Hotelympia 2014

Hotelympia is the UK’s largest foodservice and hospitality exhibition and the most effective platform to reach senior buyers from across the industry. Hotelympi...

Harry Fielder

By Harry Fielder

CEO & Co-Founder

Harry is our fearless leader aka CEO at Umi. He's half developer, half marketer so his key role is turning our clients business goals into robust software and creative marketing solutions. When not in the office you'll find him out and about sharing his knowledge and insights to the masses at a multitude of events. In his free time he's still about the tech and most likely tinkering away with his custom PC. Side note: he's quite tall.

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Hotelympia is the UK’s largest foodservice and hospitality exhibition and the most effective platform to reach senior buyers from across the industry. Hotelympia 2014 has inspired new ideas for many businesses; it is the best place to find new products and services from a variety of businesses.
The event had many benefits such as networking with existing contacts but also gaining new ones. Improving business performances, source new ideas and create new innovative products and expanding business awareness.
The variety of companies supplying their products ranged from:

  • Food & drink, including wine
  • Speciality food products
  • All types of catering equipment
  • Tableware
  • Waste solutions & services
  • Indoor and outdoor furniture, soft furnishings and all things decor and design
  • Bathroom & spa products including guest amenities
  • Hospitality technology solutions
  • Hygiene and cleaning products

Events included live cooking performances, but more importantly lots of delicious food samples for everyone to try out. The event ran from 28 th April till 1 st of May, a 4 day event. Our CEO Steve Lowy was on the panel at Hotelympia talk on ‘The Connected Customer’ in the HOSPACE Technology hub on 30 th April which has a large turnout of hotel and restaurant owners keen to find out more about the goings on in the digital world in hospitality.
Umi Digital had its own stand number 4218 and the Sales Team represented the business along with the CEO Steve. It was a great venture for the two new sales team members Samson & Charlotte as they were thrown straight into the deep end dealing with potential clients on a face to face basis and seeing all the potential partnerships but also competition faced within the business.