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For artisan gelato, pastry, bakery, confectionery and specialty coffee brands exhibiting at SIGEP in January 2027 who need branded apparel, booth giveaways, lead-capture gifts and VIP kits ready on stand at Rimini Expo Centre — produced through the Rimini–Emilia hub of Corp-Merch.IT and delivered across Italy and the Adriatic export markets.
SIGEP is the international reference trade show for artisan gelato, pastry, bakery, confectionery and the coffee world, organised each January by Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) at the Rimini Expo Centre. The fair brings together Italian gelato masters, pastry chefs, bakery brands, specialty coffee roasters, equipment makers and ingredient houses in a single venue, with international buyers visiting from across Europe, the Gulf and Latin America. For an exhibitor team, that audience is four compressed days where artwork, quantities, packaging and the named on-stand recipient have to align long before the doors open — January in Rimini means cold-chain logistics and short daylight windows, so the merch programme has to be packed for delivery under winter Adriatic weather, not summer pace.
From the Rimini–Emilia hub, Corp-Merch.IT coordinates the full programme for Italian and international exhibitors coming into SIGEP: pre-production art adaptation, district-level producer selection, pre-production samples and a 48-hour response window from brief to structured proposal. The Rimini base puts us within an hour of the venue and inside the Emilia-Romagna district network — Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bologna for food-grade apparel, Binasco and Vigevano for hospitality footwear, Maniago for steel multi-tools, Brescia and Lumezzane for cutlery and barware, Empoli and Bovezzo for tasting glass, Scandicci and Carpi for leather and knitwear — so most runs stay inside Italy and meet exhibitor deadlines without transcontinental freight.
For exhibitors with Italian VAT registration (Partita IVA), the invoice is processed via the Sistema di Interscambio (SdI) with 22% IVA applied in EUR; reverse charge applies for intra-EU buyers with a valid VAT ID, split payment applies for public-sector stands and Codice Destinatario / PEC is used for electronic delivery. For non-EU exhibitors we can issue an invoice in EUR without Italian IVA under the relevant territorial rules, or a self-billed summary on request.
Branded aprons, polos, light layers and team jackets sized to each shift and host role on the stand, including pastry chefs, baristas, demo teams and the registration desk. Production stays inside the Emilia textile district with OEKO-TEX certified cotton, stain-resistant finishes and recycled-polyester options on request; apparel is labelled per size run, per role and per delivery day so the stand team does not have to sort on-site.
Lanyards, shoppers, notebooks, pens, key rings, badges and reusable bottles for fast booth hand-out on four show days. Quantities are planned against expected visitor numbers per day and packed in pre-counted bundles of 50 or 100 so a busy stand can replenish without inventory counts.
Recipe cards, tasting kits, mini corkscrews, bar accessories and desk accessories reserved for qualified buyer conversations. We routinely reserve a separate allocation for follow-up shipments to leads captured on the stand, dispatched from Rimini within 48 hours of a confirmed business card or scan.
Premium notebooks, drinkware and compact gift sets assembled by recipient tier and delivered by name. For international delegations from the Gulf and Latin America we can pre-print name cards and pack each kit against a master recipient list so the host team only confirms delivery, not assembly.
Confirm artwork, quantities, packaging and the named on-site recipient before production begins. Stand number, hall and dock-in slot must be checked against the current exhibitor manual issued by Italian Exhibition Group; Rimini Expo Centre is not an open receiving address for parcels and any address must be tied to a confirmed dock window. January weather on the Adriatic coast and the Rimini–Cesena–Riccione commuter traffic also affect delivery windows, so a hotel buffer in Rimini or Riccione or local delivery partner often makes sense alongside venue delivery.
For an Italian programme routed through the Rimini–Emilia hub, shipments are consolidated at the hub and dispatched by BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express Italy with 24–48 hour windows to most Italian postal codes. For programmes above 1,000 pieces we offer appointment delivery with phone pre-notice and, on request, on-site set-up by our staff. For international exhibitors coming in via Bologna or Rimini airports we can also pre-clear customs at Bologna cargo and route the last-mile through the same hub, so freight flows through one team.
For exhibitors subject to CSRD reporting under D.Lgs. 125/2024 we provide a sustainability data sheet per PO with Scope 3 CO₂e estimates per GHG Protocol on intra-Emilia-Romagna lanes; for foreign exhibitors that report under ESRS or national equivalents, the same sheet can be issued in English with EU and Italian district provenance.
Most SIGEP exhibitors are not based in Rimini, so the merch programme usually has to cross at least two production stages — district producer + Rimini hub + venue — without losing artwork control or packaging integrity. The Rimini hub absorbs that complexity: artwork files move from the client to the producer through a single approval chain, finished goods come back to the hub for QA, packing and labelling, and the final shipment leaves from one address tied to a confirmed dock window at the Expo Centre.
Districts we routinely draw from for SIGEP programmes: Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bologna for food-grade apparel and aprons; Binasco and Vigevano for hospitality footwear; Maniago for steel multi-tools; Brescia and Lumezzane for cutlery and barware; Empoli and Bovezzo for tasting glass; Scandicci for leather goods; Carpi for knitwear; Treviso for outerwear and team jackets. Where the brief calls for sustainable Italian souvenirs for international buyers, these districts also give the provenance story that an exhibitor can carry back into retail-account conversations.
For exhibitors who already work with their own producers in other EU countries, the Rimini hub can act as a finishing, packing and labelling hub only, which often removes a customs layer and keeps the programme under a single delivery chain.
Production inside the relevant districts also keeps the compliance chain short: each district producer in our network carries the chain of certifications � OEKO-TEX Standard 100, food-contact-grade silicone and stainless for tasting glass, MOCA / DM 21/2008 food-contact compliance for items touching consumables, EN 12875 dishwasher-safe labelling on request, GRS recycled content on request, Reach compliance, ISO 14001 for district manufacturers. For exhibitors needing Horeca-grade declarations for sale to HoReCa accounts, MOCA declarations can be attached per SKU on the PO.
For each PO we can attach a compliance bundle in Italian and English: OEKO-TEX lot certificate where requested, MOCA / DM 21/2008 food-contact declaration where the item touches consumables, Reach declaration for finishing chemicals, and a sustainability data sheet for exhibitors subject to D.Lgs. 125/2024 (CSRD) or to ESRS reporting on the foreign side. District provenance for the show: Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bologna (food-grade apparel, aprons), Binasco and Vigevano (hospitality footwear), Maniago (steel multi-tools), Brescia and Lumezzane (cutlery, barware), Empoli and Bovezzo (tasting glass), Scandicci (leather goods), Carpi (knitwear), Treviso (outerwear, team jackets).
The compliance bundle is delivered with the final shipment and stored on the Milan hub for a 24-month window in case the buyer needs a copy for a subsequent CSRD or HACCP audit. For HoReCa-grade declarations for sale to hospitality accounts, the same bundle can be made available per SKU on request before the production lock.
Six to eight weeks gives the safest choice of products and decoration methods. Shorter programmes are possible only after stock, branding methods and venue access are all confirmed.
Only when the organiser or venue has confirmed the dock window, hall access and named consignee. Many exhibitors split the shipment between Rimini Fiera and a hotel or local office in Rimini or Riccione.
Yes. Booth staff, general giveaways, qualified-lead gifts and VIP kits can be packed and labelled as separate allocations, tied to each audience and each delivery point.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps participating companies prepare their own merch. It does not organise, sponsor or represent SIGEP or Italian Exhibition Group.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier to participating companies. This page helps teams prepare their own merch for the event; it does not represent Italian Exhibition Group, Rimini Expo Centre or any sponsor of SIGEP.