Trasimeno Blues Festival 2026 merch for sponsors, partners and visiting teams in Umbria

Merch planning for Trasimeno Blues Festival 2026 sponsors and partners

Dates

15 – 19 July 2026 (summer blues festival, Trasimeno Blues)

Venue

Tuoro sul Trasimeno (PG), Umbria, Italy

The Trasimeno Blues Festival is one of the longest-running blues festivals in central Italy, held every July on the shores of Lake Trasimeno in Tuoro sul Trasimeno, in the province of Perugia. The festival is organised by the Associazione Trasimeno Blues with the support of institutional partners, the Region of Umbria, the Municipality of Tuoro sul Trasimeno and a small group of long-standing corporate sponsors. Across its multi-evening calendar the festival stages Italian and international blues artists in fully-staged evening concerts, side-stage acoustic sets and a parallel programme of jams, workshops and community events around the lake.

The audience profile is a faithful mix of blues enthusiasts, summer visitors to Lake Trasimeno, returning season ticket holders and travelling music fans. For sponsors and partner brands, the merch programme is coordinated through the Associazione's institutional relations office and through each sponsor's own marketing lead. From the Milan hub, Corp-Merch.IT handles the full cycle: brief collection, art adaptation, district-level producer qualification (Umbrian and Tuscan paper mills for FSC programmes, Maniago for special editions and Cortona leather workshops for small leather accessories and numbered keepsakes), a physical pre-production sample and a 48-hour response window from brief to structured proposal.

For Italian clients with VAT registration, the invoice goes out via the Italian Revenue Agency's Sistema di Interscambio (SdI) with 22% IVA applied in EUR; reverse charge for intra-EU buyers, split payment for public entities, and Codice Destinatario / PEC for electronic delivery. International clients can settle in USD, GBP or CHF at the invoice-day exchange rate. Deliveries to the Trasimeno area are routed through the Milan hub with BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express Italy. For the summer-peak period the local couriers operate on extended windows into the evening and the lake-side road between Tuoro and Passignano has special-event traffic rules coordinated with the local police.

Production and venue logistics for Trasimeno Blues

Confirm artwork, quantities, packaging and the named on-site recipient before production begins. Delivery address, recipient, time window and phone contact need to be cross-checked against the calendar produced by the Associazione Trasimeno Blues and by each sponsor's marketing lead: the festival main stage sits on the lakeside of Tuoro with a single front-of-house entrance for the public and a separate rear access for trucks and crew. The festival opens in mid-July and runs over five evenings, with peak traffic on weekend nights; deliveries to the venue need to be planned around the day's sound-check schedule and the night-time concert calendar.

For an Italian programme routed through Milan, deliveries are consolidated at the hub and dispatched to the Trasimeno area with 24-48 hour windows via BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express. For programmes above 1,000 pieces we offer appointment delivery with phone pre-notice and, on request, on-site set-up by our staff at the venue. For clients subject to CSRD reporting (D.Lgs. 125/2024) we provide a sustainability data sheet per PO with Scope 3 CO₂e estimates per GHG Protocol on the Milan–Trasimeno lane and from the named production districts.

Brief, art adaptation and production tiers

The Trasimeno Blues programme brief opens with a dedicated kick-off where we collect the sponsor's visual references, the iconography of the edition, the items to be quoted and the quantities per recipient (festival crew, sponsor VIPs, partner-brand guests, backstage bands, hospitality attendees). Corp-Merch.IT responds with a structured proposal within 48 business hours, complete with a physical sample for the most critical pieces (Cortona leather wristbands, ceramic keepsakes, small leather accessories), technical sheets for serial items and a bill of materials with prices and MOQ by tier: starter (50-249 pieces per code), standard (250-999), enterprise (1,000-4,999), corporate (5,000+). For sponsors that support both the summer blues festival and the autumn blues-week programming of the Associazione we set up an annual supply contract with per-edition reviews and dedicated volume discounts.

On the artwork side we receive the sponsor's master files (AI, EPS, PDF/X-4, CMYK images at 300 dpi) and manage art adaptation for the different decoration methods: digital print on cotton and paper, embroidery on textiles, hot stamping on leather, pad printing and laser engraving on metals and ceramic for accessories, screen-printing on paper programmes and boxes. For graphics that require multiple versions (front-of-house, sponsor tiers, season ticket holders, audience, backstage) we manage versioning and intermediate approvals. Physical samples are produced and shipped for approval by the fifth week of the brief; for Cortona leather goods, Faenza ceramic keepsakes and custom small leather goods timelines extend by 1-2 weeks depending on craftsmanship complexity.

Standard commercial terms are 30 days invoice date, 10% deposit on first order for new clients, and improved terms after the first 90 days of history. The invoice is issued in EUR with 22% IVA via SdI; for international sponsors conversion and settlement in USD, GBP or CHF is available at the invoice-day exchange rate, alongside support for intra-EU reverse charge and split payment for public entities. Corp-Merch.IT is an Italian VAT operator registered on VIES for intra-Community transactions and carries product liability insurance and transport coverage on all lots dispatched from the Milan hub.

Frequently asked questions

Certifications, quality and lot traceability

For sponsors and partner brands presenting a Trasimeno Blues merch programme, coherence between visual identity and raw materials is integral to the offering. We work with Italian producers operating under ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental management) and SA8000 or equivalent for social responsibility, and holding the main product certifications required by the segment: OEKO-TEX Standard 100 on skin-contact textiles (cotton for T-shirts and shoppers), GOTS on organic cotton, GRS on recycled polyester, FSC on paper and packaging (programmes, labels, boxes), EU Ecolabel on a range of textile and stationery items.

For Cortona leather goods the producer can issue leather traceability, tannery origin (Italian/European/extra-EU), and REACH compliance (Reg. CE 1907/2006) with an updated SVHC declaration. For Faenza ceramic keepsakes the producer keeps the Italian origin certificate and operates under the D.Lgs. 152/2006 environmental compliance rules. On the packaging side, paper-product manufacturers offer FSC or PEFC options and, on request, plastic-free with vegetable-based inks, in line with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation 2025/40.

For clients subject to CSRD reporting (D.Lgs. 125/2024, transposing Directive (EU) 2022/2464) we integrate into the PO a sustainability data sheet with Scope 3 CO₂e estimate per GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain, broken down by material (cotton, leather, ceramic, paper) and by logistics lane (Cortona–Milan–Trasimeno, Faenza–Milan–Trasimeno, Maniago–Milan–Trasimeno, Scandicci–Milan–Trasimeno), plus ESRS E1 (Climate Change), E5 (Resource Use) and S2 (Workers in the Value Chain) references for the client's sustainability balance sheet. On request we also include packaging-waste reporting submitted to CONAI for post-consumer material traceability. For extra-EU shipments we operate as AEOF and prepare CMR, packing lists and origin declarations. All invoices are issued in EUR with 22% IVA via SdI and can be settled in USD, CHF or GBP for international sponsors.