Should you have any questions or queries before completing the Trader Application Form, please feel free to email traders@bush-fire.com
Trading Opportunities 2023:
1. The Global Food Village: The MTN Bushfire Global Food Village welcomes seasoned vendors with locally sourced and produced foods offering a culturally diverse gourmet street food experience. Food traders are encouraged to provide a pop-up restaurant experience, experiment with their menu and offer high quality and flavorsome food.
2. The Market Place:This space is designed for the ethical consumer, with each company or artisan contributing in a positive way to the environment and their communities. Products are preferred handmade from recycled, natural and environmentally friendly materials, and selected against strict criteria based on our #GREENYOURFIRE mandate and commitment towards reducing single-use plastic materials.
3. The Kidzone: The festival is a family-friendly`and the kidzone is a secure adventurous space filled with stimulating and fun-filled activities ranging from storytelling, sculpting and music workshops to high energy lawn games. Each year the festival works with a special theme for the Kidzone that inspires creativity, enegagement and skills development for young people of all ages, overseen by experienced, vetted child care workers.
4. Experiential Services: Services that enhances the festival experience for MTN Bushfire guests.
5. Marketing activation: Invites brands and companies looking to creatively drive sales and exposure through engaging activations.
1. Global food village stall fees:
The MTN Bushfire Global Food Village stall fee is ZAR 3500.00 PLUS 10% commission on your total gross turnover, for the 3-day duration of the festival.
Your stall fee includes:
- 4x4m stall space
- Festival Trading license
- Up to 8 trader tickets
- Trader Parking sticker
- Basic Electricity (dependent on your requirement, it could cost more!)
- Official trader stamp
2. The Market Place Stall fees:
The MTN Bushfire Marketplace stall fee is ZAR 2850.00 PLUS 10% commission on your total gross turnover, for the 3-day duration of the festival.
Your stall fee includes:
- 3x3m stall with roofing
- Festival Trading License
- Up to 4 trader tickets
- Trader Parking Sticker
- Basic Electricity (dependent on your requirement, it could cost more!)
- Official trader stamp
3. The Kidzone Stall fees:
The MTN Bushfire Kidzone stall fee is ZAR 1500.00 PLUS 10% commission on your total gross turnover, for 2 days of the festival.
Your stall fee includes:
- 3x3m open air stall space (traders are encouraged to get creative with their shade cover, unfortunately no branded gazebo’s allowed)
- Festival Trading License
- Up to 4 trader tickets
- Trader parking sticker
- Basic Electricity (dependent on your requirement, it could cost more!)
- Official trader stamp
4. Experiential Service Fees *NEW*
The MTN Bushfire Service provider Stall fee is ZAR 2500 PLUS 10% commission on your total gross turnover, for the 3-day duration of the festival.
Your stall fee includes:
- 3x3m open air stall space. [traders are encouraged to get creative with their shade cover, unfortunately no branded gazebo’s allowed]
- Festival Trading License
- Up to 6 trader tickets
- Trader parking sticker
- Basic Electricity
- Official trader stamp
5. Marketing Activation Fees *NEW*
For your MTN Bushfire Marketing Activation Stall Fees you will need to get directly in touch with our MTN Marketing Team! This is more dependent on your vision, scale and size of activation space needed. Get involved, and send us your ideas, should your application be successful, the Bushfire marketing team will send you a list of the various price packages. MTN Bushfire Marketing Activation Packages are valued from E30 000 and upwards. [Contact Bushfire Marketing Manager, Bongani Dlamini: marketing@bush-fire.com with your ideas.]
MTN Bushfire 2023 Trading Hours:
- Global Food Village: Friday:5.30pm-3am|Saturday: 9am-4am|Sunday: 9am-6pm
- MTN Bushfire Marketplace: Friday: 5.30pm – 10pm| Saturday: 9am – 10pm|Sunday: 9am – 6pm
- MTN Bushfire Kidzone: Saturday: 9am – 6pm| Sunday: 9am – 6pm
- Experiential Services: Friday:5.30pm-3am|Saturday: 9am-4am|Sunday: 9am-6pm
- Marketing Activations: Dependent on your activation concept.
General Information for the process of application:
- Application closing date is 27 February 2023 and final selection will be made by 27 March 2023.
- Stall spaces at MTN Bushfire are limited and successful applications are unfortunately not guaranteed as we receive so many applications. Only successful applicants will be contacted with an offer to trade.
- Importantly, stall payment must be made within 14 days to secure your spot.(commission on your gross sales will be charged after the event,via the cashless system.)
- MTN Bushfire is a 100% cashless environment. This means all vendor business transactions are required to use this system for their trade within the festival grounds and campsite areas. There is plenty info online and training will be provided closer to the event. Important to know, any stall holder / vendors seen accepting cash will be penalized and shut down immediately for non-compliance.
- For this application, stall applicants are assessed on the basis of quality and uniqueness, creativity, experience, considered professional setup as well as quality customer service, so give it your best! Its all about creating experience!
- ALL food vendors will be assessed by health inspectors during the festival and will be requested to attain and present a health and safety compliance certificate. (we can give you more info on this later)
- Successful MTN Bushfire Stall applicants will be required to read and understand various information packs that will be sent to you leading up to the festival.