The Marketplace Conference is an annual event focused on all things marketplaces and brings together marketplace entrepreneurs, apparel & textile manufacturers, buying houses, apparel brands & retailers. It provides a platform to marketplace teams to interact with the industry at large for exchanging knowhow and best practices and gets a better understanding of the customers’ expectation. The event will witness top 25 apparel marketplaces showcasing their latest technology and how they are disrupting & digitizing the supply chain. The event will be held on 29th September 2022 at Le Meridien Gurgaon.

1. Presented by:
29th September 2022,
Le Méridien, Gurgaon

2. B2B marketplaces are exploding onto
the scene, signaling a disruption of
procurement landscape by creating value
for not only apparel retailers, brands and
the manufacturers, but also the entire
textile supply chain - by improving their
overall supply-chain effectiveness decision
making through tech enabled tools.
According to a McKinsey report, 70% of
B2B decision makers said they are open
to making remote purchase in excess of
US$ 50,000 and around 30% are ready to
spend more than US $ 500,000.
Courtesy: The Economic Times (26th December, 2021)
India’s B2B e-commerce market is
one of the fastest-growing in the
world, and is expected to reach over
US $1 trillion by 2024,” said John
Curtius, a partner at Tiger Global,
which has invested in several Indian
B2B platforms.

3. Apparel Resources (AR) is providing a platform
to all the stakeholders of the apparel industry
to come together and discuss the current
challenges, opportunities and future of the
online marketplaces in India. This event will offer
an opportunity to the participants to not only
network, discuss and showcase their platform
to the apparel and textile value chain but also
exchange info and knowledge.
Overview

4. Apparel Resources is a 30-years-old fashion media
house that understands the very pulse of the
apparel and fashion industry. It is the publisher of
Apparel Online that has dedicated issues for India,
Bangladesh and Vietnam. Stitchworld, the only
fashion technology magazine for the region, is also
published under the AR platform. Apparel Resources
is also the organiser of Apparel Sourcing Week which
is a premium sourcing platform for Indian and global
brands and retailers.
Why Apparel Resources?

5. Launch new products
Great opportunity to increase sales
Secure alliance & joint ventures with the leading
suppliers in the industry
Face-to-face contact – The most persuasive form
of selling & building customer relationships
Opportunity to evaluate your products against competitiors
& also understand their products offerings
Expand your market share, conduct business & form strategic partnerships
with brands, retailers, manufacturers & investors
Step Up with The Marketplace Conference

6. The Marketplace Conference is an annual event focused on all things related to marketplaces
and brings together marketplace entrepreneurs, apparel & textile manufacturers, buying
houses, apparel brands & retailers. It provides a platform to marketplace teams to interact
with the industry at large for exchanging the know-how and best practices and to get a better
understanding of the customers’ expectations.
The event will witness top 25 apparel marketplaces showcasing their latest technology
and how they are disrupting & digitizing the supply chain. The event will be held on 29th
September 2022 at Le Meridian, Gurgaon.
8+
Sessions
15+
Speakers
1000+
Attendees
25+
Exhibitors
The Marketplace Conference

7. The advantages of a B2B marketplace for buyers and suppliers:
• They offer a platform to do business in a transparent environment where the factories are certified and
buyers are financially credit worthy
• A place without any hindrance to geographical barriers
• It also provides access to new suppliers, faster approvals for ordering processes and delivery tracking
• The tech-enabled marketplaces also exist to help procurement of raw material which help the partners
cost the product more constructively so that each one can benefit
The Marketplace Conference: Advantages
Participating Stakeholders:
Apparel & Home
Brands & Retailers
Apparel,
Textile & Home
Manufacturers
Buying Houses Marketplaces Investors Policymakers

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services
Priceless connections Marketing campaign
Thought leadership
Partnerships
Brand awareness
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9. The Marketplace Conference: Agenda
Panel Discussions:
Debate on industry’s
future challenges and
opportunities
Roundtables:
Closed door discussions
& conversations
Networking: Network
with industry leaders
and businesses
Exhibition Showcase:
Showcase products
and services to the
industry
“One must remember, for every
B2C transaction, there are 6-10
B2B transactions happening in the
background.”
– Rahul Garg, Founder-CEO, Moglix

10. Marketplaces: What’s the future?
Future challenges & opportunities
for Marketplace adoption in India
Small Orders vs. Volume: How
capable is an online marketplace?
Sustainability: How marketplaces
are building a sustainable eco-
system for workers/artisans
Supply Chain Transparency
& Responsible Sourcing:
A new norm for marketplaces
How and why businesses are
making a shift from physical to
virtual for their buying and sourcing
needs
Product Development Assistance:
The ease of creation onmarketplaces
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11. Conference:
Panel discussions,workshops
and spotlight sessions on
industry-theme based topics
Exhibition:
Showcase your products & services
to the target audience & Network
with industry professionals
Our Offerings

12. Presented by:
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AGENDA
29th September 2022, Le Méridien, Gurgaon

13. The influx of B2B marketplaces in the
fashion industry is creating a disruptive
wave in the procurement landscape.
Marketplaces’ endeavor is to create value
for not only apparel retailers, brands and
the manufacturers but the entire textile
supply chain - by improving their overall
supply-chain effectiveness decision making
through Tech enabled tools.
The panelists will discuss decoding
marketplace to understand its working and
complexities as well as reasons why it is
gaining prominence all over the world.
Retailers, manufacturers and suppliers in apparel
and textile industry look for convenient channels
to reach a large audience for their buying/
sourcing needs as well as cut down marketing
and operating costs. Therefore, leveraging the
right marketplace ensures reduced supply chain
costs, product costs via enhanced efficiencies,
and increase in revenues due to timely delivery
as well as reduced process costs associated to
managing the transaction and the list goes on.
The key focus of the experts in this session
will be to impart a clear understanding of
marketplace in those vendors who want to go
online and find new growth avenues.
Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
12:00 - 13:00 13:45 - 14:45
Decoding Marketplaces:
What is it and how it works?
Choosing the right marketplace

14. Financial transactions through online marketplaces
were considered to be vulnerable to fraud
risks. More so, procurement of materials online
is considered risky due to concerns over
performance, availability, and security of the
materials purchased as sellers may not disclose
data related to the product quality, legality of use,
and warranty resulting into operational failure
sometimes.
Being a part of the session will make you
understand how the new-age B2B marketplaces
are addressing these issues head-on, while
ensuring excellence in finances and operations at
all times.
What does the future of B2B marketplaces hold?
While it’s been established that the B2B marketplace
users prefer remote human interactions or digital
self-service due to reduced travel expenses, ease of
scheduling, and safety, these marketplaces need to
evolve and continuously add value for its users by
incorporating more tech-interventions to explore
future trends in fashion retail and manufacturing
business that offer wider opportunities to the
associated companies.
The panel discussion aims at talking about possible
integration of concepts such as fashion in metaverse,
digital twin etc. in the marketplaces that are missing
today but there is great potential to capture this
untapped market.
Spotlight Session Panel Discussion
14:00 - 14:30
15:00 - 16:00
Bringing financial and operational
excellence in your transactions
Future of Marketplaces

15. As sustainability has moved from a mere concept
to become a norm in the fashion industry, B2B
marketplaces are integrating tools in their
platforms that help vendors and buyers in
responsible sourcing, assist in end-to-end visibility,
and build a sustainable eco-system for workers/
artisans through better living wages.
The discussion in this session will highlight all
efforts that B2B marketplaces are making to
help thousands of companies source and bring
products to market with more sustainable materials
and practices.
Online B2B marketplace/platforms are designed to
address key prolonged issues of the fashion industry
as they cater to the entire supply chain of fashion –
right from farm to fashion retail. Being cost and time
efficient is a key requisite in fashion business and
online marketplaces, with all the integrated tools,
keep transparency aspect on top so as to ensure that
bottlenecks in any process can be viewed in real time
and corrected instantly.
The speaker in this session will help industry
understand how streamlining end-to-end processes
on a common platform enable companies become
more efficient on two critical parameters – cost and
time.
Panel Discussion Spotlight Session
16:15 - 17:15 15:00 - 15:30
Ensuring sustainable supply chain is
a new norm for marketplaces
Farm to Fashion apparel marketplaces make
you cost and time efficient

16. www.apparelresources.com
www.themarketplaceconference.com
Bhumica Bansal
+91 9810500644
bbansal@apparelresources.com
Nitish Varshney
+91 8800431295
nvarshney@stitchworld.net
Geetanshi Kandwal
+91 7003673360
gkandwal@apparelresources.com
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