industry<br />
organisations.<br />
After a poorly backed Confluence trade<br />
show in Salt Lake City in 2023, the American<br />
Fly Fishing <strong>Trade</strong> Association (AFFTA)<br />
is dispensing with the show element for<br />
its <strong>2024</strong> Confluence, instead introducing a<br />
similar summit concept, offering networking<br />
opportunities and business seminars and<br />
discussions.<br />
And now it seems the European Fishing<br />
<strong>Tackle</strong> <strong>Trade</strong> Association (EFTTA) will be<br />
exploring the idea too, perhaps towards the<br />
end of this year, before adding into its own<br />
EFTTEX 2025 trade show offering the<br />
following year.<br />
So will these work? Well, the ASA has<br />
actually been holding meetings for its leadership<br />
and members since 1933, although it was back<br />
in 2002 that the gathering was revamped and<br />
rebranded as the Sportfishing Summit.<br />
The concept was simple – throw open your<br />
doors to the wider sportfishing trade community,<br />
encourage more meaningful conversations at all<br />
levels about the future of our sport and how we<br />
can all derive greater benefits from our efforts.<br />
At the same time, throw in a good few social<br />
and educational events and you can attract a<br />
veritable who’s who of the industry.<br />
The Confluence NOLA <strong>2024</strong> (it’s being held John Hunter<br />
in New Orleans, Louisiana) will be a place for Editor<br />
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the fly fishing industry to come together, have<br />
those important conversations as a whole and<br />
individually, while strengthening the industry<br />
and businesses, with educational talks and a<br />
sounding board for AFFTA to hear thoughts<br />
from its members.<br />
Naturally, both of these summits usually also<br />
take place in cool places where the fishing is<br />
good and visitors can appreciate the natural<br />
environment which the organisations are<br />
constantly championing – it’s a smart way of<br />
encouraging attendance.<br />
Quite what the plans are for EFTTA’s<br />
Angling Summit later this year, few details have<br />
yet been released.<br />
But I suspect it will be in a popular central<br />
European location, making it easy to get to,<br />
with a mix of round-table discussions, business<br />
advice and talks and perhaps even a few industry<br />
awards thrown in.<br />
It will be interesting to see if the European<br />
tackle trade embraces such a concept and is<br />
willing to get into its cars or jump on trains/<br />
planes to attend.<br />
While EFTTA and the ASA plan on backing<br />
or running trade shows in addition, AFFTA’s<br />
Confluence follows the demise of the IFTD<br />
show.<br />
However, I wouldn’t mind betting it won’t<br />
be long before brand representatives there are<br />
encouraging attendees to spend a little time<br />
discussing or looking at their new products or<br />
launches.<br />
<strong>May</strong>be things will go full circle...